 | Samuel White - Bible - 1709 - 550 pages
...copy after after tfie iiivifibli Original, whith ejtrfted in his own Chapter ' Mind. XL,. Ver. 1 5. Behold, the nations are AS A drop of a bucket, and Are counted at the fmatt dujt of the balance : behold, he takfth up the ifles as a very lettle thing."] All the... | |
 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...is he that fitteth upon the Circle of the Earth, and the Inhabitants thereof are as Gra(hoppers. d Behold, the Nations are as a drop of a Bucket, and are counted as the fmall Duft of the Balance : All the Inhabitants of the Earth are reputed as nothing before him ; and they are counted to him... | |
 | William Whiston - Bible and science - 1717 - 376 pages
...him in the Path of Judgment, and taught him Knowledge, and fhewed to him the Way of Underftanding ? Behold, the Nations are as a Drop of a Bucket, and are counted as the frnall Baft of the Balance : Behold, he taketh up the Jfles afs .a very little Thing. And Lebanon is... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Oratory - 1722 - 360 pages
...hath taught him ? — . . Behold the nations areas a drop of a bucket ; and are counted as the Jmall duft . : of the balance : behold he taketh up the ifles as a -very lit,6, tie thing. And Lebanon is notfufficient to burn ; nor the j^. tea/is thereof fufficient for... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Oratory - 1722 - 364 pages
...the Spirit of the Lord ; or being I 5. his counfeller hath taught him ? — Behold the nations are of the balance : behold he taketh up the ifles as a. very litas a drop of a bucket ; and arc counted as the fmall duji 16. tie thing. Jlnd Lebanon is not fuffident... | |
 | William Whiston - 1725 - 370 pages
...him in the Path of Judgment, and taught him Knowledge, and fhewed to him the Way of Underftanding ? Behold, the Nations are as a Drop of a Bucket, and are counted as thefmall Duft of the Balance : Behold, he taketh up the Ifles as a very little Thing. And Lehanon is... | |
 | English literature - 1753 - 750 pages
...of this JEHOVAH of the illiterate Jews ; oefore whom (to ufe this poet's own words) all other gods are as a drop of a Bucket, and are counted as the Jmall daß of the balance ? Had I been acquainted with this xvonderful volume, while I was writing... | |
 | James Hervey - Death - 1746 - 234 pages
...His Works, we rhuft neceflarily form very fcanty Conceptions of fhat fupreme Being, before whom all Nations are as a " Drop of a Bucket, and are counted as the fmall Duft «« of the Balance." deemcr. This is the. Chriftian's Natural 'Philofophy : And with regard to this Method of confidering... | |
 | Jeremiah Seed - 1747 - 488 pages
...GlafTeSt than the Imagination can reach, are but before him (in the Language of the Prophet Ifaiah) as a Drop of a Bucket, and are counted as the fmall Dufl of the Balance : Behold he taketh up the JJles, as a very little Thing : That is, the Ifles and... | |
 | James Hervey - Meditations - 1748 - 316 pages
...His Works, we muft neceffarily form, very fcanty Conceptions of that fupreme Being, before whom all Nations are. as a " Drop of a Bucket, [' and are counted as the fmall Duft of the Balance." .REFLECTION* o&a Jfisu.s as the great Ptojeaor »nd Archite&, that planned arid executed the amazing... | |
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Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 
