Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. The Works of John Donne - Page 27by John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839Full view - About this book
| Thomas Stackhouse - Christian life - 1760 - 370 pages
...Animals, that van: Variety of their Kinds, and the wonderful Inftinc~t o£ their Natures ; how the Stork knoweth her appointed Time, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Time of their Coming ; and, hy thefe Things, that are made and vifible, the irevifible... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1792 - 710 pages
...explained confidently on any othrr fuppofition. It was faid of old, that "the flork in the heavens knoweth her appointed time, and the turtle, and the crane, and the (wallow, obferve the time of their coming." But this may be thought an obfolete authority from a book... | |
| Augustus Toplady - Theology - 1794 - 500 pages
...wifdom has he made them all. The earth is full of his riches. Through him, the ftork in the heavens knowe'th her appointed time; and the turtle, and the crane, and the fwallow, obferve the time of their coming. Jer. viii. 7. May our attendance on every mean of grace,... | |
| Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...the instructed man. " Yea," says the prophet, " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming ; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." * Alas ! it is not alone to ancient Israel that the reproof belongs.... | |
| Christoph Christian Sturm - Devotional exercises - 1800 - 308 pages
...know exactly the time when they ought to return. " The stork in the heavens knoweth her appoint" ed time ; and: the turtle,- and the crane,. and the " swallow, observe the time of their .coming." — Undoubtedly the temperature of the air,. in respect to heat and cold, and the natural inclination... | |
| 1806 - 504 pages
...wickedness, saying, •what have I done ? Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." " When the judgments of the Lord are in the earth, the inhabitants... | |
| William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...even more stupid than the brute creation " For ihe stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgments of the Lord," nor regard the merciful visitations of my power! Why, then, should... | |
| Thomas Smith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1803 - 420 pages
...powerful instinct impressed by the Creator, whereby " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming*." AB the migration of birds constitutes a very curious article of natural history, our readers probably... | |
| Alexander Hunter - Agriculture - 1803 - 590 pages
...rational. In the sacred history we are told, that the Slork in the heavens knmceth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their comings and we are reminded that the leafing of the fig-tree usually determines the approach of summer.... | |
| 1810 - 544 pages
...(ht/Oreator and the littleness of man. Yea, the stork iu the Heavens knoweih her appointed times>; and (he turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. Tell me, ye sages,, who pretend to penetrate mto the secrets of... | |
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