 | Anne Pratt - 1799 - 200 Seiten
...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...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." * Alas ! it is not alone to ancient Israel that the reproof belongs. The voice of nature, and the voice... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 626 Seiten
...dens, and remain in their " places." And of the fowls of the air it is faid, Jer. viii. 7, " The rtork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the «' turtle, and the crane, and flie fwallpw, obferye the ti-jie of their " cominj." But man being a prudent and profpefting creature,... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - 1800 - 308 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...to hear if they speak aright; if man repents of his wickedness, saying, •what have I done ? Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times,...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." " When the judgments of the Lord are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world, we have been told,... | |
 | Samuel Davies - 1802 - 456 Seiten
...Every one turneth to his courfe, fays Jeremiah, as the horfs ruJheth into the battle ; yea, thejiork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and thefwallow, obferve the time of their coming ; but my people, more ftupid than they, know not the judgment... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 Seiten
...of it men make themfelves worfe v/orfe than the beafts: Jer. viii. 7. "Yea, the ftork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times : and the turtle, and the crane, and the fwailow, obferve the time of their coming : but my people know not the judgement of the Lord." Men's... | |
 | William Smith - 1803 - 584 Seiten
...refuse to return;" they are even more stupid than the brute creation " For ihe stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the...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 they say... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1803 - 420 Seiten
...they are guided by that powerful instinct impressed by the Creator, whereby " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the...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 - 1803 - 590 Seiten
...excellent lefson to the 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.... | |
 | 1898 - 584 Seiten
...notice of men from the earliest times. The prophet Jeremiah observed that ' the stork in the heaven ' knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle and the crane ' and the swallow observe the timo of their coaling.' Every spring the London ornithologist looks out for the coming of the migrants,... | |
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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. 
