 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.  The Twentieth Century - Page 7301924Full view - About this book
 | Walter Colton - California - 1860 - 476 pages
...The great Hebrew proverbialist says there are three things about which there is no certainty,—the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon...a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and he might have added— the way of a thread of gold in a vein of California quartz; but probably... | |
 | George Vicesimus Wigram - 1860 - 830 pages
...astray in an evil way, 18. perverse (in his) ways shall fall at 29:27. upright in the way 30: 19. 'Phe way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock ; the tcay of a thip in the midst of the sea; anil the w •!./ ofu man with a maid. 20. Such (is) the way... | |
 | 1862 - 184 pages
...eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Ps. 131. 1. " The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent...a rock ; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea ; and the way of a man with a maid. 20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman ; she eateth, and wipeth... | |
 | Christian Nestell Bovee - American literature - 1862 - 256 pages
...exquisite: — " There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: " The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent...a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid." Wit and Self- Complacency — Wit is usually allied with a certain... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Fiction - 1862 - 378 pages
...Scriptur', ' There be three things which are too wonderful for me — yea, four, which I know not — the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a mat with a maid.' She used to say it as a kind o' caution to me, when she used... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...in human hearts the thought of death. YOUNG. — Night I. Line 4 80; Proverbs, Chap. XXX. Verse 10. The way of an eagle in the air ; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea. SOLOMON. — Proverbs, Chap. XXX. Verse 10. Without making any impression.... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 624 pages
...the wise man, that "there be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea four, which I know not; the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent...a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid." The lasr point made is upon the refusal to grant a new trial, on... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 396 pages
...is enough. . . . There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea four which I know not : The way of an eagle in the air ; the way of a serpent...a rock ; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea ; and the way of a man with a maid." — Proverbs xxx. 15-19. It is scarcely necessary to observe that... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - English poetry - 1866 - 406 pages
...is enough. . . . There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea four which I know not : The way of an eagle in the air ; the way of a serpent...a rock ; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea ; and the way of a man with a maid." — Proverbs xxx. 15-19. It is scarcely necessary to observe that... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - English poetry - 1866 - 394 pages
...is enough. . . . There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea four which I know not : The way of an eagle in the air ; the way of a serpent...a rock ; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea ; and the way of a man with a maid." — Proverbs xxx. 15-19. It is scarcely necessary to observe that... | |
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