 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 444 pages
...former practice became so prevalent in the time of Solomon, that speaking of state and pomp, he says, I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. HARJIER, vol. ii. p. 104. No. 218. — xii. 4. The doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...and societies which subsist only by order, fall into corruption, when all order is so prepostereusly inverted, and the most extreme confusion introduced....servants upon the earth." They who understand Solomon's languagei will easily see, that the rich, and the princes he means, are such only who are rich in virtue... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pages
...former practice became so prevalent in the time of Solomon, that speaking of state and pomp, he says, I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as, servants upon the earth. HARMER, vol. ii- p. 104. No. 21 8. — xii. 4. The doors shall be shut in the street1!, \vhen the sound... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pages
...former practice became so prevalent in the time of Solomon, that speaking of state and pomp, he says, / have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking. as servants upon the earth. HARMER, vol. ii. p. 104. No. 218. — xii. 4. The doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...5 There is an evil which I have seen Auder the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler > 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 8 He that... | |
 | 1808 - 558 pages
...herself, and the other for the servant that attended her. Solomon might refer to the same, when he says, I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Eccl. x. 7. My reader however will meet with a more exact illustration of this passage in a succeeding... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...office; but yield way humbly to that displeasure, and seek by submission to satisfy his indignation. X. 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. That foolish and unfit men are advanced to places of dignity and employments in public affairs,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...error, that proceeds from princes, in the ill choice which they make of those whom they promote. X. 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. That foolish and unfit men are advanced to places of digni; / and emploj-ments in public affairs,... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error rj/iich proceedeth from the ruler : 6 K place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walkingasserv;:ntsupon the earth. 8 He that... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6. Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. Another cause of defection and rebellion against princes is here intimated, — misgovernment... | |
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 
