 I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2541848Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 788 pages
...kinds. There are in this volume many excellent general directions for the ordinary garden labours, some of which we shall notice, interweaving them with...own. Watering is the mainstay of horticulture in hot climates. When King Solomon, in the vanity of his mind, made him ' gardens and orchards,' he made him... | |
 | 1745 - 518 pages
...vineyards; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits ; I made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees : I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house ; also, I had great possessions... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...: 5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits : 6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees : 7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house ; also I had great possessions... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - 1861 - 926 pages
...canopy of heaven, making gardens and orchards, planting in them trees of all kinds of fruit, and making pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees. He was not prompted to this tedious routine of labor by any inordinate affection. It was a sense of... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...me gardens and orchards ; and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits."— Vtr. 5. ' I made me — Vor. 6. ' Then I looked on all the works that my hand* had wrought, and on the labor that I had... | |
 | Horace Hooker - 1843 - 408 pages
...vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees : I got me seryants and maidens, and had servants born in my house ; also I had great possessions of... | |
 | 1843 - 480 pages
...and plant vineyards, and make gardens and orchards, and plant in them all kinds of fruits and make pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees • it was only becoming his situation and years, ascending the throne in manhood immature, that he... | |
 | Stephen Olin - 1843 - 526 pages
...vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards ; I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit ; I made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." (Eccl., ii., 4, 5, 6.) Josephus probably alludes to these pools and the other improvements which formerly... | |
 | 1848 - 640 pages
...useful than a wheelbarrow for carrying away cuttings, dead leaves, and rubbish of all kinds. There are in this volume many excellent general directions...prophets frequently compare the spiritual prosperity of the soul to "a watered garden." It is with us also a most neeessnry operation, but very little understood.... | |
 | 1860
...vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees : I got mo servants and maidens, and had servant; born in my house ; also I had great possessions of... | |
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