 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 836 pages
...the insensibility of his countrymen, says, " 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." This circumstance, as well as the mournful twittering... | |
 | R. Woolerton - 1831 - 198 pages
...hear." The text was Jeremiah, viii. 7. " 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." " Here," as she remarks, "the prophet instructs us... | |
 | T Forster - 1832 - 144 pages
...many cases mark the distinctive seasons of the year with so great a regularity as to her appointed time, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow, observe the time of their coming. It appears to me that make the ancient writers say. Yea, the Stork in the Heavens knoweth all animals,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 356 pages
...since the days of the prophet Jeremiah : ' For the stork in the "heaven knowcth her appointed times ; and the turtle and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming.' (ch. viii, ». 7.J Why are certain migrating birds called Summer Birds of Passage ? Because they arrive... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...importance from some future relations. Instinct in the brute creation, teaches them to look forward : and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; and the ant provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in harvest And is reason given... | |
 | 1832 - 378 pages
...unto creatures that act under Satan's power. " 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." (viii. 7.) Those who act from instinct shame those... | |
 | James Hogg - 1832 - 396 pages
...MOUNT BENGEK, Stay 4, 1829. THE LAST STORK. " 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." JEREMIAH, viii. 7. I 'VE heard a tale of olden time,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 pages
...beautifully and wisely directed, — ' 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.' It is evident, that of all natural agents climate is the most powerful in changing and modifying the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 442 pages
...since the days of the prophet Jeremiab : ' For the stork in the heaven knowetli her appointed times ; and the turtle and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming'.' (ch. viii, v. 7.) Why art certain migrating birds called Summer Birds of Passage ? ' ' '•' '' Because'... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 284 pages
...instinct with which they are endowed. " 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." We could scarcely see the out-spread wings of the... | |
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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. 
