 | Richard Millar - 1811 - 356 pagine
...imputed to Cadmus. (Plin. L. XXIV. c. 2.) Jews. Solomon composed treatises on all animals, and on all plants, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall. (1 Kings, ch. iv. 33.) Josephus asserts that the ancient patriarchs invented both geometry and... | |
 | 1814 - 760 pagine
...We give two specimens : ' Solomon, in his study of the vegetable kingdom, extended hit inquiries " from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall :" let us, as far as we are able, do likewise. The cedar of Lebanon is famous in sacred story... | |
 | 1845 - 624 pagine
...of like character, let an emphatic No ! proceed in reply. Up, then ! like him who " spake of trees, from the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." Learn, and make a sanctified use of your knowledge. Remember Isaiah who says, " Lift up your... | |
 | Samuel Charles Wilks - 1821 - 620 pagine
...opinion of him who was the wisest of mere men, and who himself possessed a variety of knowledge, " from the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." Such, also, has been the judgment of wise and good men in every age*; such is * " I think,"... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1823 - 504 pagine
...the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain." Nor were the lesser works of nature unsung — every plant, from " the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall," "Every herb that sips the dew," every flower " that opes her sweet breast to the sun," was in... | |
 | 1828 - 574 pagine
...may be elicited the most important ideas, which, from the unassuming modesty of the possessors, are, like the flowers of the wilderness, "born to blush...Evelyn; and, though last not least, the far-famed Linnasus, and Miller. From these fathers of the art we learn, that vegetation is " a kind of life,... | |
 | 1830 - 986 pagine
...hortus siccits and the painting might represent the rest, even to the extent of Solomon's Botany " from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." There the slothful in his studies might see " a lion in the way," not to occasion, but to remove... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1830 - 196 pagine
...blessings into spiritual benefits. Solomon, in his study of the vegetable kingdom, extended his enquiries ' from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall:' let us, as far as we are able, do likewise. The cedar of Lebanon is famous in sacred story for... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pagine
...naturalist in the nineteenth century cannot cull and analyse all the plants in the hortut siccus of Solomon, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall. Mrs. Copley has adapted her labours to the taste and capacity of children, and profusely supplied... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - 1832 - 520 pagine
...but time and chance happeneth to them all." Solomon had been surveying the whole compass of nature, " from the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall."* " He gave his heart also to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all things that are... | |
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Plants, from the Cedar of Lebanon, to the Hyssop that springeth out of the wall. 
