| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1882 - 782 Seiten
...soul. The Ishmael of the flesh mocks at the Isaac of the conscience, and is uureproved. Solomon said, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth," and the same may be seen in the little world within, where appetites rule and grander capacities are... | |
| 1884 - 824 Seiten
...They seem to be anachronistic, utterly inexplicable. " Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low places." " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth : " (x, 6, ?.)• " Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning... | |
| Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1884 - 604 Seiten
...30.37. 4 Hob., the matter of the. touffue. set 3 in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. (7> hat I (8> <• He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite... | |
| Charles John Ellicott - 1884 - 612 Seiten
...ruler: (6) folly is 1 Hcb..»i>/if«rt. set 3 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 diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite... | |
| 1884 - 1068 Seiten
...which procecdeth from the ruler: (6) folly is set in great 'dignity, and the rich sit in low place. (7) I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the 2 rulers, and said (8) He that diggcth a pit shall fall into it ; and whoso breaketh through a fence, serpent shall bite... | |
| Arthur Noel Malan - 1885 - 170 Seiten
...a besieged city saved by the wisdom of a poor man, yet no man remembered that same poor man. He had seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Solomon's reflections upon the vanity of life are full of bitterness and disappointment. He even found... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1886 - 416 Seiten
...of Keble ?— In this bad world below Noblest things have vilest using. The wise preacher said : ' / have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth ; ' and so have I seen — dreadful profanation ! — old stone coffins, as well as discarded fonts,... | |
| Thomas Campbell Finlayson - 1887 - 288 Seiten
...error which proceedeth from the ruler : folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." Probably enough there may be here an allusion to some events of contemporary history. To ride on horseback... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1888 - 842 Seiten
...United States line-of-battle ship Ohio, and her men could not desert. CHAPTER V. THE JOURNEY OVERLAND. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. — Ecclegiastes. CALIFORNIA, in 1848, stood on none of the world's highways. It was an isolated amphitheatre,... | |
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