...getteth understanding. There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise. The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; The locusts have no king,...

...mistress. 60 There be four things upon the earth which are little ; but they are exceedingly wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the -conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they iheir houses in the rot^j ; the locusts have no ^?ȣ,...

...replies, There be lour [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are] exceeding wise : 2i The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat make they their houses in the rclcks, and thus teach tts caution in 27 avoiding those dangers we cannot...

...consign; Dash'd by their plunging falls on every side Foams and boils up around the rolling tide. Thus *the hoarse tenants of the sylvan lake, A Lycian race of old, to flight betake; At every sound, they dread Latona's hate, And doubled vengeance of their former fate; * Thus the hoarse...

...that when Solomon said ' Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise,'" and again ' The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer,''' — he -was but doubtfully correct ; while Virgil," Horace/ and Milton.s' who all three speak of the...

...mistress. 24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks ; 27 The locusts have...

...weather. Another of these providers is the ant, whereof the wise man says, they are exceeding wise ; a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. Sir Edward King having been curious in examining their 'generation, wonders to find them lying in multitudes...

...tvise? lie replies: There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer, and they teach us to prepare against a time of adversity ; The conies, or Arabian mice, are but a feeble...

...literary men, was unproductive, if not useless. Agur, in his prayer, Proverbs xxx, v. 25, says : " The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ;" and the laws of nature point out to us, with St. Paul, who himself worked and gained his livelihood...

...mistress. 24 There are four thiugs which are little upon the earth ; But they are exceeding wise: 26 The ants are a people not strong, Yet they prepare their meat in the summer. 26 The conies are a people not strong, Yet they make their houses in the rocks. 27 The locusts have...