 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened...  The Cottager's monthly visitor - Page 3011856Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Adolphus Packard - 1837 - 660 lehte
...about, tike "so many distressed orphans, for their mother. In this manner, the ostrich may oe said to be hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's ; her labour, in hatching and attending them BO far, being vain) without fear, or the least tjonc.mi of what becomes... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1851 - 726 lehte
...allusion to the ostrich, says, " She leavethhcr eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them or that the...hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers ; her labour is in vain without fear, because God hath deprived lier of wisdom ; neither hath... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1839 - 100 lehte
...the beautiful language of Scripture, "Leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust; and forgetteth that the foot may crush, them, or that the wild beast may break them," did you ask the clergy to solve your doubts ? Did you inquire whether the Church had its missionary... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 118 lehte
...only some of them take charge of their young ; it may be very truly said, as Job goes on to say, " she is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers." And yet those of the birds which do set, and hatch the young ones, are as careful over them... | |
 | First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - 1840 - 548 lehte
...(Job xxxix. 14 — 16.) "That she leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them ; or that...hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers." And if it were so criminal and matter of such complaint for mothers to neglect the bodies of... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1840 - 132 lehte
...xxxix. 14 — 16) it is said, " Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. ' AiroaicXripvvti TO. TEicva EdOTije, she trcateth severely her young ones,* as though they were not... | |
 | Thomas Fuller, William Pickering - 1841 - 378 lehte
...ostriches. For the old one leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, forgetting that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.* But divine providence so disposeth it, that the bare nest hatcheth the eggs, and the warmth of the... | |
 | Thomas Fuller, William Pickering - 1841 - 376 lehte
...ostriches. For the old one leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, forgetting that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.* But divine providence so disposeth it, that the bare nest hatcheth the eggs, and the warmth of the... | |
 | Harriet Newell Cook - 1842 - 138 lehte
...feathers unto the ostrich 1 which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the...hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers." See how well this agrees with the accounts given by travellers. They say that the ostrich is... | |
 | 1842 - 440 lehte
...passage in Job, which states that " she leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the...hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers." But with all birds, " The young dismissed, to wander earth or air, There stops the instinct,... | |
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