 | 1822 - 494 pages
...becomes an adept in music ; we say, " he plays to perfection." Look through the vegetable kingdom, from "the Cedar-tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the Hyssop that springeth out of the wall," and you will find that there is a degree of perfection essential to the several orders of plants,... | |
 | John Galt - 1822 - 350 pages
...Earl turned round. " Wylie," said his Lordship playfully, " can you speak of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall P" " It's no right o' your Lordship," replied Andrew seriously, " to make a fool o' the Bible... | |
 | John Galt - 1822 - 358 pages
...Earl turned round. " Wylie," said his Lordship playfully, " can you speak of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ?" " It's no right o' your Lordship," replied Andrew seriously, " to make a fool o' the Bible,... | |
 | George Holden - 1822 - 316 pages
...thousand proverbs ; and his songs were a thousand and five. And he SPAKE of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he SPAKE also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." — (Chapter iv.... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1823 - 468 pages
...natural philosophy. He spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in...Lebanon * even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes3. Such being the... | |
 | 1923 - 662 pages
...floats on the breeze. They have entered the vegetable kingdom, and examined and classified the subjects, 'from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall.' They have surveyed the ages that are past. They have traced the rise of empires, and explored... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...us to look up with gratitude and admiration to HIM whose care is over all his works, "from the cedar that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." Thus may botany be a means of exciting in us ideas which may lead to moral and religious consequences;... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1824 - 434 pages
...enjoyment of his creatures. It is recorded in holy writ, that " He spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." (1st Kings, ch.... | |
 | 1824 - 318 pages
...this : " And he spake of trees (lignis in the Vulgate, and {ix»» in the Septuagint), from the cedar that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." But might not hyssop have been the name for any small plant, in contradistinction to the magnificent... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...SHRUBBERY : ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE WORKS OF THE POETS. BV THE AUTHOR OF THE FLORA DOMESTICA. " And he spake of Trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth up out of the wall." LONDON : PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND HESSEY, 93, FLEET-STREET, AND 13, WATERLOO-PLACE,... | |
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And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. 
