 | Tobias Smollett - 1784 - 504 páginas
...a bucket : they are of no more value than the fmall dull that cleaves to the balance : God fitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grafs-hoppers : yea, they are ftill lefs confiderable, all nations before him are as nothing.' There... | |
 | Samuel Hoole - 1786 - 348 páginas
...heavens as a curtain ? — Lift up your SERM. eyes on high, and behold who hath created I. thefe things. Have ye not known ? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning ? Have ye not underjlood from the foundations of the earth * ? Since then we can fcarcely fuppofe, that, in an age... | |
 | 1794 - 954 páginas
...becomes foolith." His tranfcendent eminence above all things is molt nobly reprefented, «hen he " fits upon the circle of the earth, and •* the inhabitants thereof are as grafshoppers : •* All nations before him are as the drop of a buc«' ket, and as the (malí dull... | |
 | Robert MacCulloch - 1800 - 688 páginas
...fenfelefs, motionlefs, and impotent, and incapable of aflording relief in the greateIt extremity *. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning ? have ye not underftood from the foundation^ of the earth ? • Having defcribed the abfurd practices of idolaters,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 304 páginas
...will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved. Have ye not known? have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginnmg ? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth ?. It is he that sitteth upon the... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 páginas
...dust of the earth in a measure. He weigheth the! mountains m scales; and the hills in a balance. He sitteth upon the circle of the earth; and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Ethold 'all nations, are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the srnali dust of the balance'.... | |
 | John Wilkins - 1802 - 294 páginas
...discovered *. * So Psal. xviii. 15. 2. Sometimes for the beginning and first creation of it. Isa. acl. 2. Hath it not been told you from the beginning, have...ye not understood from the foundations of the earth ? and in many other places, before the foundation of the •world was laid*; that is, before the first... | |
 | 1815 - 436 páginas
...that, though the Almighty is '' the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity;" though "He rideth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;" though before Him ''the nations are us a drop in the bucket, and the small dust of the balance ;" yet... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1803 - 422 páginas
...not rot } he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved. Have ye not known ? Have ye not heard? Hath it not...ye not understood from the foundations of the earth ? If is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 páginas
...ear, but now mine eye seeth thee^ : I see the eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient God, who sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; who spreadcth out the heavens as a tent to dwell in, and looks down on the nations as the drop of... | |
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : That bringeth the princes to nothing; He maketh the judges... 
