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" 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. "
Early days; or, The Wesleyan scholar's guide - Page 37
1873
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Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a ...

Thomas Harmer - Bible - 1787 - 542 pages
...natural. The verfe is the 1 3th of the 39th chapter, and is thus tranflated in our vcrlion : " Gaveft thou the goodly wings " unto the peacocks ? or wings and feathers " unto the oftrich ?" or, according to the marginal tranflation of the laft claufe, " the " feathers of the ftork...
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The Truth and Safety of the Christian Religion Deduced from Reason and ...

Daniel Bellamy - Apologetics - 1789 - 512 pages
...difplays, And flowly moves amid the waving blaze. VE R. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. GAVEST THOU WINGS AND FEATHERS UNTO THE OSTRICH? WHICH LEAVETH HER EGGS IN THE EARTH, AND WARMETH THEM IN THE DUST j AND FORGETTETH THAT THE FOOT MAY CRUSH THEM, OR THAT THE WILD BEAST MAY BREAK THEM. SHE...
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Animal Biography: Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners ..., Volume 2

William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...and then permitted the young to fhift . jr themfelves. Even the author of the book of Job alludes to 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...
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Select parts of the holy Bible, for the use of the negro slaves, in the ...

1807 - 570 pages
...and fcathftrs unto the ostrich ? 14 Which Icavcth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth <hem in dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. -16 She 1 6 ?he is hardened against her young ones, as though they Were not her's : her labour is in...
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Travels Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and ..., Volume 2

Thomas Shaw - Africa, North - 1808 - 506 pages
...raro ova ; ' eggs in the earth, and warmeth them [viz. by in' cubation*] in [the sand] dust. 15. ' And forgetteth that the foot may crush ' them, or that the wild beast may break them. 16. ' She is hardened against her young ones, as * though they were not hers ; her labour is in vain...
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A Commentary Upon the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha: Genesis to ...

Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...till thou hast prevailed with him to bring it home, and lay it in thy barn ? Ver. 1 3 . Caves t thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks ? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ?] Have other birds any reason to complain that they are not so goodly as the ostrich ; whose wing...
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Good Thoughts in Bad Times; and Good Thoughts in Worse Times

Thomas Fuller - Devotional exercises - 1810 - 234 pages
...ostriches. For the old one || kaveth 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...
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Rural discourses

William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...despair of success, or presumption on God's mercy, led you to be indifferent about their welfare. Like 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...
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Ezra to Malachi

Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn ? 13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks ? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ? 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot...
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A revised translation and interpretation of the sacred Scriptures, after the ...

Early printed books - 1815 - 872 pages
...feathers to the ostrich? 14. Which leaves her eggs to be hatched in the warm sandy earth, 15. And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may tread on them. 16. She is hardened against her young, as tho* they were not hers; without fearing that...
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