 Solomon's botany is lost, in which he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ! 3 The cedar we know, but what is the hyssop of the royal botanist?  Genealogy of the Eliot Family - Page 163by William Smith Porter - 1663 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Theology - 1850 - 778 pages
...legislation, though in a different sense ; from him both Aristotle and Solomon learned to speak of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall, as well as of beasts and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. Yea, Ezekiel and Demosthenes... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...contained in his thousands of proverbs and his songs, he paid great attention to natural science ; for he "spake of the 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... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 704 pages
...instructive sayings. "And his songs were a thousand and five; and he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ; he spake also of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fishes." I have sometimes... | |
 | George W. Mylne - Holy Spirit - 1851 - 120 pages
...already existing within him. We are told of Solomon, that " he spake of trees, from the cedar tree " that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that " springeth out of the wall, he spake also " of beasts, and of fowl, and of creep" ing things, and of fishes." (1 Kings iv.... | |
 | Thomas Macgill - 1851 - 276 pages
...all that remain of him "whose songs were a thousand and five, and who spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." The Epistle (Ephesians vi., 10 — 20,) is the description of the Christian armour, consisting... | |
 | Flower garden - 1852 - 116 pages
...corn-flower when we see them, need "we be as wise as Solomon, who " spoke of plants from the cedar that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." If we have a good rose-bush on our lawn, we need not torture ourselves to discover that philosopher's-stone... | |
 | Thomas James - Flower gardening - 1852 - 108 pages
...a corn-flower when we see them, need we be as wise as Solomon, who " spoke of plants from the cedar that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." If we have a good rose-bush on our lawn, we need not torture ourselves to discover that philosopher's-stone... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Bible and geology - 1857 - 532 pages
...time. In a passage already quoted, Solomon is said to have discoursed of plants, "from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall," — from the great tree to the minute herb ; and Cowley rose, in his metrical treatise, as has... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Bible and geology - 1857 - 524 pages
...time. In a passage already quoted, Solomon is said to have discoursed of plants, " from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall," — from the great tree to the minute herb ; and Cowley rose, in his metrical treatise, as has... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - Occasional sermons - 1858 - 542 pages
...the Queen of Sheba to his court, we know that it embraced all the science of his time : he spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. Moreover we know,... | |
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