...coined the proverb. His mind had been over the whole field. He had studied it as he studied botany: From the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall. He had contemplated the loftiness of the rich and the lowliness of the poor; wherein they differed...

...Palestine. What a pity it is that Solomon's botany is lost, in which ' he spake of trees from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall!' The cedar we know, but what is the hyssop of the royal botanist ?" The Bible furnishes no complete...

....association to varied forms of thought and feeling. " When Solomon spoke of trees, from the ' cedar tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall,' his botanical range extended from the hardy pine under northern snows to the plants of the sultry...

...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...

...association to varied forma of thought and feeling. " When Solomon spoke of trees, from the ' cedar tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall,' his botanical range extended from the hardy pine under northern snows to the plants of the sultry...

...Palestine. What a pity that 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 ? Mr. B , French consul...

...natural history, in more than one of its departments. We are told that " he spake of trees from the cedar that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ; " and in looking over his sacred treatises, we meet with many allusions to the names and habits...

...to the vegetable kingdom in the Bible, and Solomon is said to have spoken " of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." Todd's Index Rerum serves as a ledger, into which the student may post such illustrations as...

...poet, he was well versed in the sciences of botany and of natural history : ' he could tell of all trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springs out of the wall ; and he could tell of beasts, of fowl, of creeping things, and of fish.' Nothing...

...of Lebanon in Holy Writ : how Solomon's botanical knowledge was said to extend from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall — from the grandest to the most insignificant growth in the vegetable kingdom. How it was used...