 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
 | Bible - 1892 - 808 pages
...down. That was his satisfaction. There he left the matter. ... 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,... | |
 | Grant Allen - Botany - 1902 - 232 pages
...their origin and their development. I shall deal with them all, both big and little, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall. I shall endeavour to show how they first came into existence, and by what slow degrees they have... | |
 | Literature - 1903 - 820 pages
...no such thing as perfection. The wise man of Israel is said to have spoken of trees, "from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." Now he would have all that he could do to speak of conifers alone. The Admirable Crichton, that... | |
 | Robinson Souttar - History, Ancient - 1903 - 794 pages
...poet, as an author of wise sayings, or as a naturalist, for " 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 ". Yet with all... | |
 | Grant Allen - Botany - 1905 - 230 pages
...their origin and their development. I shall deal with them all, both big and little, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall. I shall endeavour to show how they first came into existence, and by what slow degrees they have... | |
 | I. Lowenberg - American fiction - 1908 - 630 pages
...altered about them. As for Dr. Montmartre, he seems a Solomon, who knows everything 'from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon to the Hyssop that springeth out of the wall.' Both are invaluable companions. But what about Niagara? I do so hope we can go when they wish... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 642 pages
...divine and moral philosophy," but also " to compile a natural history of all verdure from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall, as well as of all things that breathe or move." Whether in the active investigations by which... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - Physicists - 1910 - 634 pages
...divine and moral philosophy," but also "to compile a natural history of all verdure from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall, as well as of all things that breathe or move." Whether in the active investigations by which... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1814 - 514 pages
...uttered three thousand proverbs, and a thousand and five songs, spake also of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; and some of the most ele* gant parts of his poetical compositions that have reached us, are derived... | |
 | Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Cyril John Gadd, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, John Boardman, Frank William Walbank, David Malcolm Lewis, A. E. Astin, Andrew William Lintott, John Anthony Crook, Alan K. Bowman, Elizabeth Rawson, Edward Champlin, Peter Garnsey, Dominic Rathbone, Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Michael Whitby - Balkan Peninsula - 1970 - 1172 pages
...subject-matter of the proverbs and songs of Solomon recorded in I Kings v. 13:' the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall, and the beasts and the fowl and the creeping things and the fishes'. One of the riddles posed... | |
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