 | James Lawson Drummond - 1832 - 312 pages
...are not, therefore, to accept in the literal sense the allusions in the 39th chapter of Job, to the ostrich, " which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and...dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were... | |
 | Miss Jones - 1832 - 206 pages
...few comparisons are better,—the ostrich! which, to use the words of Scripture, leaveth her eggs ki the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them, for she hardeneth her heart against her young ones, as though... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1833 - 68 pages
...the wilderness, whom " God hath deprived of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding, leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in...dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them;" but what shall be thought of the still more cruel insensibility... | |
 | Abby Jane Morrell - 1833 - 262 pages
...upon . the subject: " Gavest thoit the goodly icings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ?" " which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust; and forgettclh that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. Sho is har'de.ned against... | |
 | 1859 - 536 pages
...following passage will adequately show : " Gavest thou wings and feathers to the ostrich ? which leavct'u her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust ; and forgetteth that the foot of man may crush them, or that the wild-beast mav break them. She is hardened against her young ones,... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pages
...desired. In the Book of Job the ostrich is thus introduced — " Gavest thou wings or feathers unto the ostrich, which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgctteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them? She is hardened against... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 118 pages
...then sufficient to keep them hot. In the book of Job the ostrich is spoken of, and it is said she " leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in...dust; and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or the wild beast may break them." This is true in the day-time, only, as I have told you, it is observed,... | |
 | Ebenezer Burgess, First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...towards her little ones, like the ostrich, concerning whom we read, (Job xxxix. 14—16.) "That she leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in...dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them ; or that the wild beast may break them ; she is hardened against 144 her young ones as though they... | |
 | 1841 - 516 pages
...who are making such weak excuses read their own character in this description of that bird—" She leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the fool may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them : she is hardened against her young ones,... | |
 | Thomas Fuller, William Pickering - 1841 - 378 pages
...sideration. IV. PROVIDENCE. MARVELLOUS is God's goodness in preserving the young ostriches. For the old one leaveth 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... | |
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ostrich which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them and the wild beast 
