 | Madame Guizot (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) - 1849 - 182 pages
...Yes, that is what God himself teaches us in the book of Job. " Gavest thou wings and feathers unto 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... | |
 | M C. Best - 1849 - 308 pages
...mound round the edge, to prevent the rain wetting the interior; in this hole she deposits her eggs, and " warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them," Job xxxix. 14, 16. In this unprotected state she leaves them,... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - 1348 pages
...gather it into thy barn? Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks ? or wings and feathers unto the oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 628 pages
...provide for themselves; and in the book of Job there is a beautiful passage relating to this habit of 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... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1850 - 570 pages
...thirty-ninth chapter of Job. " Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks ? or wings and feathers unto 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... | |
 | 1851 - 932 pages
...quite sufficient to hatch them ; and this seems to be what is alluded to, where it is said, that she 'leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in...dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may break them.' At the Cape of Good Hope, however, and other places, where the... | |
 | William Sherlock - 1851 - 374 pages
...of their offspring ; and it is made an argument of want of understanding in the ostrich, 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 her young ones, as if they were not... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1852 - 750 pages
...OSTRICHES. " Uavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks, or wings and feathers unto ie listrirli ? " Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them...? " And forgetteth, that the foot may crush them, or that the wilde beast may ak them. " She is hardened against her young ones as though they were not... | |
 | 1854 - 834 pages
...says ; " gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock ? Or *vinss and feathers unto the ostrich 'I which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them...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... | |
 | 1854 - 590 pages
...of a natural history. "Gavest thou wings and feathers unto the ostrich? which leaveth her eggs ill 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 hardened against her young ones, as though they were... | |
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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 
