 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 372 pages
...the Old Testament. " Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock ? 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 ?" It is known that, in equatorial regions, the ostrich "leaveth... | |
 | Joseph A. Meen - 1860 - 216 pages
...being robbed during occasional absence in quest of food. " 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... | |
 | 1860 - 1346 pages
...barn ? 13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks ? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ? 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. 16 She is hardened... | |
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - 1860 - 438 pages
...the air. " Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock?" says Job, "or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ? which 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... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1860 - 389 pages
...creatures — as well tell us that the highest image of parental love and forethought is that of the ostrich, "which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust." l ( 25 ) But if such conclusions are not justified by our a priori knowledge of the Divine nature,... | |
 | 1861 - 450 pages
...shall we train our young ?—for what end ? It is the ancient opprobrium of 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."—Mankind dare not so treat their offspring. Our natural affection,... | |
 | 1861 - 792 pages
...He fainteth not. His eyes are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. He is not like " the ostrich which 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 He is... | |
 | M. C. BEST - 1862 - 272 pages
...emblem of thoughtless, careless mothers—let us read it:— ' Gavest thou wings and feathers to the ostrich ? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that a foot may crush them, or that the wild beasts may break them. She is hardened against her young ones,... | |
 | George Corfe - 1862 - 110 pages
...Egypt, artificial hatching is carried on to a great extent, in imitation of the natural instinct of the ostrich, " which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust" (Job xxxix. 14). Solar heat starts the embryo of barley into dependent existence ; that is to say,... | |
 | mrs. M J H. Hollings - 1863 - 478 pages
...to him thus, — " 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... | |
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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 
