 | 1884 - 1068 pages
...mother, The ravens of 4 the valley shall pick it out, And the 'young eagles shall eat it. 18 There be - 19 The way of an eagle in the air ; The way of a serpent upon a rock ; The way of a ship in the midst... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...we have been often tempted to add Celtic philology to the proverbial ' triad ' of Agur, ' There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four, which I know not.' Yet it has already achieved results which are fairly described by Mr. Elton : — ' By the help of... | |
 | 1919 - 1278 pages
...at the time of the revolution. $1-75 net. The Way of the Eagle By Major Charles J. Biddle "There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea,...four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air . . ." Graphic and informal letters from an American aviator presenting a remarkable picture of the... | |
 | James Wheeler Heylmun - Railroads - 1887 - 176 pages
...handiwork of man, man is the handiwork of God; both are a living machine and their breath is a vapor. "There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea four which I know not" — the glare of the eye of a maid aflame with the fire of fury, the velvety gloss of a butterfly's wings,... | |
 | Kate Norgate - Great Britain - 1887 - 544 pages
...saith there be three things difficult to be found out, and a fourth which may hardly be discovered : the way of an eagle in the air ; the way of a ship in the sea ; the way of a serpent on the ground ; and the way of a man in his youth. I can add... | |
 | Bible - 1888 - 606 pages
...are poetically varied with presents (ffy>iV«i-at . . . fvpcdr)). Solomon (Prov. xxx. 19) speaks of "the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea." 12. immediately cometh together again."] dvc\vdr). Lit, "is immediately... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1889 - 580 pages
...has some remarks ou this subject, in which it says: — "King Solomon acknowledged that there were ' three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not,' and one of these was ' the way of a serpent upon a rock,' and for years the mode of progression of... | |
 | Aesop - Aesop's fables - 1889 - 318 pages
...PROVERBS OF AGUR. 133 18. There be three things too wonderful for me, Tea, four which I know not: 19. The way of an eagle in the air. ... The way of a ship through the sea. 21. Under three things earth trembles, And four it cannot bear : 22. Under a... | |
 | Paolo Segneri - Bible - 1892 - 590 pages
...all else is in vain. SIXTH DAY. Three things are hard to me, and the fourth lam utterly ignorant of. The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth. Such is also the... | |
 | James Means - Aeronautics - 1894 - 224 pages
...overlook the subject of flying, but speaks of it in his book of Proverbs, xxx, 18, 19 — "There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea four,...eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock." I beg also to remind such of my readers as doubt the possibility of flying that many useful and valuable... | |
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The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. 
