 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1888 - Liczba stron: 866
...United States line-of-battle ship Ohio, and her men could not desert. CHAPTER V. THE JOURNEY OVERLAND. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. CALIFORNIA, in 1848, stood on none of the world's highways. It was an isolated amphitheatre, a valley... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1888 - Liczba stron: 846
...United States line-of-battle ship Ohio, and her men could not desert. CHAPTER V. THE JOURNEY OVERLAND. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. — Ecckxiaete<}. CALIFORNIA, in 1848, stood on none of the world's highways. It was an isolated amphitheatre,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - Liczba stron: 932
...mind, or those of fortune upon that balance which gives them a sense of the national interest] sit in low places. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." Sad complaints, that the principles of power and of authority, the goods of the mind and of fortune,... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver - 1891 - Liczba stron: 618
...misrule, which yet could not be remedied without peril, folly set in great dignity, and the rich sitting in low places : " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth" (10, 4-7): 10, 16-20 carries on the strain of 10, 4-7, contrasting good and bad government, and closing... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver - 1891 - Liczba stron: 690
...misrule, which yet could not be remedied without peril, folly set in great dignity, and the rich sitting in low places : " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth" (10, 4-7): 10, 16-20 carries on the strain of 10,4—7, contrasting good and bad government, and closing... | |
 | William John Deane - 1891 - Liczba stron: 678
...the nobles and princes of the land. The writer of Ecclesiastes gives his experience in this matter: "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth " (Eccles. x. 7). The same anomaly is mentioned with censure (ch. xxx. 22 and Ecclns. xi. 5). What... | |
 | William John Deane - 1893 - Liczba stron: 628
...mind must feel at such a state of matters, and he concentrates his scorn in the stinging sentence, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth " (ver. 7). Amon:i the Persians only those of noble birth were permitted to ride on horseback. Thus... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1895 - Liczba stron: 374
...above related is actually so, does it not realize the sad remark of Solomon in Ecclesiastes x., 7, " I have seen servants upon horses and princes walking as servants upon the earth." On a projecting rock, not far distant, stands a very artistic stone church looking down upon the pineembowered... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1891 - Liczba stron: 470
...attention to two remarkable pictures : — . "Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth" (vers.6, 7). Now both these things would seem to be in direct violation of the law of cause and effect.... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1896 - Liczba stron: 252
...error which proceedeth from the ruler : Folly is set in great dignity, And the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. xviii He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; And whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall... | |
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 
