 | Richard Millar - 1811 - 356 pages
...Cadmus. (Plin. L. XXIV. c. 2.) Jews. Solomon composed treatises on all animals, and on all plants, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall. (1 Kings, ch. iv. 33.) Josephus asserts that the ancient patriarchs invented both geometry and... | |
 | 1814 - 760 pages
...We give two specimens : ' Solomon, in his study of the vegetable kingdom, extended hit inquiries " from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall :" let us, as far as we are able, do likewise. The cedar of Lebanon is famous in sacred story... | |
 | 1845 - 624 pages
...of like character, let an emphatic No ! proceed in reply. Up, then ! like him who " spake of trees, from the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." Learn, and make a sanctified use of your knowledge. Remember Isaiah who says, " Lift up your... | |
 | Samuel Charles Wilks - Christianity - 1821 - 620 pages
...opinion of him who was the wisest of mere men, and who himself possessed a variety of knowledge, " from the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." Such, also, has been the judgment of wise and good men in every age*; such is * " I think,"... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1823 - 504 pages
...the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain." Nor were the lesser works of nature unsung — every plant, from " the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall," "Every herb that sips the dew," every flower " that opes her sweet breast to the sun," was in... | |
 | Agriculture - 1828 - 568 pages
...back to the patriarchs of the science. The knowledge of the wise king of Israel, who " spoke of plants from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall," is lost to us ; but we have the collective wisdom of Pliny, Malpighi, Grew, Tournefort, and... | |
 | Gardening - 1828 - 574 pages
...back to the patriarchs of the science. The knowledge of the wise king of Israel, who " spoke of plants from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall," is lost to us; but we have the collective wisdom of Pliny, Malpighi, Grew, Tournefort, and Evelyn;... | |
 | Ann Taylor - Children - 1830 - 196 pages
...blessings into spiritual benefits. Solomon, in his study of the vegetable kingdom, extended his enquiries ' from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall:' let us, as far as we are able, do likewise. The cedar of Lebanon is famous in sacred story for... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1830 - 986 pages
...hortus siccits and the painting might represent the rest, even to the extent of Solomon's Botany " from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." There the slothful in his studies might see " a lion in the way," not to occasion, but to remove... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pages
...naturalist in the nineteenth century cannot cull and analyse all the plants in the hortut siccus of Solomon, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall. Mrs. Copley has adapted her labours to the taste and capacity of children, and profusely supplied... | |
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from the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ;" that is, from the greatest to the least. 
