| Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 796 pages
...is temperate in all things." — Ibid. 25. This is said with relation to athlete and such persons. " HE that observeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reup." — Ecflesiastes xi. 4. " Vox et prœterea nihil — — I love the sound on't, It goes so thundering... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...from memory or perhaps himself translated from the Vulgate. In the English version the passage is : " He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. " (Ecclesiasles, xi, 4.) 5 Point device (old) for extremely exact. " Perceiving for perception.... | |
| David Thomas - 674 pages
...truth now, and then the truth will make us free. J. GWYNNE. SUBJECT : — Difficulties Vanquished. " He that observeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." — Eccles. xi. 4. -Vulns'u of siomilii fbe jibe JSnnbrtb snb ^ortg-sccottb. MAN was made for... | |
| George Orme - 1852 - 228 pages
...of her former companions. His was a department of Christian labor in which especially he felt that " he that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap ;" and in which it was indispensable to act in the spirit of the Divine direction, " In the morning... | |
| 1852 - 776 pages
...after many days." Therefore, too, the caution stands midway between these two Divine injunctions, " He that observeth the wind, shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds, shall not reap," Eccles. ii. That is, if you say it is hoping against hope, to teach children Gospel truth, with... | |
| Rice, John R. - Revivals - 1969 - 132 pages
...another way of saying, "Blessed is the soul winner who tries to reach every sinner possible." Again, "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap" (Eccles. 11:4). You may think you do not know enough Scripture, but in a few minutes you can... | |
| John R. Rice - Bible - 1971 - 576 pages
...thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. " And verses 46, following, say: "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her... | |
| Martha Rainbolt, Janet Fleetwood - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1983 - 370 pages
...similar difference in translation appears in Chapter 1 1 , verse 4. The King James translators write, "He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." In the Living Bible the passage reads, "If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get... | |
| Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree faileth, there it shall be. 4 G$ $<&=&y'_' % reap. 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of... | |
| John Donne - Diseases - 1987 - 260 pages
...bee 5 Nature,] Nature: 1624(2), 1626 10 Afurrfc;] Misery: i6z6 22 faith,] faith 1624(2), 1626 done. He that observeth the wind, shall not sow, and he that regardeth the Ecclw. 11.4 clouds, shall not reape; that is, he that is too dilatorie, too superstitious in these... | |
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