| 752 páginas
...like so many distressed orphans, for their mother. And in this manner the ostrich may be said to be hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers ; her labour (in hatching and attending them so far) being in vain, without fear or the least concern of what becomes... | |
| John William Carleton - 1851 - 726 páginas
...like so many distressed orphans, for their mother. And in this manner tho ostrich may be said to be hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers ; her labour (in hatching and attending them so far) •being in vain, without fear or the least concern of what... | |
| Emily Taylor - 1839 - 118 páginas
...only some of them take charge of their young ; it may be very truly said, as Job goes on to say, " she is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers." And yet those of the birds which do set, and hatch the young ones, are as careful over them as possible.... | |
| First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - 1840 - 548 páginas
...in the 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 not hers." And if it were so criminal and matter of such complaint for mothers to neglect the bodies of their... | |
| 1840 - 870 páginas
...mav crusU them, or that the wild beast may breaV them. 16 She is hardened against her young ones, an though they were not hers : her labour is in vain without fear; 17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted lo her understanding. 18 What... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 páginas
...and feathers unto the ostrich ? 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust. 15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that...hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's : her labour is in vain without fear; 17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath... | |
| Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 páginas
...the defect of natural affection in the ostrich, may be well applied to the bird we are talking of: "She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers : " Because God hath deprived her of wisdom ; neither hath he imparted to her understanding."* Query... | |
| 1842 - 440 páginas
...them in the 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 not hers." But with all birds, " The young dismissed, to wander earth or air, There stops the instinct, and there... | |
| Harriet Newell Cook - 1842 - 138 páginas
...them in the 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 not hers." See how well this agrees with the accounts given by travellers. They say that the ostrich is frightened... | |
| William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 páginas
...which they had killed at the distance of two or three days' journey eastward. In Job 39. 16 it is said, "She is hardened against her young ones, as though...were not hers; her labour is in vain without fear." The following extract, from Vaillant's Travels in Africa, may serve to illustrate this passage: —... | |
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