Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the... Talks on Writing English: Second series - Page 14by Arlo Bates - 1901 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Ruskin - 1856 - 568 pages
...Job, xxxvi. 29., " The spreading of the clouds, and the noise of his tabernacle}" and xxxviii. 33., " Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven ? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth ? canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds?" Observe that in the passage of Addison's well known... | |
| Friedrich August G. Tholuck - 1856 - 426 pages
...xxxviii. 33), " Can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle ? " " Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven ? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth ? " He then speaks of the rulers of night — the moon and the stars, which certainly impress us with... | |
| William King Tweedie - 1857 - 440 pages
...creation, gathering knowledge in the milky way, and rejoicing to answer the challenge of Jehovah to Job : " Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades,...canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?" But while gathering knowledge from every source, as the bee gathers honey from every flower, there... | |
| 1857 - 224 pages
...heaven, who hath gendered it ? The waters are hid as with a stone, And the face of the deep is frozen. .-'Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades,...? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth ? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee ? Canst thou... | |
| Job (the patriarch) - 1857 - 226 pages
...heaven, who hath gendered it ? The waters are hid as with a stone, And the face of the deep is frozen. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades,...? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth ? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee ? Canst thou... | |
| Paris expos. univ. internat. de 1855 - 1857 - 404 pages
...the bands of Orion ? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season ? or canst thou guide Arcturns with his sons ? Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven...? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth ? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee ? Canst thou... | |
| John Eadie - 1857 - 860 pages
...louse the bands of Orlonf Canst thou bring forth Hazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturns 5am. xxl, 16. And Ishbl-benob, which was of the sons...of tho giant, the weight of whose spear mio/ied th PI. cxlvii, 4. Ho telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by tltclr names. Jer. xxxl,... | |
| 1856 - 732 pages
...the place thereof? Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion ? Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven ? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth ?" Painfully and laboriously we toil in the heat and burden of life's brief summer day, to accumulate... | |
| 1858 - 474 pages
...begotten the drops of dew? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades,...? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth ? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee ? Canst thou... | |
| 1858 - 652 pages
...the dependencies of nature, he was dumb. When asked, " Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion ? Canst thou...? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth ? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of water may cover thee t Canst thou send... | |
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