...We are told (I Kings iv. 33) that the wisest of men thought it not unworthy of him to speak of its 'trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth oft of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things,...

...wisdom : " For he spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spoke also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things,...

...for, natural history. To mention but a few — Solomon, we are told, wrote a work on the subject: " of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ; of beasts and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes:*...

...comprehensive though it was, could not have embraced this subject in this peculiar modification. " Trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springcth out of the wall ;" beasts, fowls, creeping things, and fishes, were familiar...

...about. 32 And he spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. 33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things,...

...rest of the Scriptures together, can surely be attributed to no one so fitly as to him, who " spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things,...

...adduce far higher authority than his in praise of the perfume of this little flower : he who " spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall," says, " The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the...

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...for natural history. To mention but a few — Solomon, we are told, wrote a work on the subject : " of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall.... of beasts and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes;"...

...named ; but how different must the study of botany be now from the early times of Solomon, " who spake of trees from the cedar tree, that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ;" and how great is the pleasure to those in the present day...