 | William Leete Stone - 1895 - 374 pages
...above related is actually so, does it not realize the sad remark of Solomon in Ecclesiastes x., 7, " I have seen servants upon horses and princes walking as servants upon the earth." On a projecting rock, not far distant, stands a very artistic stone church looking down upon the pineembowered... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1891 - 470 pages
...attention to two remarkable pictures : — . "Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth" (vers.6, 7). Now both these things would seem to be in direct violation of the law of cause and effect.... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1896 - 252 pages
...error which proceedeth from the ruler : Folly is set in great dignity, And the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. xviii He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; And whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1896 - 252 pages
...error which proceedeth from the ruler : Folly is set in great dignity, And the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. xviii He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; And whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall... | |
 | Henry Gillman - 1898 - 616 pages
...reck that he was a descendant of the ancient princes of the land, — at heart always a shepherd. " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth," saith Solomon. The simple story is told. Why should more words be spent upon it? Though there is no... | |
 | Henry Gillman - 1898 - 608 pages
...reck that he was a descendant of the ancient princes of the land, — at heart always a shepherd. " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth," saith Solomon. The simple story is told. Why should more words be spent upon it? Though there is no... | |
 | 1898 - 422 pages
...error which proceedeth from the ruler: folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him. Whoso... | |
 | Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - 1900 - 840 pages
...magistrate : WORK AND VENTURE 231 The burden-bearer is set in great dignity, And the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, And princes walking as servants upon the earth. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, And thy princes eat in the morning ! Blessed art thou,... | |
 | Annesley W. Streane - 1900 - 156 pages
...which proceedeth from the ruler : Folly is set in great dignity,1 and the rich sit in a low 7 place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 1 on great heights, Koheleth repeats the advice of chap. viii. 3. If the king is displeased with thee,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902 - 850 pages
...United States line-of-battle ship Ohio, and her men could not desert. CHAPTER V. THE JOURNEY OVERLAND. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. — Ecclesitmtei. CALIFORNIA, in 1848, stood on none of the world's highways. It was an isolated amphitheatre,... | |
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 
