Fondare 370 Risultati per: Water

• Thankless if a man be, like the hoar frost of winter his hopes shall dissolve; like water that goes to waste they shall vanish. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 29)

• Such was the cloud that over-shadowed their camp; such the dry land that appeared where water stood before; the Red Sea unlaboriously crossed, a grassy floor spread out amid the surging billows! (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 7)

• Land-beasts turned to water-beasts, and the firm ground was trodden by creatures born to swim. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 18)

• Fire surpassed its own nature, when water forgot to quench it; (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 19)

• No fire burns so high but water may quench it; almsgiving was ever sin’s atoning. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 33)

• It is as though he offered thee fire and water, bidding thee take which thou wouldst; (Ecclesiasticus 15, 17)

• Reckless thou wilt find her as thirsty traveller that puts his mouth to the spring and drinks what water he can get; no stake but she will make fast by it, no arrow comes amiss to her archery, till of dalliance she has had enough. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 15)

• What are man’s first needs? Water, and bread, and clothing, and the privacy of a home. (Ecclesiasticus 29, 28)

• A voice proclaims, Give heed to me, you that are scions of the divine stock; yours to burgeon like a rose-bush that is planted by running water; (Ecclesiasticus 39, 17)

• What are the first needs of man’s life? Water, fire, iron, salt, milk, wheat-meal, honey, the grape-cluster, oil and clothing. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 31)

• Cold blows the north wind, and ice forms on the water; no pool but it rests there, arming the water as with a breast-plate; (Ecclesiasticus 43, 22)

• Well did Ezechias fortify his city, and brought a running stream into the midst of it, breaking through the rock with tools of iron, and building a cistern for the water. (Ecclesiasticus 48, 19)