Znaleziono 1016 Wyniki dla: Beast From The Earth
the storm-wind shall rise in their faces, and scatter them as the gust scatters chaff. The whole earth ransacked, and the thrones of the mighty pulled down, by their own disobedience, their own malignancy! (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 24)
To every living thing its own breed, to every beast its own moods; the winds✻ rage, and men think deep thoughts; the plants keep their several kinds, and each root has its own virtue; (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 20)
Or if sound judgement is man’s business, who else on earth goes to work so skilfully as she?✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 6)
Ever the soul is weighed down by a mortal body, earth-bound cell that clogs the manifold activity of its thought. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 15)
Thus ever were men guided by the right way, here on earth, and learned to know thy will; (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 18)
the whole world, matched against thee, is but a scruple on the balance, is but a drop of dew, falling to earth at sunrise. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 23)
or it may be he gives it the form of a senseless beast. And now he paints it with ochre; ruddled it must be till all its native colour is lost, all its faults hidden away. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 14)
Despise we not the potter’s toil, that works the pliant earth between his fingers, and makes a cup here, a dish there for our use. Serve they noble ends or base, all alike come from the same clay, and what employment each of them shall find, it is the potter’s right to determine. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
But very ill is that toil bestowed, when he uses the same clay to fashion some god that is no god. Bethink thee, potter, that it is but a little while since thou thyself wast fashioned out of the same earth, and ere long, when the lease of thy soul falls due, to that earth thou shalt return. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)
as have no beauty, even beast-fashion, to make them desirable; the least honourable of God’s creatures and the least blessed. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 19)
Even when no alarms were present to disturb them, the memory of prowling beast and hissing serpent filled them with mortal tremors, till they shut their eyes against the sight of empty air, we must all breathe.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 9)
never was sword so sharp, errand so unmistakable; thy word that could spread death everywhere, that trod earth, yet reached up to heaven. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 16)
