 | 1864 - 300 pages
...nine yonng girls, marked out for abduction, the latter-being all of highly respectable1 eowneetionsi"' "In vain. is the net spread in the sight of any bird," and we trust that none wlia mayread these words would willingly enter into tlio snares of the spoiler.... | |
 | 1865 - 538 pages
...conventual school, and had seen the comatose effect which the cowl exercises on the head of the wearer. " In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird ; " and although the door was open, and nice harley was strewn on the threshold, inside the decoy he... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver - 1898 - 542 pages
...3S7'8 57° I4°! (so Job l8" Prov. 29' Lam. i13, and elsewhere. For the literal sense, see Prov. i" ' in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird '). The word used in 66" is a different one, meaning properly a hunting-implement, and occurring otherwise... | |
 | Henry Clews - 1900 - 316 pages
...by the professional point-giver. King Solomon is reputed as saying in the Book of Proverbs, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," but the people who slide numerously and with alacrity into the holes dug for them by the givers of points... | |
 | Henry Fanshawe Tozer - 1901 - 650 pages
...colpi, ie assaults; si saetta in 1. 63 corresponds in meaning to this, dinanzi, &c. : Prov. i. 17, ' In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird ' — in the Vulg. ' ante oculos pennatorum ' (dei pennuti, ' of full-fledged birds '). 66. se riconoscendo... | |
 | 1901 - 1316 pages
...thy foot from their path : 16 For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. 17 For el. 38 And : 18 And these lay wait for their own blood ; They lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the... | |
 | Robert M. F. Watson - 1901 - 378 pages
...purse.' Whereas if we had been at our duty, we should have observed what is said, verse 1 7, ' Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird.' This was among the first of the steps of our defection, before, about, or after the revolution ; though... | |
 | James Meeker Ludlow - 1902 - 346 pages
...amazement at " the stupidity of a dominant impulse." Most sinners are blunderheads. The proverb has it, " In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," — but men are sillier than birds. They even spread the net for themselves, bait it and walk into it, deluding... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - 684 pages
...be worth just what the notorious Anglo-German agreement is worth, that is, nothing at all. Surely, in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. Let us, by all means, have an understanding, so far as possible, with Russia. Let us endeavour to find... | |
 | Frank Hugh O'Donnell - 1902 - 260 pages
...which complete the ousting and eviction of lay learning from the Public Instruction of the country. But in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird ; and even another avalanche of spontaneous petitions, headed by the well-known figures of the tame... | |
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Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original. 
