 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 218 pages
...bees had made a hive of it. He therefore proposed this riddle to thirty youths at his bridal feast : Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. 6. The answer to the riddle was betrayed to the young men by the wife of Samson, to whom he had imparted... | |
 | Affliction - 1838 - 392 pages
...unpleasant to sense, without regard to what is future. It is like Samson's riddle to the Philistines, " out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness," Judges xiv. 14. But to the mind that hath spiritual discernment, and judgeth of good and evil, as things... | |
 | James Fontaine - 1838 - 288 pages
...earthly Sovereign. The signal failure of our adversaries' schemes reminded me of Samson's enigma " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." I must not omit to mention that while I was in London I stayed tho whole time at the house of my Cousin... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pages
...as he would tear a kid, when he turned aside to see it, behold a swarm of bees and honey in it ! " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." Out of grief, misfortune, bereavement, the poet brings gladness, profit, consolation. There is no romance,... | |
 | 1848 - 644 pages
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 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 536 pages
...strengthened by the repast. What a power there is in such a soul ! Truly he might say with Sampson of old, " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." There he lay, under that log, for three days ; patient and surgeon, sick man, hunter, cook, and nurse,... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...schoolmaster's rod, the means of punishment and improvement. Like the dead carcass of Samson's lion, " out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." Why do our hearts throb as we read the war-song, or hear the war-trumpet ? Why do we follow with breathless... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 220 pages
...bees had made a hive of it. He therefore proposed this riddle to thirty youths at his bridal feast : Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. 6. The answer to the riddle was betrayed to the young men by the wife of Samson, to whom he had imparted... | |
 | 1839 - 312 pages
...and thirty change of garments." On being requested to put forth the riddle, he announced it thus : " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." Three days passed away, and no one was yet able to furnish the solution. The means which were taken... | |
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Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. 
