 | 1809 - 344 pages
...unpromising; it will extract comfort and satisfaction from the most barren circumstances: «' It will suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of " the flinty rock." But the supreme excellence of this complacent quality, is, that it naturally disposes the mind where... | |
 | Hannah More - 1810 - 220 pages
...unpromising : it will extract comfort and satisfaction from the most barren circumstances : " It will suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock." But the supreme excellence of this complacent quality is, that it naturally disposes the mind where... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 514 pages
...best cultivated places] " that he might eat the increase of the fields ; " and he made him "to suck honey out of the Rock, " and oil out of the flinty Rock : Butter of kine, and " milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the " breed of Bashan" [ie as large as that breed] " and " goats,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 504 pages
...cultivated places] " that he might eat the increase of the fields; " and he made him to suck honey ont of the Rock, " and oil out of the flinty Rock: Butter of kine, and' " milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the " breed of Bashan" [ie as large as that breed] " and " goats,... | |
 | John Murray - 1812 - 426 pages
...the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields, and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock. " Butter of kine and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat,... | |
 | William Jay - 1812 - 284 pages
...high places of the earth, " that he might eat the increase of the fields : and he " made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out " of the flinty rock ; butter of kiue, and milk of sheep " with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, " and goats, with the... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 pages
...making her reign as short as it was merciless ! If God then made us, as he did the Israelites, suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock, — how much more signal was his mercy in giving them to us without money, without price, in those... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1859 - 602 pages
...the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields ; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock ; butter of kine and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats; with the fat of kidneys of wheat;... | |
 | 1815 - 706 pages
...the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,... | |
 | John Hoyland - 1816 - 486 pages
...on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields, and He made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.'* The promise which follows, in the 6th verse, is wonderfully calculated to inspire ideas of dignity... | |
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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock... 
