 | Baden Powell - Natural theology - 1838 - 376 pages
...reflection or reverence to confess that we are necessarily ignorant. ' Hardly do we guess aright of things that are upon earth, and with labour do we...before us; but the things that are in Heaven who hath searched out P1" — Wisd. ix. 16. I must observe that, in the expressions here quoted, there is a... | |
 | Frederic Martin (of London.) - Bible - 1838 - 418 pages
...who both have and exercise them, find to be, in some respect or other, incomprehensible mysteries. with labour do we find the things that are before us; but the things that are in heaven, who hath searched out ?" (Wisd. ix. 16.) Above all, when we approach to the consideration of Him, who " hath... | |
 | William Whewell, Caleb Sprague Henry - Christian ethics - 1839 - 252 pages
...the speculative exercise of their intellectual powers. " Hardly," says the Wise man*, " do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour...things that are before us : but the things that are * Wisd. ix. 16. in heaven who hatfa searched out ?" — Hardly, we may add, do we separate general... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 468 pages
...hath no way of giving permanence to things but by reducing them to abstractions. Hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us ; but all certain knowledge is in the power of God, and a presence from above. So only have the ways of men... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 490 pages
...hath no way of giving permanence to things but by reducing them to abstractions. Hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us ; but all certain knowledge is in the. power of God, and a presence from above. So only have the ways of... | |
 | Edward Tatham - 1840 - 810 pages
...thought, as in sublimity of expression : " Hardly do we guess aright at the things that are upon the earth, and with labour do we find the things that...before us ; but the things that are in heaven, who hath searched out, — Thy counsel who hath known, — except Thou give wisdom, and send thy Holy Spirit... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...that museth upon many things. And iardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and *ith labour do we find the things that are before us : but the 'liings that are in heaven who hath searched out ? And thy oimsel who hath known, except thou give... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1843 - 140 pages
...acknowledge, that "hardly do we guess aright the things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find out the things that are before us; but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out 2" PART II. Edward. Did you not mention that voltaicelectricity differed from ordinary... | |
 | William Beveridge - Sermons, English - 1844 - 490 pages
...another world as well as this : as it was long ago observed in the Book of Wisdom. Hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour...are before us. But "the things that are in Heaven, Wisd. 9.i6. who hath searched out?" We see the works of God, and wonderful effects produced every day... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1845 - 740 pages
...furthest recesses of infinity ? Hardly (saith the Wisdom of Solomon) do we guess aright of things upon the earth, and with labour do we find the things that...before us ; but the things that are in heaven, who hath searched out ?* Yea, and the genuine Solomon himself, I said, I will be wise ; but it was far from... | |
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And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us: but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out? 
