| Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 738 pages
...My graces in thy count'nance meet, " And cad their lu'ftre round. Verfe 15. Take f us the foxes, the little foxes that Spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes. " But fmce my bride's a tim'rous dove, " Soon fcarr'd and fat a ft ray; " Care mud bs taken to remove... | |
| American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...he would have therefound the following passage in confirmation of it :.... " Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes" Canticles', c. ii. ver. 15. Jaccals are rather larger thaa English foxes ; but of a brown colour, clumsier... | |
| Maria De Fleury - 1804 - 302 pages
...eternal employ-ment, even praise and thanksgiving to him who hath loved thee. " Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes;'' watch over thine own heart, O my beloved! take heed of those foes, those subtle enemies, who are continually... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...hear thy voice ; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance [is] 15 comely. Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines : for our vines [have] tender grapes. 16 My beloved, [is] mine, and I [am] his : he fcedcth among 17 the lilies. 'Until the day break, and... | |
| Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 644 pages
...mores! or, .in another sense, with tho in the Canticles, ch. ii. r. l¿. •• Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines, for our vines...grapes." Never was there such an honourable, ingenious, und profitable mystery and science in the world so basely intruded upon, and Als. esteemed, so carelesly... | |
| John Skinner - 1809 - 582 pages
...Rev. viii. 3,4. 4 Exod. xxxv. 28. and xxxix. 38. 5 Psalm v. 3. , VER. 15.—Take for us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines ; for our vines have tender grapes. This address is plural, ' take ye;' but both by grammar and context, may be assigned to the Beloved's... | |
| Great Britain - 1810 - 696 pages
...sc in the Canticles, ch. ii. v. 16. '• Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the Tines, for our vines have tender grapes." Never was there...science in the world so basely intruded upon, and disesteemed, so carelesly regarded, so unworthily subjected to infamy and disgrace, by being made so... | |
| Classical philology - 1818 - 426 pages
...where the imitation appears to me very striking. Song of Solomon, ch. 11. v. "Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines ; for our vines have tender grapes," (or, our vines κνπρίζουσι, bud, as it is in the Septuagint). Again, at v. 112. " 1 hate the... | |
| Classical philology - 1818 - 444 pages
...not injure my vines, for they are young ones." Song of Solomon, ch. 11. v. "Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines ; for our vines have tender grapes," (or, our vines KvirpiS.ovai, bud, as it is in the Septuagint). Again, at v. 112. "I hate the brush-tailed... | |
| Robert Southey - Clergy - 1820 - 560 pages
...roll away every stone of difficulty." «« My Lord's command now, I believe, is, ' Take the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.' Help me by your prayers ; it is an ease thus to unbosom myself to a friend. I have sought the Lord... | |
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