| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1861 - 236 pages
...Providence not even a sparrow falleth to the ground, gave such precepts as these to the Jews : — " ' If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way...the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young ; " ' But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take... | |
| Augustus Clissold - 1861 - 714 pages
...God, or of Divine Inspiration, to give any direction concerning the taking of birds' nests 1 " 7/'ta bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in...and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young ; but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the... | |
| Natural history - 1861 - 562 pages
...acts of cruelty. Parents and children are probably ignorant of that noble passage of Scripture, — ' If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way...ground, whether they be young ones or eggs, and the dam silting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shall not take the dam with the young; but thou shalt... | |
| Theology - 1862 - 920 pages
...we must keep in view that symbol of a humane temper which is found in the Levitical prescription : " If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way...the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young : But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the... | |
| Bible - 1862 - 934 pages
...we must keep in view that symbol of a humane temper which is found in the Levitical prescription : " If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way...the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young : But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the... | |
| Theology - 1862 - 926 pages
...we must keep in view that symbol of a humane temper which is found in the Levitical prescription : " If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way...the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young : But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the... | |
| John Eadie - 1862 - 878 pages
...the bold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. NEST. Dmt. xxll, 6, 7. hn Eadie thon ehalt not take the dam with the young: But thon shalt In any wise lot the dam go, and take the... | |
| 1863 - 440 pages
...behalf of the winged portion of His creatures. At the 6th verse we find the following passage — ' If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way,...the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: thou shalt in any wise let the djm go, and take the young... | |
| Thomas Goyder - 1863 - 454 pages
...were to observe, if in their travels they found a bird's nest in their way. The law runs thus : — " If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way...the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young, but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the... | |
| Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 888 pages
...there, as a spectacle to their fellow citizens." PLIN. Hitt. nat. 1. XXXYI. c. 24. DEUTERONOMY XXII. 6. If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way...the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young. By this law the extinction of any species was guarded against.... | |
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