Exposition of the book of proverbs, Volum 2David Brown, 1821 |
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Pàgina 11
... servants to have rule over princes . Wisdom turns every thing to a man's advantage and honour , but folly turns gain into loss , and makes a man ridiculous and contemptible , when he is surrounded with every thing that might make him ...
... servants to have rule over princes . Wisdom turns every thing to a man's advantage and honour , but folly turns gain into loss , and makes a man ridiculous and contemptible , when he is surrounded with every thing that might make him ...
Pàgina 12
George Lawson. It is still more unseemly for servants to have rule over princes , for although servants have as good blood in their veins as princes , and are born with the same ra- tional powers , yet their education and habits of life ...
George Lawson. It is still more unseemly for servants to have rule over princes , for although servants have as good blood in their veins as princes , and are born with the same ra- tional powers , yet their education and habits of life ...
Pàgina 70
... servants as the receivers of his revenues , and therefore , when the poor are cheated of their dues , or those that labour in the gospel are deprived of their hire , or any thing alienated that was justly devoted to the service of God ...
... servants as the receivers of his revenues , and therefore , when the poor are cheated of their dues , or those that labour in the gospel are deprived of their hire , or any thing alienated that was justly devoted to the service of God ...
Pàgina 74
... servants , who deprived him of his life after he had performed many signal services to the empire . Truth must be joined with mercy in the administra- tion of a good prince . Dissimulation may serve a sin- gle turn , but faithfulness ...
... servants , who deprived him of his life after he had performed many signal services to the empire . Truth must be joined with mercy in the administra- tion of a good prince . Dissimulation may serve a sin- gle turn , but faithfulness ...
Pàgina 89
... servants , but her husband is most to be piti- ed , because she is of one flesh with him . She may be a scourge in the side of others in the family , but she is rottenness in her husband's bones . She is the greatest plague to him to ...
... servants , but her husband is most to be piti- ed , because she is of one flesh with him . She may be a scourge in the side of others in the family , but she is rottenness in her husband's bones . She is the greatest plague to him to ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 398 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Pàgina 201 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Pàgina 377 - But where shall wisdom be found ? And where is the place of understanding ? Man knoweth not the price thereof ; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : And the sea saith, It is not with me.
Pàgina 414 - Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Pàgina 387 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Pàgina 388 - They spend their days in wealth, And in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us ; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Pàgina 292 - Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it: and if he have done it, that he do it no more. Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it: and if he have, that he speak it not again. Sir 19:15 Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.
Pàgina 299 - A faithful friend is a Strong defence; and he that hath found such an one, hath found a treasure.
Pàgina 206 - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
Pàgina 78 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.