The ProverbsRichard Green Moulton Macmillan, 1895 - 194 pàgines |
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Pàgina xi
... simple state of society : the dishonesty of the false balance and divers weights , revenge and hasty strife , gluttony and intemperance in wine . There is a hint of conflict between religion and morality in the precept against vowing ...
... simple state of society : the dishonesty of the false balance and divers weights , revenge and hasty strife , gluttony and intemperance in wine . There is a hint of conflict between religion and morality in the precept against vowing ...
Pàgina xv
... is cast into the lap . There is however one varying note in Proverbs on this supreme topic . The simple sonnet of Agur on the Unsearchableness of God is the first hint of that weary scepticism that stands fully re- XV Introduction.
... is cast into the lap . There is however one varying note in Proverbs on this supreme topic . The simple sonnet of Agur on the Unsearchableness of God is the first hint of that weary scepticism that stands fully re- XV Introduction.
Pàgina xix
... simple ; or again the ' per- verse ' and ' froward'- terms suggesting those who do not yield to temptation , but go to meet it : in Southey's phrase , they tempt Hell to tempt them . - -- The Wisdom celebrated is a thing of character ...
... simple ; or again the ' per- verse ' and ' froward'- terms suggesting those who do not yield to temptation , but go to meet it : in Southey's phrase , they tempt Hell to tempt them . - -- The Wisdom celebrated is a thing of character ...
Pàgina xxi
... simple victim is pictured as following her , heedless as the ox going to the slaughter , helpless as the fettered prisoner carried to the correction of fools . There is a momentary lifting of a veil to give a glimpse of the house as the ...
... simple victim is pictured as following her , heedless as the ox going to the slaughter , helpless as the fettered prisoner carried to the correction of fools . There is a momentary lifting of a veil to give a glimpse of the house as the ...
Pàgina xxiv
... Simple : To the Young Man Knowledge and Discretion : That the Wise Man may hear and increase in Learning : And that the Man of Understanding may attain unto Sound Counsels : To understand a Proverb and a Figure : The Words of the Wise ...
... Simple : To the Young Man Knowledge and Discretion : That the Wise Man may hear and increase in Learning : And that the Man of Understanding may attain unto Sound Counsels : To understand a Proverb and a Figure : The Words of the Wise ...
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Pàgina 125 - 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 xxiv - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give ; When thou hast it by thee.
Pàgina xxiv - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Pàgina 94 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Pàgina 26 - Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her seven pillars : She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; She hath also furnished her table.
Pàgina 31 - He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Pàgina 24 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Pàgina xxiv - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Pàgina xxiv - Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Pàgina 101 - A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.