Proverbs for the People: Or, Illustrations of Practical Godliness Drawn from the Book of WisdomGould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 - 272 oldal |
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21. oldal
... observation of human nature , and the very best rules of common life , but everywhere shines out the most ravishing views of God and godliness . So that , as Scott well remarks , " we shall perceive the meaning and utility of the ...
... observation of human nature , and the very best rules of common life , but everywhere shines out the most ravishing views of God and godliness . So that , as Scott well remarks , " we shall perceive the meaning and utility of the ...
25. oldal
... observation , that the acrimonious words of censorious persons kindle no light in the world except that which gleams from angry flames power- ful only to destroy . Of this truth there are but too many sad instances recorded in the word ...
... observation , that the acrimonious words of censorious persons kindle no light in the world except that which gleams from angry flames power- ful only to destroy . Of this truth there are but too many sad instances recorded in the word ...
30. oldal
... observing and sagacious citizens . Our nation , by the act of God and the virtuous zeal of our fathers , without any merit or demerit of our own , has been placed in such a situation , political , geo- graphical , and statistical , as ...
... observing and sagacious citizens . Our nation , by the act of God and the virtuous zeal of our fathers , without any merit or demerit of our own , has been placed in such a situation , political , geo- graphical , and statistical , as ...
65. oldal
... observation taught him that chaste habits and industrious pursuits were the only true basis of happiness . To ... observe Howard's rule , so nobly illustrated by his life , " that our superfluities give way to other men's convenience ...
... observation taught him that chaste habits and industrious pursuits were the only true basis of happiness . To ... observe Howard's rule , so nobly illustrated by his life , " that our superfluities give way to other men's convenience ...
72. oldal
... Observing the law of chaste frugality , one verifies in his happy and protracted life the promise of his Bible , " Even to your old age I am he ; and even to hoar hairs I will carry you , and deliver you . " On the contrary , while ...
... Observing the law of chaste frugality , one verifies in his happy and protracted life the promise of his Bible , " Even to your old age I am he ; and even to hoar hairs I will carry you , and deliver you . " On the contrary , while ...
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137. oldal - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
74. oldal - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
138. oldal - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry ; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
223. oldal - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
149. oldal - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
148. oldal - Annual for me, the grape, the rose, renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew ; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs ; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise ; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
121. oldal - If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
96. oldal - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with ^cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
58. oldal - From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty ; As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint; our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drinK, we die.
180. oldal - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.