| 1611 - 360 páginas
...down, and without walls. As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour is not seemly for a fool. As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, So the curse causeless shall not come. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the fool's back. Answer not a fool according... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 páginas
...seemly for a fool ; though he may look grand, he know* 2 not how to use it, and does mischief with it. As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come ; a man is in no more danger from the causeless curse of others, than from the flying of a bird over his... | |
| Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1807 - 372 páginas
...having any operation at all, but such as might be fatal to the wicked and unnatural itnprecatot ? " As the bird by wandering, as the swallow " by flying, so the curse causeless shall not " come." Prov. xxvi. 2. A dark passage, thus paraphrased by Bishop Patrick. "Though " men are too prone in their... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 páginas
...XXV. 27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to seek their own glory is not glory. XXVI. 2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the causeless curse shall not come. As a bird flies swiftly away, and returns not to thy hand again ; so... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 páginas
...is good ; but to seek our own glory and reputation too much, is shameful and justly odious. XXVI. 2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the causeless curse shall not come. As a bird flies swiftly away, and returns not to thy hand again ; so... | |
| 1809 - 1150 páginas
...contentious busy-bodies. AS snow in summer, and as rain in harvest ; so honour is not seemly for a fool. 2 J 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. 4 Answer not a fool according... | |
| 1815 - 614 páginas
...walls. CHAP. XXVI. As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. 2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. 4 Answer not a fool according... | |
| 1819 - 948 páginas
...walls. *~ CHAP. XXVI. S snow in summer, and as rain inharA .m. vest: so bonourisnot seemly fora fool. 2 D, Even the captives of the mighty 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. 4 Answer not a fool according... | |
| George Lawson - 1821 - 452 páginas
...iniquities, if they had not, to their great unhappiness, filled high stations whilst they lived. Ver. 2. As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come, When you see a bird wandering about, or a swallow flying hither and thither, you are not afraid of... | |
| John Milton - 1825 - 794 páginas
...children to the famine ....for they have digged a pit to take me — . Neh. iv. 4, &c. 4 D Prov. xxvi. 2. as the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. Psal. cix. 28. let tiiem curse, but bless thou. Prayer is assisted by fasting and vows. Matt. ix. 15.... | |
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