 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...formerly smarted and professed to repent o/J 1Ц and »о becomes odious Co God and man. Seest tliou a man wise in his own conceit ? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him, that i», of one that has hardly contraen sense ¡ he is a fool 13 of God's making-, the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 514 pages
...get good of any in the world. Experience shews the truth of that, Prov. xxvi. 12....Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of bin*." To this some may object, that the Psalmist, when we must suppose that he was in a holy... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...attention, and that of his friends, another of this Jewish king's witty sayings: " Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him!" Many other jcsts f . uttered by this sagacious monarch, are equally funny with these... | |
 | Asa Lyman - 1810 - 292 pages
...but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Open rebuke is better than secret love. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him. He that is 'slow to anger, is better, than the mighty ; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh... | |
 | Whole duty - 1810 - 506 pages
...never so much as once drearrfs that it is possible he may be deceived and deluded. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Finally, this self-conceit hardens a man in his sins, and makes him deaf to instructions,... | |
 | 1810 - 722 pages
...yet wiser; teach a just man, and he •will increase in learning, (Prov. ix. 9.) But, seestthou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him, (xxvi. 12.) The " principalities and powers in heavenly places," were no novices in the... | |
 | 1810 - 724 pages
...wiser; teach a just man, and he •will increase in learning, (Prov. ix. 9.) But, seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him, (xxvi. 12.) The " principalities and powers in heavenly places," were no novices in the... | |
 | 1810 - 734 pages
...yet -wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning, (Prov. ix. 9.) But, seest tliou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him, (xxvi. 12.) The " principalities and powers in heavenly places," were no novices in the... | |
 | Daniel McCalla, William Hollinshead - 1810 - 458 pages
...people. **• Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise m his own conceit. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit, there is more hope of a fool than of him." That Dr. Franklin was a great man, and great economist, there is no one doubts who is... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 pages
...but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Open rebuke is betttr than secret love. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him. He that hath pity on the poor, lendeth to the Lord ;.. that which he hath given, will he pay him again,... | |
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Seest thou a man who is wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him." He who, from natural dulness, is insensible to praise or blame, will never rise to eminence and esteem. He who has wilfully quenched 
