| John Wesley - 1827 - 590 pages
...Yet if is needful in some cases, to ' answer a fool according to his folly.' otherwise he will be ' wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason.' I therefore constrained myself to approach as near as I dared, to his own manner of writing. And 1... | |
| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...down. — Eccles. x. 18. As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed,&c. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason. — Prov. xxvi. 14. 16. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...generally ; yield ; surrender ; exhibit a surrender. Will ye renibr me a recompense'! foel iii. 4. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Prtmrbs. I heard Mm speak of that same brother. And be did render him the most unnatural That lived... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 588 pages
...itself, or from those who are under it. Fools are not sensible of their folly. Solomon says, " The fool is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason."* The most barbarous and brutish heathens are not sensible of their own darkness ; are not sensible but... | |
| William Hamilton - 1830 - 172 pages
...there is nothing farther that they can learn. '* The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: and even a sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." Let me, therefore, earnestly entreat all who peruse these pages, seriously to examine the foundation... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 588 pages
...itself, or from those who are under it. Fools are not sensible of their folly. Solomon says, " The fool is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason."* The most barbarous and brutish heathens are not sensible of their own darkness ; are not sensible but... | |
| 1830 - 424 pages
...taught to hear and read only on one side. It is the confidence of the sluggard mentioned by Soloman, ' wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.' Besides, we hold that all true liberality is founded in a proper distrust of our own judgment ; in... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 722 pages
...conceited, yea needs must be so ; but he Prov. xxvi. can never be wise : A sluggard, saith Solomon, /* wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. This conceit of wisdom is a natural issue of his ignorance ; and it is indeed no small part of his... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pages
...that pleasure, or to introduce another less satisfactory? thus 'is the sluggard,' as Solomon saith, ' wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.' It rendereth us very rash and precipitant in judging ; for the first shows of things, or the most slender... | |
| John Abercrombie - 1832 - 392 pages
...and candid examination, and with a clear conception of the grounds on which they are formed : — " The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." The process of mind which we call reason or judgment, therefore, seems to be essentially the same,... | |
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