 | Elizabeth Prentiss - 1875 - 322 pages
...approach a bridge, I want to try it with one foot, before I venture my whole weight upon it." " ' Be not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding,' " Philologus hastened to quote. " You want to walk by sight," said Urbane^ " but you cannot do it.... | |
 | David Morris (B.A.) - 1876 - 74 pages
...will instruct thee and teach tliee in the way which thou shalt go : I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must bo held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked... | |
 | James Ridgway (B.D.) - 1877 - 236 pages
...(Psal. xlii. 1.) 2. As an hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest. (Isa. xxxii. 2.) 4. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding. (Psal. xxxii. 9.) 3. As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. (Isa. xxxii. 2.) 6. As the grass... | |
 | Charles Force Deems - 1878 - 800 pages
...sense it seems to be used in Psalm vii. 5, " and lay mine honor in the dust." PSALM xxxli. 9 — " Bo ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding : whose mouth must bo hold in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thoe." The horse is naturally wild, and runs... | |
 | Thomas Bradbury - 1878 - 642 pages
...guide us with His eye, guard us with His arm, and succour us with the sweet sympathies of His heart. " Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding. ' " My Father, I ask to be led by Thine eye, And not need to be curb'd by the bit : But, taught by... | |
 | M A. M - 1878 - 384 pages
...judgment, but by impulses and intuitions, which are nowhere promised. " I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding." God has given us reason and judgment, and, by the right exercise of these powers, he promises to guide... | |
 | David Thomas K. Drummond - 1879 - 688 pages
...go.' Thus does He put David, and all of us, beloved, on our guard about the future. He says further, ' Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding.' Might not God have said to David, ' Had I not put the bridle and rein on you in those days that are... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1879 - 786 pages
...the faults and follies of which he convicts you. When he comes to lead you gently to the Saviour, be not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, but gladly follow where he draws, according to the prayer of the spouse in the song, "Draw me, we will... | |
 | Monday Club (Boston). - 1879 - 458 pages
...will teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. With mine eye I will guide thee. Be ye not as he was, as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose mouths must be held in with bit and bridle to force them near thee. Many sorrows are to the wicked... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 242 pages
...man is not a leathern one : what kind of texture it is rightly made of, we find from that command, " Be ye not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose mouths must be held in with bit and bridle." You are not to be without the reins, indeed ; but they... | |
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I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go : I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding : Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will... 
