 | Samuel Read Hall - 1833 - 180 pages
...instruction, let her not go ; keep her for she is thy life. Get wisdom, get understanding and forget it not. Wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.1 Such are the declarations of the book of God, and they require serious attention from the youthful... | |
 | Ebenezer Ireson - 1833 - 392 pages
...is the secret of the Lord ; the sense and evidence of his covenanted favor. Estimable treasure! It is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it. Oh! my brethren, guard, by unremitting attention to every means, by a prompt compliance with... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...in them. 9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. 10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge, rather than choice gold. 11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared... | |
 | 1834 - 428 pages
...pursuit of them, by adding, " receive my instruction, and not silver ; and knowledge, rather than fine gold ; for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the...things that may be desired, are not to be compared with it." This is your Lord's decision . Christ, and his riches, being unsearchable, you have a glorious... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie, Marvin Ross - 1834 - 668 pages
...three apartments above for the master and mistress. On a stone tablet over the door :— • MPCCCXV. Wisdom is better than rubies ; and all the things that may be desired are- not to be compared to t#. Prov. viii. 11. * Archeeol. /Kliuiin, vol. ii. part 1. page 105. the incumbents have b ll's MSS.... | |
 | Christian - 1835 - 172 pages
...good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Prov. iii. 27. 5. Wisdom is better than rubies ; and all the things that may be desired, are not to be compared to it. Prov. viii. 11. 6. The lip of truth shall be established for ever ; but a lying tongue is but for a... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1835 - 270 pages
...Happy is the man that findeth wisdom : her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. FOR YOUTH. CHAPTER LXII. FRANKLIN. 1. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most distinguished patriots and... | |
 | 1835 - 444 pages
...whose chest may prove of more real value than if it had been filled with money : for Solomon says, " Receive my instruction and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold." HST DEATH OF INFANTS. MR. EDITOR, IT is a common practice, I regret to say, among our cottage friends,... | |
 | William Howels - 1835 - 492 pages
...evidently addresserUhe ''whole human race. 4 i ...:..,. .1. A hat , ,r :.. In the 10th verse he says, " Receive my instruction, and not silver ; and knowledge rather than choice gold." And in the 12th verse, " I wisdom dwell with prudence." The troth, my brethren, is this : Essential... | |
 | John Clunie - 1836 - 80 pages
...to the sons of man. O ye simple, understand wisdom; and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Receive my instruction, and not silver ; and knowledge...that may be desired are not to be compared to it. I love them that love me ; and those that seek me early shall find me. Blessed is the man that heareth... | |
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Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. 
