 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 432 pages
...Jilled with, pltnty.—Happy is the man that findeth wisdom— Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honour; her ways are ways of pleasantness, and oil her paths are peace. 5. Besides those solemn arguments, which are taken from another world, the... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 502 pages
...dom; the man that getteth understanding. For " the merchandize of it is better than the mer" chandize of silver, and the gain thereof than " fine gold...."honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness; " and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of " life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy " is every... | |
 | Isaiah Thomas - 1810 - 508 pages
...-wisdom, and the man who getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She...precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst * Clavigero's Hist. of Mexico. desirf, are not to be compared unto her. Proverbs in. 13—15. How great... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1810 - 342 pages
...your wills and atfections, in your profession and conversation. Truth is more precious than gold or rubies, ' and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared to her.' Truth is that heavenly glass, wherein we may see the lustre and glory of divine wisdom, power,... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pages
...us " is designed as a contrast to an address to Wisdom." Wisdom, we are told on Divine authority, " is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou...pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." (Prov. iii. 15 — 17.) But here the author says of the person whom he calls " my Goddess, earthly born", that... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1811 - 258 pages
...for fhc merchandize of it is better than the merchandize of silver, and the gain thereof than of pure gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared to it." Let it appear by your constancy and diligence in attending school, that you believe what God... | |
 | William Jay - 1812 - 284 pages
...and the man that " getteth understanding. For the merchandize of it is " better than the merchandize of silver, and the gain " thereof than fine gold....compared unto her. Length of days is in her " right hand ; and in her left hand riches and honor. O blessed Saviour, thou receivest the weak as well as... | |
 | Edward Williams - 1812 - 582 pages
...wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She...desire, are not to be compared unto her. Length of days are in her right hand ; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness,... | |
 | William Melmoth - 1812 - 410 pages
...and the man that getteth understanding : For, the merchandize of it is better than the merchandize of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things ifiou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length oj days is in aer right hand, and in her... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 462 pages
...wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandize of it is better than the merchandizze of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She...thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her," chap. iii. 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 15. How shall we reconcile these things ? To say, as some do, that the... | |
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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou canst desire... 
