 | 1784 - 50 pages
...THE READERS OF SHAKSPEARE. BvxTHJLRSITES LITERARIUS. HJL jra VERUM ATQUE DECENS. HOR. ANSWER A FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY, LEST HE BE WISE IN HIS OWN CONCEIT. PROV. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HENRY PAYNE, OPPOSITE TO MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE, PALL-MALL. M-DCC-LXXXIV. FAMILIAR... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1801 - 350 pages
...and a modest man may assume airs .too, and repel insolence with its own weapons. There is a time a& Solomon the wisest of men teaches us, when" a fool...easily yield up their faith and reason to his imperious diciates. Courage and positivity are never more necessary than on such an occasion. But it is good... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1801 - 482 pages
...Solomon, the wisest of men, teaches us, when a fool should be answered according to his folly, kst he be wise in his own conceit, and lest others too...easily yield up their faith and reason to his imperious dktates. Courage and positivity are never more necessary than on such an occasion. But it is good to... | |
 | 1813 - 996 pages
...king Solomon, " Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like him : answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit," by observing, that " the defender of reirgion should not imitate the insulter of st, in his modes of... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pages
...will do. Answer not a fool according to 5 his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit ; do not answer every imfiertinent sfieech or accusation of a clamorous fool ; it is the better way... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1806 - 472 pages
...if we are not to answer a fool, so as to be like unto him ; yet we are, by all means, to answer him according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit ; again, because a criminal forgetfulness of this leading truth is the sole source of all the wickedness... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...wherein he provofceth thee, lest thou declare thyself to be as very a fool as he. XXVI. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. In a discreet and sober manner take up a fool roundly, and convince him of his absurd cavils and proud... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...back. 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool ug K 6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage. 7 The... | |
 | Thomas Williams - 1810 - 244 pages
...for we shall certainly be saved. To this objection it may be replied, Solomon says, " Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." It is believed the objector will have no reason to complain, if he be answered according to this direction... | |
 | John Brown - 1810 - 642 pages
...vi. 9. Tit. iii. 9. 3R2 not a fool according to his folly, lest thou bt like unto him ; answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit : we ought never to answer a fool in a foolish manner, and sometimes not at all ; but it is proper... | |
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Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. 
