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...prince in delineating the portrait of true wisdom, paints her in saying, " To understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings." Mental amusements, then, have been esteemed, in all ages, and by persons of every condition ; and the...

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...will hear, and will increase learning ; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels : To understand a proverb, and the interpretation ; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings, Prov. i.5,6. So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding ; yea,...

...Proverbs ; where we are taught that it is the part of a learned man who has attained to "wise counsels, to understand a proverb, and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their dark sayings." My opponent, however, incorrectly attributes to me as a, crime, the very thing of which -his favourite...

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...7. xxiv. 60. xxv. 23. xxviii. 16, 17. It was always accounted the highest commendation of science, " to understand, a proverb and the interpretation ; the words of the wise and their dark sayings," under which titles two species of poetry seem to be particularly indicated.* In the days of the Judges...