 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...this : The condition of a fool is, as you have seen, awful in the extreme : but " seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him." This is a solemn delaration, and worthy of the deepest attention. Let us consider it,... | |
 | William Robinson (Baptist Minister.) - 1832 - 200 pages
...future attainments. This sentiment is sanctioned by the wise king of Israel — " Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit, there is more hope of a fool than of him,'' and all experience verifies its correctness. The most ! effectual way of obtaining scriptural... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1831 - 492 pages
...more engaging and attractive in youth than modesty. What says the wisest of men ? " Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him." An individual's modest opinion of himself, is atolerable accnrate test of his real merit... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1832 - 462 pages
...yet wiser ; teach a jusl man, and he will increase in learning, (Prov. ix. 9.) But, seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of -a fool than of him, (xxvi. 12.) The "principalities and powers in heavenly places," were no novices in the... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory, is not glory. 13 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him. 14 By humility and fear of the Lord are riches and honour and life. 15 The fear of the... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 438 pages
...real condition of the children of Adam in the present state of being. Solomon says, " Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him" (Prov. xxvi. 12) ; and, undoubtedly, there is nothing which, from the beginning of time... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1834 - 276 pages
...transgressors. 11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth tohis folly. 12Seestthou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a. fool than of him. 13 The slothfulman saith (9) There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. 14... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1834 - 366 pages
...many things, the manner whereof my poor reason could by no means make out to me." " Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit: there is more hope of a fool than of him," says Solomon. It would be endless to attempt to enumerate, the great men, ancient and... | |
 | Parsons Cooke - 1834 - 258 pages
...fit for Universalist cultivation, than that composed of ignorance and self-conceit. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit, there is more hope of a fool than of him. As soon as the suggestion that there is no judgment begins to work, the pride of reason... | |
 | David Meredith Reese - 1834 - 224 pages
...the swift ;" — " not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." " Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit, there is more hope of a fool than of him." FINIS, 1 ... | |
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Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. 
