 | William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 494 pages
...grace of God, are innocent lambs. Q. But what are liars ? A. They are snakes and vipers, with double tongues, and poison under their lips. Q. Who is the...TEXTS. Prov. xxvi. 3. A bridle for the ass, and a rod f or the f oof s back. See also Job xi. 12. B S5 Acts Acts xx. 29. Grievous wolves shall enter in among... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. He thatjustifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...a bird over his head ; 3 it fixes no where e.Trept upen him that uttered it. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back ; a foolish wicked man must be taught and restrained by se4 теге method» ; no others will do.... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. 3 A whip for the horse, rnin 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 472 pages
...grace of God, are innocent lambs., Q. But what are liars ? A. They are snakes and vipers, with double tongues* and poison under their lips. Q. Who is the...Grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Luke xiii. 32. Go tell that fox. Psal. x. 9. He lieth in wait secretly, as a lion in his den,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 602 pages
...no understanding, or, as is fully expressed in the xxvith chapter of Proverbs, A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. As I take it, my Lord, the word fool has a moral sense also, and signifies a scoundrel as well as a... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 582 pages
...bridle, rides him, curbs him, reins him, and turns him whithersoever he will. " A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back," saith the wise man. He is a wonder to himself, and stands astonished at his own wisdom. Every false... | |
 | Ephraim Wood - Society of Friends - 1815 - 384 pages
...denominations as deceivers; and against his saints as hypocrites, advise— " A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ASS, and a rod for the fool's back." (Prov. xxvi. 3.) "' Forty stripes, save one,' and that one the heaviest of all, may be given in a future... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according... | |
 | Colonist, Colonist (Writer on colonial West Indies politics) - Abolitionists - 1816 - 390 pages
...system. In the book of Proverbs, at xxvi. chap, and 3d verse, it is written, " A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back." By fools the wise man certainly meant not those unhappy beings who were deprived of or left deficient... | |
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A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. 
