 | William Bengo Collyer - Congregational churches - 1833 - 262 pages
...doctrine, forsake -you not my law. For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight~of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let...retain my words : keep my commandments, and live." This is not egotism: it is the expression of powerful feeling, and manifests the heart to be more deeply... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - Women - 1833 - 234 pages
...happiness, on a confined plan, were turned into an anxious desire to improve the understanding. " Wisdom is the principal thing ; therefore get wisdom ; and with all thy gettings get understanding." " How long ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity, and hate knowledge V Saith Wisdom to the daughters of... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Child rearing - 1834 - 442 pages
...no share in guiding him to this selection ? Solomon himself will tell you. " I was," he replies, " I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the...heart retain my words ; keep my commandments and live. Get wisdom, get understanding : forget it not ; neither decline from the words of my mouth. — Wisdom... | |
 | James Hogg - Conduct of life - 1834 - 352 pages
...rivers, you have reason to fear that you have mistaken the road. But forget not this, that " wisdom is the principal thing: therefore get wisdom, and with all thy gettings get understanding." But in proving this, I might quote one half of the Proverbs of Solomon. I entreat you, then, to read... | |
 | Christian life - 1835 - 428 pages
...they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment," Gen. xviii. 19. Solomon says, " I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me, and said unto me, let thine heart retain my words, keep my commandments, and live,'' Prov. iv. 3, 4.... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Bible - 1835 - 600 pages
...are the pious; foolishness is sin; understanding is religion, and wisdom is true piety. " Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy gettings, get understanding," Prov. 4: 7. Prov. 3: 13, 35, and very often elsewhere. The vanity, therefore, of which Paul speaks,... | |
 | William Howels - 1836 - 556 pages
...admonition of the Lord. Solomon says, in the fourth chapter of Proverbs, third and fourth verses, " For I was my Father's son, tender and only beloved in the...retain my words : keep my commandments and live." At the commencement of his reign, Solomon was an eminently pious man : " and Solomon loved the Lord,... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...happiness, on a confined plan, were turned into an anxious desire to improve the understanding. " Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore, get wisdom; and, with all thy gettings, get understanding." " How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity and hate knowledge ?'' saith Wisdom to the daughters... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1837 - 518 pages
...father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine ; forsake not my law. For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the...thine heart retain my words; keep my commandments and lire. Get wisdom, get understanding, forget it not ; wisdom is the principal thing, and, therefore,... | |
 | John Wilson - Trinity - 1837 - 320 pages
...only-begotten [son]. — See Gen. xxii. 2, 12, 16 (comp. Gen. xxi. 9; xxv. 1, 2). s Prov. iv. 3 : I was my father's son , tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother. (Comp. 1 Chron. iii. 5 — 9.) t Gen. xxii. 2: Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac (IEIID, Heb.;... | |
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For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, "Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 
