 | Barnaby (Uncle.) - 1799 - 374 páginas
...inveterate, may be broken through, if it is but set about in the right way. " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct," Eccles. x. 10. But there are innocent and rational indulgences... | |
 | 1865 - 632 páginas
...now to compete with the invention of the whole world ; and as Solomon said, ' If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must ' he put to more strength, but wisdom is profitable to direct.' It was his sense of the pecuniary value of a great inventor which... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 páginas
...hedge and fence of public authority, will find 10 he does it to his own hurt. If the iron be blunt, and he do not •whet the edge, then must he put to more strength :* but wisdom [is] profitable to direct ; a man should exercise prudence in the common affairs of life... | |
 | 1807 - 570 páginas
...shall be hurt therewith ; and he that cleavcth wood shall be endangered thereby10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct. 1 1 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment ; and a... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 páginas
...hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. X. 10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct. Strength without wit prevails not: if the axe be blunt and want... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 páginas
...be hurt therewith ; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. 10 If the iron be blunt, Q?? 'L : but wisdom in profitable to direct. 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment ; and a babbler... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 páginas
...attending this employment is mentioned Deut. xix. 5 ; 2 kings vi. 4, fi. 10. If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct. This seems to refer to the words immediately before : he that... | |
 | 1813 - 1368 páginas
...(From " Memorial of the Lord's Goodness." Nislet Sf Co.) A TEACHER'S MUSINGS. " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength."— Ecdes. x, 10. WE are accustomed to speak of ourselves as workmen, laborers, teachers, &c. Such terms... | |
 | 1815 - 614 páginas
...be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. 10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom w profitable to direct. 1 1 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler... | |
 | 1819 - 948 páginas
...hurt therewith ; and he that cleaveth wood Mi. ill be endangered thereby. 10 If the iron be blunt, ble Society : but w isdom it profitable to direct. 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment ; and a... | |
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If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct. 
