 | Andrew Reed - 1820 - 352 pages
...give a slight turn to the conversation. " Changes indeed ! In you alone what changes do I see ! I sent you away a child, and now," said she, with a glowing...was secure from the snares of London till he became religions. Nothing but religion can uphold the slippery footsteps of youth !" Silence now became necessary... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1820 - 352 pages
...one was half BO delightful to me, as that religious one to which you have referred ki your "fetters. Blessed be that hand which guided you into the ways...I never thought Charles was secure from the snares 4$ London till he became religious. Nothing but religion can uphold the slippery footsteps of youth!"... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 pages
...he,"—and " the foolishness of fools is folly,"—" the treacherous dealer hath dealt treacherously,"—" all her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace," of Scripture composition, are splendid specimens of this figure. Bacon, in his Rhetoric, has some excellent... | |
 | Nahum Capen - 1852 - 594 pages
...principles, enforce the law'.1 No ; for, by our example, we will show that Temperance is wisdom ; and that all her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace. In a few years, my friends, we shall all have passed away. Let us, then, be up and doing, while life... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1860 - 416 pages
..."the foolishness of fools is folly," — " the treacherous dealer hath dealt treacherously," — " all her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace," of Scripture composition. But beautiful as alliterative metre is when tastefully and judiciously employed,... | |
 | Rev. William Holmes - 1868 - 282 pages
...objects is far more laborious than to pursue those only that are lawful. It is said of wisdom, that all her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace. The mind of the youth who is in pursuit of vanities, or of unlawful pleasures, is ever raging like... | |
 | rev. William Holmes - 1868 - 284 pages
...objects is far more laborious than to pursue those only that are lawful. It is said of wisdom, that all her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace. The mind of the youth who is in pursuit of vanities, or of unlawful pleasures, is ever raging like... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1874 - 420 pages
...he;"—and " the foolishness of fools is folly,"—" the treacherous dealer hath dealt treacherously," —" all her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace," of Scripture composition. But beautiful as alliterative metre is when tastefully and judiciously employed,... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1904 - 208 pages
...holiness. Solomon, who had experience of all other pleasures, yet saith of the ways of godliness, ' That all her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace.' Then sure you will not let the devil deceive you ; it is all he wants, it is that he aims at, to make... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1913 - 340 pages
...the air, her hoof-prints are upon the highway; she may not yet have attained to wisdom, yet surely all her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are paths of peace. Hence, when her ways and her paths coincide with mine, I thrive best. From Woodchuck Lodge I look out... | |
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... have shaped the landscape; it is certainly her cropping that has brought about the hourglass form of so many of the red thorn trees, which give a unique feature to the fields. Her fragrant breath is upon the air, her hoof-prints are upon the highway;... 
