| 1841 - 544 páginas
...Scriptures speak of this general appetency to personal good with decided commendation : Jl good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. They reprobate the want of it, as more injurious than speculative unbelief: He that provideth not for... | |
| George Merriam - 1841 - 308 páginas
...are inserted by the translator, to convey more clearly the meaning of the writer.] 1. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. 2. The rich and poor meet together : the LORD is the maker of them all. 3. A prudent man foreseeth... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1841 - 530 páginas
...Scriptures speak of this general appetency to personal good with decided commendation : Jl good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. They reprobate the want of it, as more injurious than speculative unbelief: He that provideth not for... | |
| 1843 - 606 páginas
...when they follow a venerated and beloved pastor to the grave. " A good name," says the wise man, "is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." This proverbial saying, true in relation to every man, is preeminently so in respect to a minister... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - 314 páginas
...dominion : Bless the Lord. O my soul. THE BIBLE READER. LESSON PRIDE AND HUMILITY, !-• A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than- great riches, And loving favor rather than silver and gold. The rich and poor meet together : The Lord is the Maker of them all. When pride cometh, theu eometh... | |
| 1843 - 592 páginas
...when they follow a venerated and beloved pastor to the grave. " A good name," says the wise man, " is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." This proverbial saying, true in relation to every man, is preeminently so in respect to a minister... | |
| 1848 - 658 páginas
...our fellow beings is natural, and, to a proper extent, commendable. "A good name," says Solomon, " is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." And who, that has any respect for himself, does not consider his character more precious than even... | |
| John Bovee Dods - 1845 - 374 páginas
...of the Lord shall be thy rere-ward." 122 SHORT SERMONS. SERMON X. ON A GOOD NAME. " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." PROV. xxn. 1. A GOOD name involves all that can render man exalted and amiable, or life desirable.... | |
| Lyman Cobb - 1847 - 284 páginas
...mind, in the education of their children or pupils, that, thus saith the Scriptures : " A GOOD NAME is rather to be chosen than great RICHES, and LOVING FAVOR rather than SILVER and GOLD." Prov. xxii. 1 ; and that, "A GOOD NAME is better than PRECIOUS OINTMENT." Ecc. vii. 1. SUBSTITUTE OR... | |
| Thomas H. Palmer - 1847 - 156 páginas
...that a righteous man hath, is better than the riches of many wicked." Ps. xxxvii. 16. "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." Prov. xxii. 1. Was it manly or unmanly for Jerome to make his mother send her girl to the wharf? Was... | |
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