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" Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. "
Friendly advice to my poor neighbours: in tales and dialogues, by a member ... - Page 41
by Friendly advice - 1829 - 248 pages
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The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments and the ..., Volume 7

1611 - 360 pages
...fool, and rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, So a fool returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way ; A lion is in the streets. As the...
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A System of Practical Duties, Moral and Evangelical

Thomas Stackhouse - Christian life - 1760 - 370 pages
...Obfervation, this Diftemper of his precludes all Means of his growing wifer : For feeft thou a Man wife in bis own Conceit ? There is more Hope of a Fool, than of him ; and the Reafon is evident, becaufe he difcards the two great Inftruments of Inftruction, Admonition and...
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Sermons preached in the abbey church at Bath, by a late dignified clergyman ...

John Chapman (archdeacon of Bath.) - Sermons, English - 1790 - 664 pages
...beforehand thofe very avenues, by which truth fhould find admittance to the mind. " Seeft thou a man wife in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him." And it will ever be found in facl: an caller tafk to inftil knowledge of any kind into the moft ignorant...
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).

1851 - 592 pages
...and there is a humiliating truth recorded fur our instruction in the word of God: 'Seest thou aman wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool th<m of him.'" We are not quite sure of our author's meaning in the following passage :— " Another...
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Sacred hours; or, Extracts for private devotion & meditation, Volume 1

Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...sport ? Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein : and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. Seest 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...
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A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament: With Devotional ..., Volume 5

Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...for ii>hich he formerly smarted and professed to refient of, 12 and so becomes odious to God and num. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him, that is, of one that has hardly common sense ; he is afoot IS of (tod's making, the otlie"...
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The Youth's Magazine; Or, Evangelical Miscellany

Children - 530 pages
...this error is yet to be named; it is a bar ;to spiritual improvement. " Seest thou," says Solomon, "a man wise in his own conceit ; there is more hope of a fool than of him." " Surely he scorneth the scorners, but he giveth grace uato the lowly"— the humiliating...
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A Scripture Account of the Faith and Practice of Christians: Consisting of ...

Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. xxvi. 1 2. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit, there is more hope of a fool than of him. Ver. 1 6. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason....
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The Works of President Edwards ..., Volume 4

Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...likely to get good of any in the world. Experience shews tlie truth of that, Prov. xxvi. 12....Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of To thrs some may object, that the Psalmist, when we must suppose that he was in a holy frame,...
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The Works of President Edwards ...

Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 512 pages
...Bkely to get good of any in the world. Experience shews the truth of that, Prov. xxvi. 12....Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him." To this some may object, that the Psalmist, When we must suppose that he was in a holy...
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