 | Apples - 1912 - 350 pages
...sincerely spoken. It strengthens one's faith in the precepts of the wisest man of the ages: "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." Auf Wiedersehen, good friend! The Spy Will Continue Highly Regarded By The Members Abraham, you will... | |
 | Joel Hawes - Books and reading - 1829 - 190 pages
...—for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, Though worlds judged thee perrerse. LECTURE IV. FORMATION AND IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER....duty of paramount importance, it exhorts us to think on those things that are lovely and of good report among men. From the most sublime exhibitions of... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1830 - 528 pages
...contemptible ; but in itself really very considerable. ' A good name,' saith Solomon himself, (no fool,) ' is rather to be chosen than great riches ; and loving favor rather than silver and gold.' In its consequences it is much more so ; the chief interests of a man, the success of his affairs,... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1830 - 528 pages
...contemptible ; but in itself really very considerable. ' A good name,' saith Solomon himself, (no fool,) ' is rather to be chosen than great riches ; and loving favor rather than silver and gold.' In its consequences it is much more so ; the chief interests of a man, the success of his affairs,... | |
 | Joel Hawes - Young men - 1832 - 184 pages
...oi 8* judgment, the sentence of approval and peace. — Servant of God, well done ! well hast thou fought, The better fight— — for this was all thy...duty of paramount importance, it exhorts us to think on those things that are lovely and of good report among men. From the most sublime exhibitions of... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1832 - 180 pages
...willing to employ you, and to enable you to get your living. Solomon has said, that ' A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver or gold,' (Prov. xxii, 1); and I am sure that, when you come to settlein the world, you will find this... | |
 | Christian biography - 1835 - 434 pages
...ing as to have no regard for the opinion and approbation of his fellow creatures? " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches ; and loving favor rather than silver and gold." " The light of THE providence of God was presented in vision to Ezekiel, under the image of a vast... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - 1836 - 512 pages
...itself, appeals would not have been so frequently made to it, in the sacred Scriptures : A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor, rather than silver and gold. Them, that honor me, I will honor; but they who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. If the love of... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - Congregational churches - 1836 - 516 pages
...itself, appeals would not have been so frequently made to it, in the sacred Scriptures : A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor, rather than silver and gold. Them, that honor me, I will honor; but they who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. If the love of... | |
 | Joel Hawes - 1839 - 146 pages
...CHARACTER. PROVERBS xxii. 1. " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold." IT is not one of the...duty of paramount importance, it exhorts us to think on those things that are lovely and of good report among men. From the most sublime exhibitions of... | |
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A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. 
