 | Samuel Phelps - 1818 - 634 Seiten
...me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty not riches; feed me with food convenient for me, lest 1 be full and deny thee, and say, who is the Lord ?...and steal, and take the name of my God in vain*." Aristotle says, if there be a general idea of goodness, common to all things called good, and separable... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 428 Seiten
...to moderate views of human life and human happiness. Remember and admire the wisdom of Agur's wish. Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither...riches. Feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be fully and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take SERMON... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1818 - 654 Seiten
...and of hope. ' Give me neither poverty nor riches,' said one of the wisest of men, ' lest I be lull, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of God in vain.' While riches exempt their possessors from the temptation of meaner vices, his observation... | |
 | 1819 - 488 Seiten
...riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thecf. Two things have I required of thee, deny me them not...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain*. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness ; turn away mine eyes from beholding... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 408 Seiten
...devourers of our neighbour's bread, according to the spirit of Agur's prayer in Prov. xxx. 8, 9; Remove from me vanity and lies^ give me neither poverty nor...or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of God in vain. In this view of the expression, therefore, we pray God to continue that blessing upon... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1819 - 270 Seiten
...for ourselves, every wise man would say with Agur in the book of Proverbs,* " Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me, lest...poor, and steal, and take the name of my GOD in vain." But He, who best knows what is fit for us, has not left us this choice. He has placed us in different... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 Seiten
...Jar from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient Jbr me, l-est I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. 1 HTS is that law of the second table, which treats particularly of our duty with relation to our neighbour's... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1819 - 758 Seiten
...; give me. neither riches nor ppverly, but feed me with food convenient for me : lest I befvll.and deny thee, and say, Who is the- Lord? or lest I be...and steal, , and take the name of my God in vain." This has not any of the marks of being a Jewish prayer, for the Jews never prayed bat •when they... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 526 Seiten
...to moderate views of human life and human happiness. Remember and admire the wisdom of Agur's wish. Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. * — Let me recommend, II. MODERATION in our pursuits. Wishes and desires rest within. If immoderate,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 488 Seiten
...prayer to God; Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me withJbod convenient for me. Lest I be full and deny thee, and...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. * He whose wishes respecting the possessions of this world, are the most reasonable and bounded, is... | |
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Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor... 
