| 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... | |
| John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 pages
...nothing' irregular and vicious. To despise them may be a kind of stupid brutality. The Wise Man says that ' a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.' — But there are excellent rules to be observed on this occasion,... | |
| Joel Hawes - Books and reading - 1829 - 190 pages
...thee perrerse. LECTURE IV. FORMATION AND IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER. PROVERBS, xxii. 1. A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN GREAT RICHES, AND LOVING FAVOR RATHER THAN SILVER AND GOLD. It is not one of the least excellencies of the religion of the Bible, that, whilst it inculcates love... | |
| Youth - 1829 - 262 pages
...rejoice in the fruits of it, and gratefully to regard it as a most valuable blessing. Solomon tells us, that " a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold ; T1 and indeed it is often seen that the piety and diligence 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 - Character - 1831 - 186 pages
...thee perverse. LECTURE IV. FORMATION AND IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER. PROVERBS, xxii. 1. A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN GREAT RICHES, AND LOVING FAVOR RATHER THAN SILVER AND GOLD. It is not one of the least excellencies of the religion of the Bible, that, whilst it inculcates love... | |
| Rev. Samuel Wood - 1832 - 180 pages
...will find those who are 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... | |
| Great Britain - 1831 - 396 pages
...most strenuously against "the vanity of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches," and maintain " that a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold," &c. enforcing the necessity of lay ing up their treasures in heaven,... | |
| 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... | |
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