 | S S. Pugh - 1873 - 280 pages
...commemoration of their piety, erected statues to them at Delphi." Thus Solon taught the great king that "a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold."f And so to die, when God pleases to call us, is, if we are truly... | |
 | Young people - 1873 - 680 pages
...what you may be earning all the time you are waiting to be a tradesman or a merchant. The Bible says that " a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver or gold." " A good name " does not mean a name for being the richest man... | |
 | Thomas Wade Smith - 1873 - 178 pages
...whenever your names are mentioned, those who hear them may be reminded of what is good. Solomon says that " a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches." And St. Paul speaks of the names of the Saints being written in God's Book of Life. If your names are written... | |
 | Alexander Murdock Gow - American wit and humor - 1873 - 266 pages
...tale-bearer among thy people" for " The words of a tale-bearer art: as wounds" It is also declared that " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches" and Shakespeare, a great English poet, thus expresses the same idea : " Who steals my purse steals trash... | |
 | David Swing - History - 1874 - 172 pages
...mediation should have been tried and exhausted beforehand. Mr. Moderator, it is an inspired declaration that "a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches;" and in the same volume of living truth we learn that " a good name is better than precious ointment." In... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1875 - 140 pages
...Beverly. April 7th, Sunday. — Dr. Appleton preached to-day from Proverbs xxii. I : " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." A beautiful sermon, alluding tenderly and with reverence to our beloved Commander-in-chief, who has... | |
 | Ezra Slocum Carr - History - 1875 - 476 pages
...successful accomplishment of our purposes. Let us remember, my brothers and sisters, f( a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." Accept my thanks for all your fraternal kindness toward me. God bless and preserve you all, and grant... | |
 | Ezra Slocum Carr - History - 1875 - 480 pages
...successful accomplishment of our purposes. Let us remember, my brothers and sisters, " a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." Accept my thanks for all your fraternal kindness toward me. God bless and preserve you all, and grant... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Novelists, English - 1871 - 424 pages
...breath, Whose loudest echo ever noata From out the halls of death." HT TUCKERMAN. " A good name Is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver or gold." — PBOV. xxii. 1. |N America, the popularity of Mr. Dickens is now as great, probably, as... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1876 - 154 pages
...Beverly. April -jth, Sunday. — Dr. Appleton preached to-day from Proverbs xxii. i : " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." A beautiful sermon, alluding tenderly and with reverence to our beloved Commander-in-chief, who has... | |
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A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. 
