 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 680 pages
...to preserve a sense of it. You had often before read that expostulation, Wilt thousct * Isa. ir. 4. thine eyes upon that which is not ? For riches certainly make themselves wings, and fty away as an eagle towards heaven *. But perhaps you never saw those wings spreading so wide,... | |
 | John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - 1804 - 190 pages
...before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. Labour not to be rich : cease, from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ?...wings ; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven. Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye ; neither desire thou his dainty meats : for as... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. Labour not to be rich ; cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ?...make themselves wings; they fly away, as an eagle toward heaven. For riches are not for ever : and doth the crown endure to every generation ? On Women.... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...cease from thine own wisdom, which man firomfit thee to such a 5 dangerous and destructive conduct. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ?...make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Solomon, though a rich man, sfieaks of riches in a very contemptuous manner here, a»... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...his dainties : for they are deceitful meat. 4 Labour not to be rich : cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ?...make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle toward «eaven. 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...by all means, to restrain thy wanton appetite, if thou be a man given to please thy palate. XXIII. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ? for riches certainly make themselves wmgs; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. XXIII. 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...23. Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fty upon that which is not ? saith wise Solomon ! Prov. xxiii. 5. for riches certainly make themselves wings : they fly away as an eagle towards heaven : if we have wings of desire to fly after them, they are nimbler of flight to outstrip us ; and leave... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...his dainties : for they are deceitful meat. 4 Labour not to be rich : cease from Ahine own wisdom. 5 man living be justified. 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my vi i ! ; toward heaven. 6 Eat thou not the bread of him thai hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty... | |
 | 1809 - 612 pages
...happiness in so unstable a possession. llo\r strong, as well as how just, the •wise man's expressions ! " Wilt . thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ; for riches certain, ly make to themselves wings, they fly away as an eagle to wards heaven." Behold I preach the... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...thyself. Col. iii. 2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Prov. xxiii. 5. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that "which. is not...themselves wings, they fly away as an eagle towards heaven. Psal. Ixii. 10 — If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. "Mat. vi. 25. Therefore I say... | |
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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ? for riches certainly make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. 
