 | Mrs. Pilkington (Mary) - Women - 1804 - 276 pages
...Macedon 233 Empress Elizabeth of Russia 237 wHISTORICAL BEAUTIES. RELIGION. SENTIMENTS. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prmerbt. A great, a good, and a right mind, is a kind of divinity lodged within us, and... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...and to depart from, evil is understanding. * An analysis of Wisdom and Folly. Proverbs. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction. He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good ; and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...; to understand the meaning offierables, figures, and other •yxiys of instruction. 7 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge : [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction. This verse isa key to the whole bof¡k. Uy vxidom, he does not mean common sagacity, eararenot... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 506 pages
...consists in love. There it is said, ' : The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Tr e fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge : But fools despise wisdom and instruction." And unto man he said, " The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...beginning of wisdom ; a good understanding have they that do his commandments. Prov. i. 7, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction ; and ix. 10, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the... | |
 | Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...understanding wisdom is found : but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Fools die for want of wisdom. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...proverb, and the interpretation ; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. 7. The fear(£) of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge : but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8. " My son, hear the in" struction of thy father, and forsake not " the law of thy mother... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English prose literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...and will increase learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge ; but fools despise wisdom and instruction. When wisdom shall enter thy heart, and knowledge be pleasing to thy soul, discretion shall... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...proverb, and the interpretation ; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. 7. The fear (p) of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge : but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8. " My son, hear the instruction " of thy father, and forsake not the law " of thy mother... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...lie should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it,' 1 — said also, that " The fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge : but fools despise •wisdom and instruction."* And what are we to expect from those children, "who, "instead of being led, at the beginning... | |
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extreme. Let us open the book, and see what kind of jests it contains ; take the very first as a specimen—" The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction."—Do you perceive any jest in this ? The fear... 
