 | William Jay - Calendars - 1833 - 722 pages
...always truth. David indeed erred when he said in his haste — all men are liars ; yet too commonly "men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie." But even Balaam could say, " The Lord is not a man that be should lie ; neither the son of man that... | |
 | Ebenezer Ireson - Methodism - 1833 - 392 pages
...monarch, when surveying the moral character of many around him, said, ' Surely men of low degree arc vanity, and men of high degree are a lie ; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.' In this quotation, the two ranks of men named, are... | |
 | William Beckford - Italy - 1834 - 648 pages
...borrowed from the Jews, had probably its origin in the figurative language of Scripture. Thus Psalm Ixii. 9. — " Surely men of low degree are vanity,...and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity ;" — and, in Daniel, the sentence against the King... | |
 | William Beckford - 1834 - 414 pages
...borrowed from the Jews, had probably itt origin in the figurative language of Scripture. Thus, Psalm Ixii. 9.—" Surely men of low degree are vanity,...and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity;" — and, in Daniel, the sentence against the King... | |
 | Francis Close - Sermons, English - 1834 - 462 pages
...not."* " His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. "f " Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity ."J How strange it is that a being manifestly so frail... | |
 | John Mott - 1834 - 23 pages
...been beheld soaring above the real participation of those enjoyments for which they seem to aim. " Surely, men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." Surely, nothing but a life of rectitude, the result... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1834 - 590 pages
...speculate with sin, and at all times degrading : how contemptuously is it said in the b.ii. Psalm, " Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. Fourthly, because it is mischevious. It is, for the most part, so intended, and very often it leatjs... | |
 | Thomas Bissland - Sermons, English - 1835 - 434 pages
...of Herod, of the truth of the psalmist's declaration—" Surely every man walketh in a vain show." " Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity." In such striking instances of human frailty, we behold... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 772 pages
...from the brink of another world, and amid the shadows of the grave. His discourse upon the text — Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie — is full of ingenuity, argument, and eloquence. " But to take it of a whole body of such men, men... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1835 - 432 pages
...put off their very selves as a disguise. This is agreeable to the language of Scripture elsewhere, ' Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie,' ' &c. In two respects may the present state of man seem to approach near to nothingness, and so admit... | |
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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 
