 | Oliver Heywood - 1796 - 272 Seiten
...of this folicitude is unworthy the purfuit. If it could be gained, where would be the advantage ? " Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high...balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." But the favour of God is life ; his finile is felicity ; his frown is deftruftion. Heaven and earth... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1798 - 420 Seiten
...many warnings of the folly of thole who travel in the path of ambition, and put their truft in man. ' Surely men of low degree are ' vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. Put ' not your truft in princes, nor in the fon of man, ' in whom there is no help. Happy is he that... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1798 - 492 Seiten
...afluredly burn and dry it up, with our life that upholds it. Surely, faith the Pfalmift, men Pf. MI- 9i of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a sERM.//V: men of high degree; the mighty princes, the x. famous captains, the lubtile ftatefmcn, the... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 310 Seiten
...bay. tree ; uet he passed away, and lo, he was not : I sought kirn, out he c.mld not be found. Surety men of high degree are a lie, to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity. — I said, ye are Gods, and all of you are children of the most High : but ye shall die like men,—... | |
 | Thomas Case - 1802 - 184 Seiten
...when he comes for a draught of water to quench his thirst, sends him away with confusion and shame. Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie : Men of low degree would help, but cannot — there is vanity ; and men of high degree can help many... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 606 Seiten
...many warnings of the folly of thofe, who travel in the path of ambition, and put their truft in man. " Surely " men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree " are a lie. Put not your truft in princes, nor in the fou " of man, in whom there is no help. Happy is he that... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 Seiten
...another Psalm, to set forth the want of virtue in mankind of all orders and degrees, it is said, " Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high...balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." In opposition to this, the lowest, weakest, poorest good man, is a man of weight ; that is, of solid... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 Seiten
...another Psalm, to set forth the want of virtue in mankind of all orders and degrees, it is said, " Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid ia the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." In opposition to this, the lowest, weakest,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1805 - 380 Seiten
...bay-tree ; yet he passed away, and lo, he teas not : I sought him, but he could not be found. Surely men of high degree are a lie, to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity — / said, ye are Gods, and all of you are children of the most High : but ye shall die like men.... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 Seiten
...David from his own experience, tells us, that men of low degree are vanity, and men oj high degree a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. Try your friend then, before you trust in him ; for generally speaking, it is only where the carcase... | |
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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. 
