| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...The full soul loatheth an honeycomb ; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.... | |
| 1806 - 416 pages
...hear some new preacher, who, you have perhaps been told, is a very extraordinary man. -" As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place." Such unsettled hearers seldom thrive. They usually grow wise in their own conceits, have their * This... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 488 pages
...prepare his work without, and then after, to build his house: and therewith stayedness; for, as a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his own place : and, which is the chief stay of his estate) thriftiness ; for He that troublcth his own... | |
| 1803 - 652 pages
...discreet, chaste, and one that kept at home *." Not like that person described by Solomon : — " As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place f-" He pursues- happiness ; but seeks it in a wrong situation. On the contrary, this woman was happy... | |
| 1815 - 614 pages
...The full soul loatheth an honeycomb ; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. 8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart : so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.... | |
| George Holden - 1819 - 538 pages
...The full soul loatheth an honeycomb ; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. 8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest; So is a man that wandereth from his place. 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart ; So doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.... | |
| 1819 - 576 pages
...dominions !" J.ll/lllllll. J. K, THE BIRD THAT FORSAKES HER NEST. Prov. xxvii. 8. As a bird that wandered« from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. IN DR. HODGSON'S elegant version of this book,* the passage is thus rendered :— " Like a bird that... | |
| William Gurnall - 1821 - 512 pages
...adventure is it to stay there, where you cannot expect his presence to assist, or protect? "Asa bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place," Prov. xxvii. 8. God took special care that the " bird sitting over her eggs in her nest" should not... | |
| 1841 - 1234 pages
...rolling stone gathers no moss," is quite applicable ; and so, too, is that inspired proverb, " As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place." We should have also, if possible, some place in the house of God which we can legitimately and properly... | |
| 1822 - 184 pages
...Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth : a stranger and not thine own lips, i As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. CHAP. XXVIII. WHOSO ca\iseth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into... | |
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