 | 1611 - 360 էջ
...corrupt spring. It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search their own glory is not glory. He that hath no rule over his own spirit Is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour is not seemly for a fool. As the bird by wandering,... | |
 | William Clagett - 1720 - 554 էջ
...Happinefs even in this Life. SER. C 474 J SERMON XVII. The Government of the Pafficns. PRO V. XXV. xxviii. He that hath no Rule over his own Spirit, is like a City that is broken down* and without Walls. BY a Man's own Spirit here, which he ought to rule, is meant thofe Affeftions wherewith we variously... | |
 | Peter Brett - 1748 - 260 էջ
...xxvii. 4. Wrath is cruel, and Anger is outragious ; but who is able to lrand before Envy. Prov. xxv. 28. He that hath no Rule over his own Spirit, is like a City that is broken down and without Walls. Pro'v. xxix. 2o, 22, 23. Seeft thoa a Man that is hafly in his Words? There is more hope of a Fool,... | |
 | John Orr (Archdeacon of Ferns.) - 1749 - 440 էջ
...State of Mind, and can be found only in a Man, who has Prov. xxv. no Rule over his own Spirit , and is like a City that is broken down, and -without. Walls. ., £. A meek and quiet Spirit farther im» plies a fincere Delire of the Harmony and Happinefs of Society,... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1760 - 370 էջ
...Advantages of ruling our Paffions in this Manner. The wife Man has a very remarkable Proverb ; He that has no Rule over his own Spirit is like a City that is broken down, and without Walls ; a City in this Condition will be liable, at all Tirnes, to be furprifed by the Enemy ; And, in like Manner,... | |
 | 1867 - 964 էջ
...Prosperity || gains friends, adversity [j tries them. . Time || once passed || never returns. He I that hath no rule ' over his own spirit, is like a city ' that is broken down, and_without walls. Bettor ' is a dinner of herbe '. where love | is, than a stalled ox || and hatred... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1770 - 200 էջ
...or Government of them. By I. WATTS, DD The FIFTH EDITION, Corrected and Enlarged. PR 0 V. XX7. 28. He that hath no Rule over his own Spirit, is like a City that is broken down, and without Walls. LONDON: Printed for J. BUCKLAND, and T. LONGMAN, in Pater-nofter-Row; E. and C. DULY, in the Poultry;... | |
 | Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1771 - 470 էջ
...themfelves open without Defence, and verify the Saying of the wife King : He that hath no Rule over his oien Spirit, is like a City that is broken down, and without Walls c. Nothing requires more Coolnefs, than what ufually raifes the moft Heat : meeting with unreafonable... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1788 - 518 էջ
...himfelf from not governing his paffions. Solomon fays, " He that hath no rule over his own *' fpirit is like a city that is broken down, ".and without walls." — A city in this ftate affords a fcene of confufion and ruin i and fuch, Solomon fays, is the ftate of... | |
 | Barnaby (Uncle.) - 1799 - 374 էջ
...uncle had on his four hundred ; and he would not he dictated to by the greatest lord in the land. " A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger," Prov. xv. 1. Uncle Barnaby adopted the former method of dealing with his angry neighbour, and its efficacy... | |
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He that hath no rule over his own spirit, is- like a city that is broken down, and without walls. A soft answer turneth away wrath ; but grievous words stir up anger. 
