 | Benjamin Trumbull - 1810 - 122 Seiten
...minds and manners will be debauched, and you will bring endless misery upon yourselves. DEAR YOUTH, " Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go : keep her, for she is thy life. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it,... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 Seiten
...years of thy life shall be many. 1 1 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom ; I have le,d thee in right paths. 12 When thou goest thy steps shall not be straitened ; and when thou runnest, thou shall not stumble. 13 Take fast hold of instruction: letter not go: keep her: for she is thy life.... | |
 | 1845 - 624 Seiten
...your duties and your destiny ; and saying, as occasions open, and the map of providence unfolds — "Take fast hold of Instruction— Let her not go! Keep her! for she is thy Life." And trust Him too, for whom can you trust better than one whose self-communings have been thus summed... | |
 | 1815 - 614 Seiten
...the years of thy life shall be many. Ill have taught thee in the way of wisdom ; I have led thee in right paths. 12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened ; and when thou runnest, thou shah not stumble. 13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go : keep her ; for she it thy life.... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 Seiten
...Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getting understanding," ch. iii. 13. And, " Take fast hold of instruction. Let her not go. Keep her, for she is thy life," ch. iv. 13. If understanding and instruction are not persons, what reason is there to think that wisdom... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 Seiten
...of thy life shall be many. I have taught thee in the way of wisdom: I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Take fast hold of instruction : let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life. I shall address 1. YOUNG... | |
 | 1816 - 696 Seiten
...praise to the very reverend Author of the Sermon- now before us. His text is from Proverbs iv. l£. Take fast hold of Instruction, let her not go, keep her, for she is thy life. From this the subject divides itself into two parts ; the 1st, considering the -propriety of ^ducating... | |
 | John Brodhead Romeyn - 1816 - 460 Seiten
...Hence we find that righteousness encourages the cultivation of our mind, by commanding each one " to " take fast hold of instruction ; let her not " go: keep her: for she is thy life';" by constraining us "to know, and to search, " and to seek out wisdom and the reason of " things"1 ;"... | |
 | Samuel Cole, Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Maryland - 1817 - 462 Seiten
...her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened: and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand, nor to... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1817 - 52 Seiten
...neighhorhoods, and estahlish free lihraries, hy means of suhscriptions, and contrihutions of books. " Take fast hold of instruction ; let her not go ; keep her ; for she is thy life." I am not inclined to advise you to restrain yourselves from a rational indulgence in innocent athletic... | |
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When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; And when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life. 
