| Philip Doddridge - 1804 - 630 páginas
...same mind, that we may bear it with a truly Christian forti16tude. May Divine grace teach us to mingle the wisdom of the serpent with the innocence of the dove, and to shelter ourselves from the ill usage of a perverse and sinful generation, so fur only as we can... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 448 páginas
...rises in proportion to our sub" mission ?" They informed him, that Epiphanius, bishop of Paviaf? united the wisdom of the serpent with the innocence of the dove ; and appeared confident, that the eloquence of such an -ambassador must prevail against the strongest opposition,... | |
| 1826 - 370 páginas
...quartered at his house. These one day obliged him to preach before them, when he so happily mingled the wisdom of the serpent, with the innocence of the dove, and preached with so much caution and honesty, that the captain threw up his commission, and quitted the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 páginas
...rises in propor" tion to our submission?" They informed him, that Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia, united the wisdom of the serpent with the innocence of the dove; and appeared confident, that the eloquence of such an ambassador must prevail against the strongest opposition,... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Danby - 1829 - 138 páginas
...accommodates, he must take care, as far as he can, to "keep himself unspotted by it;" mixing as much as he can of the "wisdom of the serpent with the innocence of the dove." " Ubi istum invenias, qui honorem amici anteponat suo ?" Probably no where; nor would the " anteponere"... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1832 - 586 páginas
...same mind, that we may bear it with a truly Christian fortitude. May Divine grace teach us to mingle the wisdom of the serpent with the innocence of the dove, and to shelter ourselves from the ill usage of a perverse and sinful generation, so far only as we can... | |
| Edward Young, William Danby - 1832 - 306 páginas
...accommodates, he must take care, as far as he can, to " keep himself unspotted by it;" mixing as much as he can of the " wisdom of the serpent with the innocence of the dove." " Ubi istum invenias, qui honorem amici anteponat suo ?" Probably no where; nor would the " anteponere"... | |
| 1835 - 664 páginas
...temper and conduct, in the whole, course of public and private life; and that you may know how to mix the wisdom of the serpent with the innocence of the dove. And consider it as the means of establishment and increase in all grace and holiness, in all faith and... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks - 1836 - 634 páginas
...undeviating regularity, with a firmness and a constancy, which no events can shake. It is time to unite " the wisdom of the serpent with the innocence of the dove." And it is fortunate that these measures, which expediency may seem to •uggest, or particularly to require,... | |
| William Sellon - 1841 - 152 páginas
...humour of every insidious inquirer. When he was pleased to give answers to their questions, he joined the wisdom of the serpent with the innocence of the dove; and, while he gave them no advantage over him, sent them away amazed at the quickness of his invention,... | |
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