| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 páginas
...shew favour to the righteous, and indignation to them who dishonour Him. Proverbs relating to the 1 A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger. 2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright : but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. 3... | |
| William Dodd - 1842 - 546 páginas
...openeth wide his lips, shall have destruction, &c. A righteous man hateth lying. — Prov. xiii. 3. 5. A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright : but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness, &c.... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 páginas
...the Bible," said Mr. Trueman, " a passage peculiarly applicable to the present case. It is this ; ' A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.' I have found this precept, in a life that has numbered more than double your years, to be one that... | |
| George Mogridge - 1842 - 346 páginas
...Hall; and the third, the General Hewitt Indiaman." " Did they go out to fight the Chinese?" text, ' A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.' It is in the book of Proverbs, I believe." " Yes, we remember it." " Well, Lord Amherst went out in... | |
| Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 páginas
...to be chosen than great riches. Pride goeth before destruction; and a haughty spirit before a fall. A soft answer turneth away wrath ; but grievous words stir up anger. Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he... | |
| John Keble - 1842 - 332 páginas
...from heaven ? When was conversion ever effected by compulsion ? Or what was it worth when effected? " A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger."] KING CHARLES THE MARTYR.* [JANUARY 30.] This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience towards God endure... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - 314 páginas
...whisperer separateth chief friends. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue Keepeth his soul from troubles. A soft answer turneth away wrath, But grievous words stir up anger. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright, But the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. I said,... | |
| Lady Caroline Eliza East - 1844 - 90 páginas
...Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." — Prov. xv. 17. " A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger." — Prov. xv. 1. " A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband." — Prov. xi i. 4. " A righteous man... | |
| 1844 - 498 páginas
...advance towards a consideration of the particular instruction which it here brings before us : — " A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger." The text consiste, as do the proverbs generally, of " two sentences joined in a kind of antithesis,... | |
| London missionary society - 1867 - 872 páginas
...her how much, better soft words sounded ; and, to make her remember this, she taught her the lost—" A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger." Little Birdie thought this a beautiful text, and so now, whenever she happens to get peevish, the worda... | |
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