 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...r-emoveth ftone£ • fhall b« hurtrihefeWith : and' be that cteaveth wood fhall be endangered thereby. io If the iron' be blunt,' and he do not whet the edge, then muft he put to more ftrength : but wiftlom is profitable to direct. 1 1 Surely the ferpent will bite... | |
 | John Willison - Devotional exercises - 1793 - 336 pages
...love to wander from God, and are bent to bnckflide in duty, as the wife man fays, Ecclef. X. IO. ' If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then mufi he put -to more flrength.' Labour to heat the iron, feeing a blunt iron, if hot, will pierce more... | |
 | Barnaby (Uncle.) - 1799 - 374 pages
...a bad habit, however inveterate, may be broken through, if it is but set about in the right way. " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct," Eccles. x. 10. But there are innocent and rational indulgences... | |
 | John Willison - 1799 - 576 pages
...love to wander from God, and are bent to backilide in duty, as the wife man fays, Ecclef. x. 1C. " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then muft he put to more ftrength." Labour to heat the iron, feeing a blunt iron, if hot, will pierce more... | |
 | John Willison - 1799 - 586 pages
...love to wander from. God, and are bent to backfiide in duty, as the wife man fays, Ecclef. x. 10. " Jf the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then muft he put to more ftrength." Labour to heat the 'iron, feeing a blunt iron, if hot, wilt pierce more... | |
 | 1865 - 632 pages
...The manufacturer has now to compete with the invention of the whole world ; and as Solomon said, ' If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must ' he put to more strength, but wisdom is profitable to direct.' It was his sense of the pecuniary value of a great inventor which... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...belongs, and break the hedge and fence of public authority, will find 10 he does it to his own hurt. If the iron be blunt, and he do not •whet the edge, then must he put to more strength :* but wisdom [is] profitable to direct ; a man should exercise prudence in the common affairs of life... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith ; and he that cleavcth wood shall be endangered thereby10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct. 1 1 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment ; and a... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 pages
...point ; not fharp. — Thanks to that beauty, which can give an edge to the bluntejl fwords. Sidney — If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then muft he put to more tlrength. Ecclef. 2. Dull in understanding; not quick. — Valentine being gone,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. X. 10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct. Strength without wit prevails not: if the axe be blunt and want... | |
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If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct. 
