 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 708 pages
...highest terms : — " Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding : For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than pure gold. She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared... | |
 | Gregory Townsend Bedell - Conversion - 1834 - 140 pages
...embraced, is more rich than rubies, and infinitely more valuable than diamonds of the purest water ; " the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold." " Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." " Length of days is in her right... | |
 | Religion - 1834 - 496 pages
...Happy, thrice happy the youth that findeth wisdom, while he ia yet sheltered by the parental roof; for "the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies ; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 330 pages
...make it his own. " Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 pages
...wisdom of God. " Happy then is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto... | |
 | Religion - 1834 - 400 pages
...Happy, thrice happy the youth that findeth wisdom, while he is yet sheltered by the parental roof; for "the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies ; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto... | |
 | Charles Pleydell Neale Wilton - Prisoners - 1834 - 114 pages
...up mire and dirt. " Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man thatgetteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof, than fine gold ; it is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou canst desire, are not to be compared unto... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1835 - 764 pages
...places, both natural and spiritual wisdom may be intended: and again, in the verse before my text, " The merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold : she is more precious than rubies ;" and then it follows, " All the things thou canst desire are not... | |
 | Charles Edward Kennaway - 1835 - 470 pages
...if not the chief, of God's best and greatest gifts to man. If of wisdom it hath been written, " that the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold : that she is more precious than rubies ; and that all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 696 pages
..."that happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding! For the merchandize of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold! she is more precious than rubies; and all the things you can desire are not to be compared to her.... | |
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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. 
