| Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 pages
...than I hat of Agur : " Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty ;ior riches ; iced me with food convenient for me. Lest I be full, and...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Prov. xxx.8, 9. Readfer, are you in the flower of life ? — study to be useful : now you have health,... | |
| Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...Agur prayed, " Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient : Jest I be full, and say, Who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Perhaps the middle ranks of society are the least exposed; but they have enough to do t6 keep " a conscience... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 342 pages
...poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Whp is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.' F 3 I shall fill the remaining part of my paper with a very pretty allegory, which is wrought into... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...teed me with food convenient for me : 9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say. Who is the Lo n D ? wife the Carmelite. 3 And his men that were with him did David bri 10 Accuse not a servant unto his Four wicked generations. CHAP. master, lest he curse thee, and thou... | |
| Thomas Beck - 1809 - 226 pages
...; feed mo with food convenient for me, lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, " Who is the Lord f" .or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Proverbs, xxs. 1, 8, 9. KEEP me, O Lord, until I die ! Enlighten'd fervent Agur cries ; From want too... | |
| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 pages
...Proverbs xxx. 9. Agur prays against pinching poverty, as well as superfluous riches ; Lest, saith he, / be poor, and steal, and take the Name of my God in vain. That is, lest poverty compel me to steal; and fear of shame or punishment tempt me to swear by the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...require^ And belter things than those which we desire. Dryd. Palnm. St Arc. Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me :...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Agur's Prayer. Prov. ch. xxj, v. 8, 9. INTRODUCTION. PERMIT me, Stanhope ', as I form'd thy youth To... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 614 pages
...kingdom, Prov. xxx. Therefore Agur presented this excellent prayer unto God, " Give me neither poverty nor riches •, feed me with food convenient for me...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Wretched man ! to what purpose dost thou labour so carefully to gather up riches for thy children ?... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 314 pages
...thee ; deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me :...and steal, and take the name- of my God in vain.' I shall fill the remaining part of my paper with a very pretty allegory, which is wrought into a play... | |
| Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1810 - 242 pages
...for ourselves, every wise man would say with Agur in the book of Proverbs,* " Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me, lest...poor^ and steal, and take the name of my GOD in vain." But He, who best knows what is fit for us, has not left us this choice. He has * Proverbs xxx. 8, 9.... | |
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