 | 1611 - 360 pagine
...a fool. As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, So the curse causeless shall not come. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the fool's back. Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pagine
...return upon him. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. He thatjustifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pagine
...than from the flying of a bird over his head ; 3 it fixes no where e.Trept upen him that uttered it. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back ; a foolish wicked man must be taught and restrained by se4 теге method» ; no others... | |
 | James Beresford - 1807 - 332 pagine
...frontispiece, STULTIFERA MAVIS, Qua omnium Mortalium narratur stultina. THE SHIP OF FOOLS. jErae Perennius. A Whip for the Horse, a Bridle for the Ass, and a Rod for the Fools Back. Printed for William Miller, Albemark Strtef. fcir. JUL ... | |
 | Sir Richard Colt Hoare - 1807 - 474 pagine
...STULTIFERA NAV1S; Qua omnium mortalium narratur Stultilia, THE MODERN SHIP OF FOOLS. jERE PERENNIUS. A Whip for the Horse, a Bridle for the Ass, and a Rod for the Fool'i Back. SOLOMON. NB This Work is printed elegantly in Foolscap Octavo, price Eight Shillings,... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 584 pagine
...horse or mule, having no understanding, or, as is fully expressed in the xxvilh chapter of Proverbs, A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod fur the fuel's hack. As I take it, my Lord, the word fool has a moral sense also, and signifies a scoundrel... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pagine
...fool. 2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. moki J fool's back. 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer... | |
 | 1810 - 602 pagine
...horse or mule, having no understanding, or, as is fully expressed in the xxvith chapter of Proverbs, A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. As I take it, my Lord, the word fool has a moral sense also, and signifies a scoundrel... | |
 | John Monk (of Chester, England.) - 1810 - 118 pagine
...taken, so applica. ble to your vain boasts, and where you will find npon record, for your instruction, " a whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool'* back."— The truths contained there are plain, he that runs may read, and in the study of them,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 456 pagine
...wisdom of this world in a pulpit, only exalteth folly; and God will visit it with a rod. He keeps " a whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back." I deny not but a man of gifts and learning may be of use to inform a person's judgment,... | |
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A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. 
