Talált 261 Eredmények: Precious Stone Pavement

• Pay a fool reverence, thou hast wasted one more stone on Mercury’s cairn. (Proverbs 26, 8)

• What is more crushing than stone, more burdensome than sand? A fool’s ill humour. (Proverbs 27, 3)

• Stone crushes his foot that stone carries, and wood scratches him that wood cuts. (Ecclesiastes 10, 9)

• But there are men more wretched yet, men who repose all their confidence in a world of shadows. They give the name of god to what is made by human art, gold and silver that human workmanship has turned into the likeness of living things, blocks of senseless stone that human hands have carved, long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)

• Precious as an ornament of gold, close-fitting as a bracelet to the right arm, is instruction to a wise man. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 24)

• What ill names shall we hurl at the sluggard? Stone from the sewers, that has no man’s good word; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 1)

• One stone flung, and the birds are all on the wing; one taunt uttered, and the friendship is past repair. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 25)

• None can throw stone in air but at his own head’s peril, nor ever was blow struck treacherously, but the traitor must have his share of hurt; (Ecclesiasticus 27, 28)

• a man may fall into the pit he dug, trip on the stone he set in his neighbour’s path, perish in the snare he laid for another. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 29)

• The life of such as fear the Lord is held precious, and wins a blessing from his regard; (Ecclesiasticus 34, 14)

• He had but to lift his hand, and the stone aimed from his sling brought low the pride of Goliath; (Ecclesiasticus 47, 5)

• Let the hour of peril consecrate you to him; for the rest, both in Israel and in Juda, it will be a stone to trip men’s feet, a boulder that catches them unawares.✻ A trap, a fine snare, for the citizens of Jerusalem; (Isaiah 8, 14)