| 1841 - 188 trang
...tongue, a little member, much smaller than the horse or ship, cannot be governed. He then tells us that " every kind of beasts and of birds, and of serpents,...the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind." But, alas, no man has ever tamed that little and apparently insignificant member, the tongue. He also... | |
| Old Humphrey - 1779 - 296 trang
...tongue, nor so untameable, for they may be subdued and made gentle as the lamb : " Every THE TONGUE. 45 kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and...the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind : but the tongue can no man tame," James iii. 7, '3. Dreadful is the plague when the leprous spot spreads... | |
| Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 trang
...though no naturalist, has well remarked, that " Every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind."* It is a satisfaction to me to find that a green lizard has actually been procured for you in Devonshire,... | |
| 1842 - 296 trang
...for a tongue submitting to no control. " For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." James iii. 7, 8. 6 teeth—... | |
| Philemon Stewart - 1843 - 248 trang
...defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,...the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind: 8. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of -deadly poison. 9. Therewith bless... | |
| Old Humphrey - 1843 - 264 trang
...not so fierce as the tongue, nor so untamable, for they may be subdued and made gentle as the lamb. " Every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,...the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind : but the tongue can no man tame," James iii. 7, 8. Dreadful is the plague when the leprous spot spreads... | |
| Philemon Stewart - 1843 - 440 trang
...defileth the wliole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,...the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind: 8. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9. Therewith bless... | |
| Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 trang
...though no naturalist, has well remarked, that " Every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind."* It is a satisfaction to me to find that a green lizard has actually been procured for you in Devonshire,... | |
| M. C. Best - 1844 - 204 trang
...Man's ingenuity has subdued the fiercest natures, and established the fact of its superiority, for " every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,...the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind," (James iii. 7;) and as we still further proceed, we shall perceive how he has completely rendered the... | |
| London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 712 trang
...beyond other members, yea, beyond every thing else : he speaks even despairingly of our mastering it : " Every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,...the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind : but the tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil." (James iii. 7, 8.) We find this by too sad... | |
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