...himself ample credit for the judgement which leads him to refrain from exertion. For " the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." He is a social nuisance, a domestic incubus, a drone in the hive. His advantages pass by unimproved,...

...greater just in proportion to their ignorance. It is not the learned and polite, but the fool, that is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Among the simple-hearted rustics, as you call them, I could point out to you men as ignorant as brutes,...

...Eccles. x. 18. As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed, &c. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason. — Prov. xxvi. 14. 16. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread : but he that followeth...

...little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep." And, which is the greatest evil, " That he is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." And lastly, when vigour and youth shall cease, that Want, like an armed man, will rush, The hoary head...

...slothful hideth his hand in his bosom ; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. 10 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog...

...for God, yet hope to come off as well as those that take so much pains in religion. Thus the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Prov. xxvi. 18. This servant thought that his account would pass well enough, because he could say,...

...J Tenacity with which the two characters hold their opinions 1 Solomon's remark 1 '• The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." The process of mind which we call reason or judgment, therefore, seems to be essentially the same,...

...a man wise in hia own conceit ; there is more hope of a fool than of him. — Ver. 16. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render (reason. xxviii. 1 1. The rich man is wise in hia own conceit Ver. 26. He that trusteth in his own...

...Scripture, it is the fool who hath said in his heart, there is no God; and the same Scripture says, The fool is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason; and, though you bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among wheat, yet will not his folly depart from...

...itself, or from those who are under it. Fools are not sensible of their folly. Solomon says, " The fool hat they would, agreeably to Jer. xvjii. 7, 8 : " At what instant I sh Prov. xxvi. 16. The most barbarous and brutish heathens are not sensible of their own darkness ; are...