| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 pages
...at last it should end in their own ruin, as well as ours. Be not like the deaf adder, who refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. Although my letter be directed to you, Mr. Harding, yet I intend it for all my countrymen. I have no... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 pages
...at last it should end in their own ruin, as well as ours. Be not like the deaf adder, who refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. Although my letter be directed to you, Mr. Harding, yet I intend it for all my .countrymen. j> 4 I... | |
| Thomas Shaw - Africa, North - 1808 - 516 pages
...alludes to it (Psal. Iviii. 4, 5.) when he mentions the deaf adder, which stoppeth her ear, and refuseth to hear the -voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. The like is taken notice of Eccles. x. 11. Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment, and a... | |
| Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths ; smite the jawbones of die lions, O Lord : let them fall... | |
| George Pretyman - Calvinism - 1811 - 614 pages
...venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears ; which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely (q).' The excuse of a certain natural necessity in crimes is not admitted. For the Serpent might have... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...when David speaks of the ungodly as being ' like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears, and refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely,'" he addresses our understanding through the medium of the figure called simile. When on the other hand,... | |
| Scepticism - 1814 - 258 pages
...path of duty. And after all, " with all appliances and means to boot," they are but little disposed to ', hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." But we are not at liberty to relax in our endeavours after a great good, because success is uncertain... | |
| Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...their manifest disadvantage. "They are like to the deaf adder, which stoppeth her cars, and refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." As the following narrative seems to give an ingenious explanation of this passage in the Psalms, it... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 610 pages
...at last it should end in their own ruin, as well as ours. Be not like " the deaf adder, who refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." Although my letter be directed to you, Mr Harding, yet I intend it for all my countrymen. I have no... | |
| Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...venomous as the poison of a serpent : even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears ; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer : charm he never so wisely. 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths ; smite the jaw-bones of the lions, O Lord : let them fall... | |
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