 Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise ; their praise is costly, designing to get by those they bespeak ; they are the worst of creatures ; they lie to flatter, and flatter to cheat ; and, which is worse, if you believe them, you cheat yourselves...  Tracts ... - Page 9by New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Tract Association - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...in it; for, like drunkenness, it makes man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences. Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise; their praise is costly, designing to get byt hose they bespeak; they are the worst of creatures; they lie to flatter, and flatter to cheat;... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...in it; for, like drunkenness, it makes man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences. Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise; their praise is costly, designing to get byt hose they bespeak; they are the worst of creatures; they lie to flatter, and flatter to cheat;... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Great Britain - 1813 - 562 pages
...drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniencies. " Avoid ! " Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise...they bespeak ; they are the worst of creatures; they lye to flatter, and flatter to cheat ; and, which is worse, if you believe them you cheat yourselves... | |
 | 1813 - 662 pages
...for lik« drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences. "' Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise;...to get by those they bespeak ; they are the worst bf creatures ; they lie to flatter, and flatter to cheat ; and which i* worse, if you believe them... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 1112 pages
...like drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate incoo veniencies. i ""' Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise:...they bespeak; they are the worst of creatures ; they lye to flatter, and flatter to cheat ; and, which is worse, if you believe them, you cheat yourselves... | |
 | William Penn - Society of Friends - 1825 - 616 pages
...it makes a man a beast, and throws people h'to desperate inconveniencieg. • ' Avoid flat'erers ; for they are thieves in disguise ; their praise is...they bespeak ; they are the worst of creatures; they lye to flatter, and flatter to cheat : — and, which is worse, if you believe them, you cheat yourselves... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Quakers - 1827 - 392 pages
...their praise isc''stlv, designing to get by those they bespeak ; they are the wo-'st of creitures; thev lie to flatter, and flatter to cheat; and, •which is worse, if you beli 've them you cheat yourselves most dangerously. But the virtuous, though poor, love, cherish,... | |
 | Mrs. Hughs (Mary) - 1828 - 242 pages
...it; for, like drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences. "Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise...virtuous, though poor, love, cherish, and prefer. Remember David, who asking the Lord, ' Who shall abide in thy tabernacle1? who shall dwell upon thy holy hill1?'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...it; for, like drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences. flatterto Cheat ; and which ¡н worse, if you believe them, you chrat yourselves most dangerously.... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Children - 1833 - 242 pages
...be true, not wavering by reports, nor deserting in affliction, for that becomes not the good and the virtuous. — Watch against anger, neither speak nor...that David, asking the Lord, Who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? who shall dwell upon thy holy hill? answers, He that walketh uprightly, worketh righteousness,... | |
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