 | 1830 - 524 頁
...the unaffected manner in which it has given its sanction to their already formed opinions. ' Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird.' It must be one of those simple fowl which voyagers chronicle by names indicative of their stolidity,... | |
 | 1832 - 468 頁
...that see shall not be dim (Isai. xxxii. 3). Laodicea shall esteem herself exactly what she is not. " In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird" (Prov. i. 17); but except she see, she shall be taken. Her eye shall be that which hath never seen... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1833 - 404 頁
...manifests the wiles of sin and satan; even to such a degree, that some have reason to say, " Surely in vain is the net spread, in the sight of any bird." In the year 1714, our worthy friends, Thomas Wilson and James Dickinson, came into this province, on... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1833 - 478 頁
...manifests the wiles of sin and satan; even to such a degree, that some have reason to say, " Surely in vain is the net spread, in the sight of any bird." In the year 1714, our worthy friends, Thomas Wilson and James Dickinson, came into this province, on... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1834 - 302 頁
...husband is given to drinking. Yet this picture of wretchedness checks not others ; and though surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird, yet the tipler.moro stupid than the fowls, drops into the first public house where he can get credit,... | |
 | 1834 - 1012 頁
...rule which he has suggested, we would refer him to the saying of the wise man, Prov. i. 17. " Sorely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Infidel writers bave been dangerous in proportion as they have taken care not to express the lengths... | |
 | Parsons Cooke - 1834 - 260 頁
...conscious of the influence of the devil upon them." And this is very true, and for a good reason. For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. But does our unconsciousness of satanic influence disprove it. Is Mr. B. conscious of that agency of... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 頁
...forbidding; and the pleasures of the world as smiling, sociable and enchanting. Lord, make me watchful. " In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Enable me to examine everything by the light of truth: to prove all things, and to hold fast that which... | |
 | 1835 - 312 頁
..."Soul-snares abound in this company!" " Beware of soul-birdlime in this room !" " Surely," aays Solomon, " in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." But man, less provident and more venturesome, is more easily caught. Take the following instances,... | |
 | John Wilkinson - 1836 - 536 頁
...God, which it is his continual prayer to be instructed by, is not to be caught by such a snare ; for " in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." And happy is it for those, who neither fall into the snare themselves, nor give countenance to notions... | |
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Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original. 
