 Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first or second blow may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction...  Sunday: Reading for the Young - Page 3751884Full view - About this book
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...the danger of bad comfony — toa nail driven into a post; which, after the first, and second stroke, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers can take no buhl to draw it out ; which can be done only by the destruction of the wood. Maxime, l.... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1873 - 398 pages
...her beautiful motto better than ever, and that she is trying more earnestly to put it in practice. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which,...blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but once being driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out — it can only be done... | |
 | Horae - 1851 - 414 pages
...driven into a poft, which, after the firft and fecond blow may be drawn out with little difliculty ; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the definition of the wood. — ST. AUGUSTINE. Bad Soil. E that fows... | |
 | Christian - 1858 - 216 pages
...some persons who call themselves philosophers, who practise apathy and call it patience. — DALE. L BAD COMPANY. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first and second blow may be drawn out with little difficulty ; but being once driven up to the head, the... | |
 | George Seaton Bowes - 1860 - 478 pages
...20 ; xxviii. 19 ; Rom. xii. 2 ; 1 Cor. v. 6 ; xv. 33 : Eph. v. 1 1 ; Col. iv. 5. Xoscitur k sociis. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second hlow, may be drawn out with little difficulty ; but being driven up to the head, the pincers... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1870 - 626 pages
...darling, And say no more, " Farewell !" With Jesus, and our loved ones For evermore to dwell. FANNIE EG BAD COMPANY is like a nail driven into a post, •which after the first and second blows may be drawn out with little difficulty ; but being once driven up to the head, the... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...BÍ»IM¡> Coleridyt. COMPANIONS- Vicious. Wickod companions invite us to hell. COMPAWY-Bad. Fielding. Bad company is like a nail 'driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty ; but being once driven up to the head, the... | |
 | 1866 - 212 pages
...Israel." Pro/verbs xiii. 20. — "A COMPANION OF roots SHALL BE DESTROYED." 1525. Evil Companionship. — Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first and second blow may be drawn out with little difficulty ; but being once driven up to the head, the... | |
 | George Seaton Bowes - Anecdotes - 1864 - 510 pages
...63 ; Prov. iv. 14: xiii. 20; xxviii. 19; Rom. xii. 2; 1 Cor. v. 6; xv. 83; Eph. v. 11; Col. iv. 5. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being driven up to the head, the pincers... | |
 | Mary Carpenter - Criminals - 1864 - 470 pages
...on the walls at Lusk and elsewhere a passage from St. AUGUSTINE on bad company, as follows : — " ' Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may he drawn out with little difficulty, but being once driven up to the head, the... | |
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