 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
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Conduct of life - 1884 - 648 pages
...his days a poor, outcast wretch. Live with the culpable and you will be apt to die with the criminal. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which,...may be drawn out with little difficulty, but, being drive;1, in to the head, it can only be withdrawn by the destruction of the wood. Be you ever so pureminded... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - Psychology - 1884 - 630 pages
...boasting and affected gaiety, a burden to himself. Shun him as you would a serpent in your path.'0 'Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first or second blow may be 1 P. 125. * P. 126. • P. 129 ' Aeschylus, Sept. e. Theb, 597. 4 Sir M. Hale. • Bishop W. II. Coleridge.... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 634 pages
...boasting and affected gaiety, a burden to himself. Shun him as you would a serpent in your path.' 6 ' Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first or second blow in;iy be 1 P. 125. * P. 126. ' P. 129 * Aeschylus, Sq,tc Thcb, 597. » Sir M. Hale. • Bishop W. II.... | |
 | Alfonzo Gardiner - 1884 - 186 pages
...Lesson 64.— Thursday Morn. Grammar. Write and Learn. Ex. 1. Analyse and Parse the words in italics. 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pages
...COMPANY (Bad)— Power of. Dad company is like a nail driven into ;-. post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty...head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. St. Augutline. COMPANY (Worldly) - Christian... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1888 - 328 pages
...is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first or second blow, may be drawn out with very little difficulty ; but, being once driven up to the...head the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, which can only be done by the destruction of the wood." Of course it is useless to define bad company.... | |
 | H. O. Mackey - Anecdotes - 1890 - 360 pages
...poverty-stroke to our endeavours to bless man. in. Companions, Bad. <(BAD company," wrote St. Augustine, " is like a nail driven into a. post, which, after the first or second blow, may be drawn out with very little difficulty : but being once driven up to the head the pincers cannot take hold to draw... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...compares to a nail driven Into a post with a hammer, which, after the first and second stroke, may bo drawn out with little difficulty, but being once driven up to the head, the pincers can take no hold to draw it out, which cannot be done but by the destruction of the wood. STEALING... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...contagious than health. — Cotton. There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host. — Lamb. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, mar be drawn out with little difficulty ; but being once driven up to the head, the... | |
 | Edwin Davies - Theology (Patristic) - 1899 - 496 pages
...when he is hurried away by his wickedness into evil deeds. — S. Gregory the Great. COMPANY.— Bad 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... | |
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