...prudent,' xv. 5. " Dutiful children are a comfort, and nndutiful, a discomfort to religious parents. ' A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother,' Prov. x. 1. ' The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice ; and he that begetteth a wise child,...

...xv. 5. " Dutiful children are a comfort, and undutiful, a discomfort to religious parents. ' A wist son maketh a glad father ; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother,' Prov. x. 1. ' The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice ; and he that begetteth a wise child,...

...knowledge, soon exhaust their scanty stock, and utter not merely useless bat even injurious things. Again, A wise son maketh a glad father : But a foolish son is the heaviness or his mother. Prov. x. 1. Both the father and mother are to 'be understood in the two members of this...

...wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach. 7 A wise son maketh a glad father ; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. MASTERS AND SERVANTS. * Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal, forbearing threat-...

...turneth to wind. " Filius sapiens laetificat patrem : filius vero stultns moestitia est matri sure." Here is distinguished, that fathers have most comfort of the good proof of their sons j but mothers have most discomfort of their ill proof, because women have little discerning of virtue,...

...says, " The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion." — Another ? "A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother," &c. H QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION, EITHER ORALLY OR BY MEANS OF WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS. THE OFFICE 1. What...

...twentieth are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices. TH E proverbs of Solomon. a A wise son maketh a glad father : but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 2 b Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. 3 c The LORD will...

...fulfilled the expectations and desires of their hearts, by walking in the paths of virtue and religion? 'A wise son maketh a glad father : but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.' O beware then of embittering the life of your parenU, either by your indifference about religion or...

...If thou art wise', thou shalt be wise for thyself; but if thou scornest', thou alone shalt bear it. A wise son maketh a glad father'; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand'; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. The memory...

...account of him see Wolf, " Biblioth. Heb." Vol. I. p. 944. And in the tenth chapter of Proverbs ; " i A wise son maketh a glad father ; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 9 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing ; But righteousness dclivereth from death. 3 The Lord will...