 Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor,...  Fourth Reader: For Common Schools and Academies - Page 118by Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...The prayer of Agur furnishes a rare exception, and a pattern worthy of imitation. " Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die...riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...and extreme poverty often place our moral principles in the most imminent danger. ' Two things have J required of thee ; deny me them not before I die:...riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say. Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1824 - 434 pages
...himself and family, is the -very Jirtt duty of every man. " Two things," says AGUE, have I asked ; deny me them not before I die: remove far from me...riches; feed me with food convenient for me ; lest I be full and deny thee; or les>t I be poor and steal." 19. A good living, therefore, a competence,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:...riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name... | |
 | B. A. Ramsbottom - Strict Baptists - 1994 - 364 pages
...to such a poor, blind, empty, vile sinner, that I can feelingly join Agur, and say, "Two things have I required of Thee, deny me them not before I die....riches; feed me with food convenient for me; lest I be full, and deny Thee, and say, Who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name... | |
 | Luigi Zoja - Business & Economics - 1995 - 252 pages
...civilization. 141 10 THE CONTINUITY OF THE MYTH OF LIMITS: WESTERN STORIES The golden mean Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:...riches; feed me with food convenient for me; Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say Who is the Lord? (Proverbs, 30, 7) WHAT THE SERPENT KNEW For God... | |
 | Marcia Terrell - 1996 - 62 pages
...••.*•• ' C Dec. 1870 The Cause of Disease Mrs. EGWhite "The prayer of Agur is instructive: "Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither...riches; feed me with food convenient for me; lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be Poor, and steal, and take the name... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Fiction - 1998 - 458 pages
...epidemic of 1633. 7. Agur's prayer is recorded in Proverbs 30.1-33. Perhaps relevant here is the verse: "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither...poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me" (30.8). 8. Absalom, third son of David, slew his half-brother Amnon for having raped Absalom's sister... | |
 | Quatrains, Persian - 2000 - 276 pages
...quotation from some spurious Gospel. Roas refers to Proverbs, chap. xxx. ver. 7, 8, 9, " Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:...riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord ? or lest I bo poor, and steal, and take the name... | |
 | Robert Nye - Authors' spouses - 2000 - 236 pages
...using it to swat the fly that had come into the kitchen, I discovered I'd completely lost my appetite. Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither...poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me (Proverbs, 30, viii) . Mr Shakespeare was born with poor unhappy brains for drinking. He lay between... | |
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