...THE READERS OF SHAKSPEARE. BvxTHJLRSITES LITERARIUS. HJL jra VERUM ATQUE DECENS. HOR. ANSWER A FOOL ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY, LEST HE BE WISE IN HIS OWN CONCEIT. PROV. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HENRY PAYNE, OPPOSITE TO MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE, PALL-MALL. M-DCC-LXXXIV. FAMILIAR...

...king Solomon, " Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like him : answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit," by observing, that " the defender of reirgion should not imitate the insulter of st, in his modes of...

...will do. Answer not a fool according to 5 his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit ; do not answer every imfiertinent sfieech or accusation of a clamorous fool ; it is the better way...

...God, be roused up, and every now and then say to itself, " Behold this beautiful starry heaven, &c." But because we have too many of that sort of fools,...this subject ; but, on the contrary, a .very pleasant exer* Primum visibile lux, & primum intelligibile Dcus. f Esse nostrum est Deum cognoscere. | Esse...

...wherein he provofceth thee, lest thou declare thyself to be as very a fool as he. XXVI. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. In a discreet and sober manner take up a fool roundly, and convince him of his absurd cavils and proud...

...back. 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool ug K 6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage. 7 The...

...vi. 9. Tit. iii. 9. 3R2 not a fool according to his folly, lest thou bt like unto him ; answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit : we ought never to answer a fool in a foolish manner, and sometimes not at all ; but it is proper...

...for we shall certainly be saved. To this objection it may be replied, Solomon says, " Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." It is believed the objector will have no reason to complain, if he be answered according to this direction...

...Solomon's as sharp and cutting, I dare say, as any of the Spaniards, or any other people. "•Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. Seest thou a man wise in his owi conceit, there is more hope of a fool than of him." That Dr. Franklin...

...ANSWER NOT a fool (says he) according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. AN sw ER a Fool according to his folly,. lest he be wise in his own conceit *. Short, isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts...