 | 1611 - 360 pagine
...thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well : I looked upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding...one that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed man. THESE are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. IT is the glory... | |
 | David Morrice - 1801 - 328 pagine
...the instance of the ant : Go to the ant, thou sluggard (says that wisest of kings and moral writers), consider her ways, and be wise, which having no guide,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. I may also further observe to you, that if you lavish what you have to spare, you rob the poor, and... | |
 | 1877 - 594 pagine
...Palestine was one cannot definitely say ; the oft-quoted passage in the Bible, ' Go to the ant, thou sluggard : consider her ' ways and be wise ; which,...the summer, and gathereth her 'food in the harvest' (Prov. vi. 6-8 ; see also xxx. 25), has been generally supposed to imply that the Jews held that the... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pagine
...biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. On Industry and Sloth. Proverbs. Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise: which having...her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard ? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ? Yet a little sleep, a little sfumber, a little... | |
 | John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - 1804 - 190 pagine
.... Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse /?/>.? put far from thee. Go to the «»/, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise : Which,...provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her focd in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 262 pagine
...provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O Sluggard ? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ?...hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travaileth, and thy want as an armed man." Proverbs, chap. vith. One more quotation and I have done.... | |
 | Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - 1807 - 388 pagine
...thereof was broken down. Then I saw and considered it well, I looked upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding...hands, to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travaileth, and thy want as an armed man." Such is the consequence of a slothful, delaying spirit,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 558 pagine
...Foolish Virgins, their entrance ; Matt. xxv. 5. How long, then, a1/// f/iou sleep, O sluggard ? when witt thou arise out of thy sleep ? Yet a little sleep,...hand-s to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that tra•caileth, and thy want as an armed man. (c.) As for sports, when they take up so much time and... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 554 pagine
...field, or to lay up for winter ; but these things are man's duty ; as Prov. vi. 6. " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : Which,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." And chap. x. 5. &c. " He that gaihereth in summer is a wise son ; but he that sleepeth in harvest,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 540 pagine
...field, or to lay up for winter ; but these things are man's duty ; as Prov. vi. 6. " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : Which,...provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her in the harvest." And chap. x. 5. &c. " He that gathereth in summer is a wise son ; but he that sleepeth... | |
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 
