 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and...occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks? He-giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder. So every carpenter and... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 pages
...despised, " cometh by opportunity of leisure ; and he, that hath, little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and...occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks ?" The hurried manner, in which the sermons of oar clergy are at present necessarily composed, not... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1805 - 692 pages
...little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom thatholdeth the plough, and that glorietk in the goad ; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks ?" The hurried manner, in which the sermons of our clergy are at present necessarily composed, not... | |
 | Maxims - 1807 - 152 pages
...learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure ; and he that hath little business shall become wise. 451. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and...occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks ? 452. He giveth his mind to make furrows, and is diligent to give the kine fodder. o 453. So every... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure : and he that hath little business shall become wise." — " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and...occupied in their labours ; and whose talk is of bullocks ?" Ver.27. " So every carpenter and work-master that labourcth night and day,'' &c. Ver. 33. " They... | |
 | sir Alexander Boswell (1st bart.) - 1810 - 76 pages
...other, " to ue sure ;—don't you know that I have a library " sixty feet long?" NOTE 4. PAGE 18. " To such as me, though wisdom is denied." In proof...mind to " make furrows, and is diligent to give the kiu« " fodder."—Ecclesiasticus, chap, xxxviii. «.25.26.— Intelligence, however, is spreading... | |
 | Sir Alexander Boswell - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1810 - 60 pages
...for Sapient disquisition, let us listen to the wisdom of the Son of Sirach: " How can he jetwisclom that holdeth " the plough, and that glorieth in the...to "-*- make furrows, and is diligent to give the kioe " fodder."—Ecclesiasticus, chap, xxxviii. vK 26.— • Intelligence, however, is spreading... | |
 | Sir Alexander Boswell - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1810 - 76 pages
...disquisition, let us listen to the wisdom of the Son of Sirach : " How can he get wisdom that holdetli **' the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that "...mind to " make furrows, and is diligent to give the kins 37 " fodder."— Ecclciiasticus, chap, xxxviii. v.te. 26.— Intelligence, however, is spreading... | |
 | 1818 - 354 pages
...wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough) and that glorieth in the goad ; that driveth oxenj and is occupied in their labours; and whose talk is of bullocks ?" The whole of this chapter, the thirty-eighth, is worthy of perusal. It is supposed, but unjustly,... | |
 | Edward Christian - Criminal law - 1820 - 148 pages
...a learned mancometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and...occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks P He giveth his mind to make furraivs ; and is diligent to give the kine fodder. So every carpenter... | |
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The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise. — " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driveth oxen; and is occupied in their labours;... 
