| Richard Barton - Analogy (Religion) - 1750 - 278 pages
...examples. Your ftate is very well defcribed by the Author of Ecclefiafticus : " How can he get wifdom that '' holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, *' that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their la*' bours, and whofe talk is of bullocks ? He giveth te his mind to... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...opportunity of leifure : and he that hath little bufmefs fhall become wife. 25 How can he get wifdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whofe talk is of bullocks ?• 26 He giveth his mind to... | |
| Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1794 - 408 pages
...himfelf either much en* lightened or much improved by them. How mould be get wifdom from fuch fources " that " holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the " goad ; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in *i their labours ; that giveth his mind to make " furrows, and is diligent... | |
| Great Britain - 1796 - 982 pages
...opportunity of leifure : and he that hath In., k butinefs, (hall become wife. How can he get wifdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whof.: talk is of bullocks ?" The whole of this chapter,... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 458 pages
...opportunity of leifure: and he " that hath little bufinefs fliall become wife."—" How can he " get wifdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the "goad; that driveth oxen; and is occupied in their labours; " and whofc talk is of bullocks?" Ver. 37. " So every carpenter... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...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, and whose talk is of bullocks? He-giveth his mind to make furrows;... | |
| John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 190 pages
...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, and whose talk is of bullocks ? He giveth his mind to make... | |
| Thomas Green Fessenden - United States - 1805 - 244 pages
...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 k occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks ? " He giveth his mind to make... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 pages
...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, and whose talk is of bullocks ?" The hurried manner, in which... | |
| Maxims - 1807 - 152 pages
...opportunity of leisure ; and he that hath little business shall become wise. 451. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks ? 452. He giveth his mind to... | |
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