 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, and whose...  The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke - Page 296by Edmund Burke - 1877Full view - About this book
 | 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 make furrows : and is diligent... | |
 | 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 make furrows : and is diligent... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...leifure : and he that hath " liltle bufinefs fhall become wife." — " How can he get wifdom " lhat holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad ; that " driveth oxen ; and is occupied in their labours ; and whofe talk •' is of bullocks ?" Ver. 27. " So every carpenter and work-mafter that... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1794 - 404 pages
...himfelf either much enlightened or much improved by them. How mould he get wifdomfrom fuch fources " that " holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the...goad ; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in " their labours ; that giveth his mind to make " furrows, and is diligent to give the kine " fodder *." Very... | |
 | 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 to give the kine " fodder... | |
 | 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, the thirty-eight, is woithy of... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...and her counsels profoundei than the great deep. From the same. The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little...goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks? He-giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give... | |
 | John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 190 pages
...sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician. The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little...goad., that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks ? He giveth his mind to make furrows ; and is diligent to give... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 pages
...schoolmaster. " The wisdom of a learned man," says an authority not lightly to be despised, " cometh by opportunity of leisure ; and he, that hath, little...goad ; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks ?" The hurried manner, in which the sermons of oar clergy are... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - United States - 1805 - 244 pages
...Ecclesiasticus, Chap. XXXVIII. v. 24, to the end of the chapter : " The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure : and he that hath little...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 furrows :... | |
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