 | Maxims - 1807 - 152 pages
...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 make furrows, and is diligent to... | |
 | sir Alexander Boswell (1st bart.) - 1810 - 76 pages
...listen to the wisdom of the Son of Sirach: " 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, and is diligent to... | |
 | George Ensor - Political science - 1810 - 480 pages
...any political situation. " How," says Solomon, " can he get wisdom, that holdcth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad ; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours ? &c. So every carpenter and work-master, that laboureth night and day, &c. They shall not... | |
 | Sir Alexander Boswell - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1810 - 76 pages
...to the wisdom of the Son of Sirach : " How can he get wisdom that holdetli **' 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, and is diligent to... | |
 | Edward Christian - Criminal law - 1820 - 148 pages
...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 P He giveth his mind to make furraivs ; and is diligent to give... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...little business shall become wise." — " HO-.V 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!" Ver. 27. " So every carpenter and work-master, that )aboureth... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 416 pages
...improved by them. How should Tie get wisdom from such sources, "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 ?" *... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Amusements - 1827 - 918 pages
...that hath little business shall become wise, flow 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 ? — So every carpenter, and workmaster, that laboureth night... | |
 | Basil Hall - Atlantic States - 1829 - 444 pages
...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 ; and is diligent to... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Christian life - 1832 - 450 pages
...daily toil of the labourer and the mechanic. 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 about bullocks ? Every carpenter and workmaster, the smith sitting by his... | |
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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, and whose... 
