| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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 and work-mafter... | |
| John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 190 pages
...and remedy to prolonoHe that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician. The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity...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 ;... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profoundei than the great deep. From the same. The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity...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... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 pages
...least, a schoolmaster. " The wisdom of a learned man," says an authority not lightly to be despised, " cometh by opportunity of leisure ; and he, that hath,...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 the sermons... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1805 - 692 pages
...least, a schoolmaster. " The wisdom of a learned man," says an authority not lightly to be despised, " cometh by opportunity of leisure ; and he, that hath...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... | |
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