| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 Seiten
...turns to idleness and laziness ; and bids the sluggard go to the ant, and learn wisdom from her ways. " Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." An instructive pattern of industry and forethought unto all, but more especially to the young; more... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 Seiten
...inflections marked, are presented for practical exercise. 1. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise; which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathcreth her food in the harvest. 2. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort,... | |
| Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 Seiten
...beg in harvest, and have nothing. Go to the ant, thou sluggard ! consider her ways, and be wise : who having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and lo... | |
| 1843 - 480 Seiten
...Spirit of God to describe the nature of the heavenly life. " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." " I went by," says Solomon, " the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1843 - 348 Seiten
...persons are compared with the diligent, ¿re, Prov. vi. 6 — 8. Go to the ant, "thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise: which having no guide, overseer...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. x. 26. As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him. xv.... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - 314 Seiten
...even all her living. LESSON LII. INDUSTRY RECOMMENDED. [Prov. 1. Go to the ant, knou stuggard Consider her ways, and be wise ; Which, having no guide, overseer,...the summer, And gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ? Yet a little sleep, a... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth - 1844 - 244 Seiten
...the Lord. Solomon, in his admirable book of Proverbs, says, " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise ; which having no guide, overseer,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." What we call nature, that is", the works of God in the creation, which' he first brought from nothing,... | |
| Henry Melvill - 1844 - 584 Seiten
...in this well-known address of Solomon to the indolent mau1 "Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise ; which having no guide, overseer,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." The sagacious king might have given us a long dissertation on the evil of slothfulness and the duty... | |
| My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 Seiten
...selects it to impart a fine reproof to the slothful : — ' Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; Consider her ways, and be wise : Which having no guide, overseer,...the summer, And gathereth her food in the harvest.' Prov. vi. 6. " Now, the excellence of all these creatures, my boys, is in their art and wisdom, not... | |
| William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 Seiten
...sends the fishing But you have to dig the bait. — Anonymous Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. — Old Testament Proverbs 6:6-8 You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. — Anonymous... | |
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