 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 páginas
...observation, which the wise prince doth prompt us to mark ; ' Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men :' that is, diligence, as it is the fairest, so it is the surest way to the best preferment : as it... | |
 | 1832 - 508 páginas
...Trinity College, Cambridge, and Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester. " Seest thou a man diligent in business, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men." Mr. Robinson commenced his residence at Cambridge in Oct. 1768, and was soon regarded as a student... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 páginas
...pleasure, and teach his senators wisdom. Ps. cv. 21, 22. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. I'f. xxii. 29. Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 páginas
...that honour or dignity predicted by Solomon, when he said, " Seest thou a man diligent in business, he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." Yet I had, by that time, arrived at the honour of standing before, and intimately conversing and corresponding... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1833 - 100 páginas
...day long : but the righteous giveth, and spareth not." " Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men." " The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty : and drowsiness shall cover a man with rags."... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - 428 páginas
...that honour or dignity predicted by Solomon, when he said, " Seest thou a man diligent in business, he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." Yet I had, by that time, arrived at the honour of standing before, and intimately conversing and corresponding... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - 1833 - 512 páginas
...of diligence, and often put him in mind of these words: "Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? He shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." 1 He entered College at the age of twelve years. When the year arrived, in which he was to take his... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 páginas
...dwelling of the wise ; but a foolish man spendeth it up. 38 Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. 39 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him. 40 Wealth gotten by vanity... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 páginas
...established in the place before me. My circumstances however grew daily easier. My original habits of frugality continuing, and my father having among...frequently repeated a Proverb of Solomon, " seest tíiou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men,"... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 páginas
...and in order.' ' The hand of the diligent maketh rich.' ' Seest thou a man diligent in hit business! He shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men.' " To these might be added innumerable admonitions and arguments, drawn from scripture, from reason,... | |
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Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men... 
