 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...  Reports - Page 182by New Hampshire - 1892Full view - About this book
 | 1876 - 1164 pages
...learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise." How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plow and that...occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks, or, as we may add, of the breed of bullocks and horses. able to buy their profession. Unfortunately,... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1860 - 436 pages
...the Apocrypha, viz., Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 25 : " IIow 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?" Head the whole. By-the-bye, the said EccJesiasticns might... | |
 | College of California - 1864 - 102 pages
...the Bible, " cometh by opportunity of leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plow and that...occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks." The opportunity of leisure which makes the learned man has indeed been small in California. When the... | |
 | 1864 - 448 pages
...circumstances. "His fault!" says the farmer, and say many men of whom better things might be expected. " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plow, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and ie occupied in their labors, .and whose talk is of bullocks ?" How? By "seeking her as silver, and... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 461 pages
...many men of whom better things might be expected. " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen,...occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks?" How? By "seeking her as silver, and searching for her as for hid treasures." For remember, O farmer... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 468 pages
...many men of whom better things might be expected. " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen,...occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks?" How? By " seeking her as silver, and searching for her as for hid treasures." For remember, O farmer!... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 604 pages
...little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that gloricth in the goad ; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks ? " Vcr. 27. " So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboreth night and day," &c. Ver. 33. " They... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1866 - 458 pages
...And he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough or glorieth in the goad, That driveth oxen and is occupied in their labours?'1 It was reserved for a yet lower stage in the selfglorying arrogance of Rabbinism to speak... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1867 - 848 pages
...by opportunity of leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise. How cau he get wiedom that holdeth the plow, and that glorieth in the goad,...oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk ¡e of bullocks? So every carpenter and work-master that laboreth night and day : and they that cnt... | |
 | George Herbert - 1867 - 90 pages
...farms. To the same end asks the son of Sirach, " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks." Ecclns. xxxviii, 25. XVII. This loss springs chiefly from... | |
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