 | George Rogers - 1839 - 396 pages
...received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed man." (Prov. xxiv. 30 — 34.) Let these testimonies suffice out of many, very many ; they are enough to... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...thy sleep ? — Yet a little sleep, a little •lumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: — So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 2. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man that had not on a wedding-garment:... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...received instruction. Yet a little -Lep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed man. If a man he idle, he will soon come to want ; but a poor man, if he be industrious, and sober, and... | |
 | Edward Bather - 1840 - 586 pages
...received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed man." Here was great disorder already come to pass, and inevitable ruin close at hand, and sloth the sole... | |
 | 1840 - 488 pages
...received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed man," Prov. xxiv. 30, 34. The provincialisms that are common in villages often give a character to the discourse... | |
 | George Rogers - 1840 - 410 pages
...received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little fljding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed man." (Prov. xxiv. 30 — 34.) Let these testimonies suffice out of many, very many; they are enough to establish... | |
 | Natural history - 1840 - 180 pages
...rather to mean " riders on swift dromedaries." (See Engraving, No. 46.) And also in Prov. vi. 1 1 : "So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man." The term "armed man," is said to bear rendering, "a ash- are -rider," or "rider on the Maherry." The... | |
 | Beaumont Square Chapel, Mile End (LONDON), John Thomas Barber Beaumont - 1840 - 204 pages
...out of thy sleep?— Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.—Chap. X., 1. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.—4.... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 pages
...bed an hour or two in tho morning, ¡в order to ruminate upon the pleasure of having nothing todo through the day, is alluded to by Solomon in no very...want as an armed man.' Are poverty and want the chief elemente of happiness? Kveu the weaker sex are exhorted to be up betime« and doing. The pattern wife... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...received instruction. — Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. SECTION 6. WHEN we are tempted to do a wrong action, we ought to think that, though men may be afar... | |
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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 
