 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pages
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...in his work is brother to him that is a great waster." " Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? He shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." Christ condemns sloth in his own service, as in the sentence of the wicked and slothful servant in... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1833 - 100 pages
...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."... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - 1833 - 512 pages
...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... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...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... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 pages
...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 Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...business, who were established in the place before me. My circumstances however grew daily easier. My original habits of frugality continuing, and my...frequently repeated a Proverb of Solomon, " seest tÃiou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men,"... | |
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