 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.  Essays on Petrarch - Page 69by Ugo Foscolo - 1823 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...arise 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. — Prov. vi. 6 — 11 ; xxiv. 33, 34. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand ; but the hand of the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Close - 1842 - 254 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. IN a country like that in which the Scriptures were written, no class of metaphors would be of more... | |
 | 1842 - 368 pages
...arise 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."* Ans. 1. It is sloth, idleness, that the wise man is rebuking ; not the conduct of those who labour... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...of thy sleep ? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a fro ward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eves, he speaketh... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 pages
...wise and good man consists in imitating the mechanical action of a door turning upon its hinges? ' So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.' Are poverty and want the chief elemente of happiness? Kveu the weaker sex are exhorted to be up betime«... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1843 - 188 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. " Frank Perkins will never do any good for himself by his idleness." " An idle man... | |
 | Ephraim HOLDING (pseud. [i.e. George Mogridge.]), George Mogridge - 1843 - 206 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. Who can gaze on the following portrait of the drunkard, without shrinking at the thought... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - 314 pages
...arise 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. He also that is slothful in his work Is brother to "him that is a great waster. The sluggard will not... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...received instruction. 33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 t and to keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man. saying. Of every tree CHAPTER 25 THESE ARE also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.... | |
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