 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...man saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets, &c. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. — Prov. xxii. 13.29. xxvi. 13. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. — Prov. xxiii. 21. I went... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 536 pages
...diligent in his business ?" said the most exact observer of human life, whom the world has ever seen, " he shall stand before kings : he shall not stand before mean men." To your immortal concerns these observations are applicable with equal force. To the very nature of... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 342 pages
...their own bread. If any man will not work, " neither should he eat." " Seest thou a man diligent " in his business ? He shall stand before kings, he " shall not stand before mean men." 'f Not slothful " in business ; fervent in spirit ; serving the Lord." (6) Contentment. " Give me neither... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 340 pages
...their own bread. If any man will not work, " neither should he eat.'' " Seest thou a man diligent " in his business ? He shall stand before kings, he " shall not stand before mean men." " Not slothful " in business ; fervent in spirit ; serving the Lord." (6) Contentment. " Give me neither... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 722 pages
...which the Prov. xxii. wise prince doth prompt us to mark ; Seest thou a man diligent in his business1? 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
...that is slothful 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... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pages
...of easy 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... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry. 2 Chr. xxvi. 10. Seest thuu a man diligent in his business ? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. Pr. xxii. 29. Cattle.} Give your cattle (said Joseph to the people of Egypt in the famine), and I will... | |
 | 1832 - 508 pages
...Fellow of 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
...greedily all the 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." " I went... | |
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