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... Library of Southern Literature: Biography - Page 5597edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...the sea, and her counsels profoundei than the great deep. From the same. 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... | |
| John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 190 pages
...sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician. 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... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 pages
...least, a schoolmaster. " The wisdom of a learned man," says an authority not lightly to be despised, " 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... | |
| Thomas Green Fessenden - United States - 1805 - 244 pages
...from Ecclesiasticus, Chap. XXXVIII. v. 24, to the end of the chapter : " 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 k... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...dulnes , as to require, • Ecclesiasticus, chap- xtxviii. verse 24, 25. " 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... | |
| Maxims - 1807 - 152 pages
...profitable for all men, neither hath every soul pleasure in every thing. 450. The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure ; and he that hath little business shall become wise. 451. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen,... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...opposite extreme, cou* Ecclesiasticas, chap, xxxriii. verses 24, 25. " The wisdom of a learned man Cometh by opportunity of leisure : and he that hath little business shall become wise."—." How can be get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad ; that drirethoxen; and is... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Christian ethics - 1815 - 550 pages
...man of business by the testimony of the son of Sirach, " The wisdom of a learned man cometh by the opportunity of leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise;" and yet it seems he would have him have some; he doth not say, he that hath none: and no doubt by a... | |
| 1818 - 354 pages
...just remark. If a remark or observation be once just, it never dies — " 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 oxenj and is... | |
| Edward Christian - Criminal law - 1820 - 148 pages
...more" just and satisfactory than the following extract:— ' * * The wisdom of a learned mancometh 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... | |
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