 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pàgines
...they wrong or injure in their projected removal of ancient landmarks. " Si-est thou u man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings: he shall not stand before mean men." Would we then stand in n favourable light before the King of kings ? Let us endeavour to be " not slothful... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1842 - 190 pàgines
...better than riches." He has told us that diligence leads to eminence. " Seest thou a man diligent in business, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men." And all this we see verified in actual life. When the youth grows up to manhood, all these consequences... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1843 - 348 pàgines
...plentcousness ; but of every one that is hasty, only to want. xxii. 29. Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men. xx xi. 27. A good wife eatcth not the bread of idleness. Eccl. v. 12. The sleep of a labouring mait... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - 314 pàgines
...slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? He shall stand before kings ; He shall not stand before mean men. I went by the field of the slothful, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, And, lo.... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1844 - 552 pàgines
...hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Pr. 22. 29. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. Ec. 5. 12. The sleep of the laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much. Ep. 4. 28. Let him... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1844 - 608 pàgines
...honour, and life '." And hereby he is established, and the saying is true, " Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men 2." But haply it may be said, their's is a debased and lowly condition, who go forth " to their work... | |
 | Samuel Kennedy Talmage - 1844 - 28 pàgines
...vincit" — or by the higher authority of Heaven's inspired record: " Seest thou a man diligent in business ? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." In Poetry — to pass by HOMER and HESIOD — where else can you find the deep breathing pathos of... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1845 - 204 pàgines
...while I was restored to my forfeited honours and possessions. INDUSTRY. SEEST thou a man diligent in his business ? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for... | |
 | 1845 - 702 pàgines
...thee ? 28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. 29 Seest thou a man diligent in CHAPTER XXIII. \S/"HEN thou sittest to eat with a ruler, con" sidei diligently what is before thee... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1845 - 276 pàgines
...that passage from Proverbs, which his father had taught him, when a boy; "Seest thou a man diligent in his business'! He shall stand before kings, — he shall not stand before mean men." When disagreement commenced between Great Britain and her colonies, he, being in the mothercountry,... | |
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