| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...itself aright : at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. On Industry and Sloth. Proverbs. Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.... | |
| John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 190 pages
...from thee. Go to the «»/, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise : Which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her focd in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 540 pages
...Prov. vi. 6. " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : Which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her in the harvest." And chap. x. 5. &c. " He that gathereth in summer is a wise son ; but he that sleepeth... | |
| Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...Sfoses Browne. Go to the Ant, thou sluggard : consider her ways, and be wise; "Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, — Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food m the harvest. Proverbs, chap. vi. ver. 6, 7, 8. lonaon: PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, . ;... | |
| Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wisek. The ants are a people not strong ; which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest1. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard ? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
...meet with in the writings of the Old Testament. Every one knows that beautiful passage in the book of Proverbs : — Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise, which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest,... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...and activity : " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest."0 Their uniform care and promptitude in improving every moment as it passes ; the admirable... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 572 pages
...' Go to the ant, thou sluggard (says Solomon), learn her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in harvest.' If, says the fool, you had been schooled by the ant, you would have known that the king's... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1828 - 304 pages
...SLUGGARD. '\ " Go to the Ant, them sluggard ; consider her ways, and b* ** wise ; which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth " Her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the bar* " Test. How long wilt thou sleep, O, sluggard ? When wilt " thpu arise out of thy sleep ? Yet... | |
| Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1828 - 464 pages
...to the ant," said Solomon, " thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise ; which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the barrest," Prov. vi. 6, 7, 8. Ah ! how strikingly do these little, industrious, and frugal insects reprove... | |
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