 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 halaman
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 halaman
...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... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 halaman
...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...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."... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 halaman
...oil in the dwelling of the wise ; but a foolish man spendeth it up. 38 Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. 39 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him. 40 Wealth gotten by vanity... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - 1833 - 516 halaman
...inculcated the lesson of diligence, and often put him in mind of these words: "Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? He shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." * He entered College at the age of twelve years. When the year arrived, in which he was to take his... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 halaman
...arrived at that honour or dignity predicted by Solomon, when he said, " Seest thou a man diligent in business, he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." Yet I had, by that time, arrived at the honour of standing before, and intimately conversing and corresponding... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - 428 halaman
...arrived at that honour or dignity predicted by Solomon, when he said, " Seest thou a man diligent in business, he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." Yet I had, by that time, arrived at the honour of standing before, and intimately conversing and corresponding... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - 1833 - 518 halaman
...of diligence, and often put hjm in mind of these words: "Seest thou a man diligent in his business 1 He shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." 1 1 Cotton Mather's Remnrkableg of Dr. I. Mather, p. 1 -5. He entered College at the age of twelve... | |
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