 | Isaac Taylor - 1811 - 258 sidor
...for it} no one ever got it by idleness. What destruction does it make of our estates. Pro-o. xx. 4. "The sluggard will not plough by reason of cold, therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing." How can a man get money it' he will not work for it. Laziness will c Loath a man with rags. The busy... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 sidor
...are summoned to the grave, where " there is no more work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom." " The sluggard will not plough, by reason of cold :...beg in harvest, and have nothing." (Prov. xx. 4.) And so it will fare with all those who let the many years of plenty pass, without making provision... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 sidor
...and thy want as an armed man. [Prov. xxiv. s0-s4. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold 1 therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. [Prov. xx. 4. Go to the ant, thou sluggard 1 consider her ways, and be wise: whichhavingno guide, overseer, or ruler,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1835 - 380 sidor
...and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes, and caused it to be proclaimed and publisheil throughout the city, that man and beast should be...himself by saying that this field cannot yield a crop? How 'does he know rt cannot, till he makes a proper trial ? It certainly will not, if he neglect the... | |
 | 1863 - 1154 sidor
...read this, we think directly of the verse in Proverbs, " The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing." (Prov. xx. 4.) Also of Eccles. xi. 4, to which this information gives a new meaning, "He that observeth the wind shall... | |
 | Abner Chase - 1846 - 160 sidor
...text was with peculiar force impressed upon my mind : " The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold, therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing." Prov. xx, 4> This I took as a reproof to myself, and I thought it would answer well for the people present. I therefore... | |
 | Sketches - 1848 - 422 sidor
...all times and seasons is necessary to a man's success. "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold ; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing." (Prov. xx. 4.) The ploughman's task is an honourable one. When the importance of a ploughman's duties are well considered,... | |
 | Athanase Coquerel - 1851 - 172 sidor
...which always meets its first punishment in this world. " The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold ; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing." (Prov. xx. 4.) 177. This duty of labor comprehends the cultivation of reason and the development of the faculties... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1851 - 638 sidor
...The sluggard is lost by his own sloth ; he " will not plow by reason of the cold," says Solomon; " therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing," Prov. xx. 4. He is the uuprofitable servant ; see bis doom, Matth. xxv. 26 — 30, " Cast ye the uuprofitable servant... | |
 | 1876 - 832 sidor
...sluggard to them that send him " (Prov. x. 26). Again : " The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold, therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing " (Prov. xx. 4). So again : " The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason " (Prov.... | |
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. 
