 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 pages
...nothings they have courted, and preferred before the apple tree, is the greatest and worst witch of all. " As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not ; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 pages
...saith the Wise Man, Prov. xxi. 7. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them : and, Jer. xvii. 1 1 . As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not ,- so he, that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 1 1 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1816 - 810 pages
...Mr. Badman's kindred. For they are a shame to religion; I say, these slighty, rob-shop, pick- pocket men, they are a shame to religion, and religious men...sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1823 - 504 pages
...86, 87.) whether they were reckoned among the clean kinds. In Jeremiah xvii. 11. the prophet says, "As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not ; so, he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days." Brown, speaking of the... | |
 | 1823 - 872 pages
...very large, being as big as capons. In Jfremiah xvii. n. we have the following curious passage : " As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not ; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 794 pages
...1 Cor. vi. 9. know ye not thai the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Jer. xvii. 11. as the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. JER. xvii. 11 : As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not ; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 668 pages
...hasteth to be rich, hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come on him ;' that ' as the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not ; so he that getteth riches and not by right, shall leave them in the mMst of his days, and at his end shall be... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 712 pages
...(thus) hasteth to be rich, hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him ; that as the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not ; so he that getteth riches and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be... | |
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As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. 
