 | David Morrice - 1801 - 328 pages
...instance of the ant : Go to the ant, thou sluggard (says that wisest of kings and moral writers), consider her ways, and be wise, which having no guide, overseer,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. I may also further observe to you, that if you lavish what you have to spare, you rob the poor, and... | |
 | 1877 - 594 pages
...cannot definitely say ; the oft-quoted passage in the Bible, ' Go to the ant, thou sluggard : consider her ' ways and be wise ; which, having no guide, overseer^...the summer, and gathereth her 'food in the harvest' (Prov. vi. 6-8 ; see also xxx. 25), has been generally supposed to imply that the Jews held that the... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...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,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard ? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ? Yet a little sleep,... | |
 | John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - 1804 - 190 pages
...thee a froward mouth, and perverse /?/>.? put far from thee. Go to the «»/, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise : Which, having no guide, overseer,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 378 pages
...the Hysterica passio, as seems, from his youth, he hitnselfe termes it the Moother." Ritson. s We 'II set thee to school to an ant, &c.] " Go to the ant,...over-seer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and £", tnereth her food in the Vutrve^t." By this allusion more is meant than is expressed. If,saysthe... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 554 pages
...winter ; but these things are man's duty ; as Prov. vi. 6. " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : Which, having no guide, overseer,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." And chap. x. 5. &c. " He that gaihereth in summer is a wise son ; but he that sleepeth in harvest,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 540 pages
...winter ; but these things are man's duty ; as Prov. vi. 6. " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : Which, having no guide, overseer,...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... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pages
...of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. (t] Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise; which having no guide, overseer,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. (») Eph. 4. »8. ((.) E»od. 10 9. (p) Rom. n. 10, i*. (5) \ Eccles. n. 6. (»•) i Thess. 3. n,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 288 pages
...lahouring in t/te winter.] "Go to the ant, thou sluggard, (s;";Solomou,) learn her ways, and he wise^which having no guide, over-seer, or ruler, provideth her...summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." By this allnsiou more is meant than is expressed. If, says the Fool, you had heeu school'd hy tin ant, you... | |
 | 1821 - 632 pages
...to-day, should not be put off till to-morrow." — Anonymous. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise ; which, having no guide, overseer,...the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. — Prav. vi. 6, 7,8. Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.... | |
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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. 
