| 1611 - 360 pages
...I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and,lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had...well : I looked upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty... | |
| Richard Lucas - 1735 - 486 pages
...went by the jield of the Jlothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of underftanding ; and /<?, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the ftone wall thereof was broken down: This is one plain caufe,and commonly the firft, of our halthalting... | |
| Thomas Harmer - 1787 - 568 pages
...: " I went by the field of the flothful, and by " the vineyard of the man void of under" ftanding; and lo, it was all grown over " with thorns, and nettles had covered the " face thereof, and the ftone-wall thereof " was broken down," Prov. xxiv. 30, 31. It mould feem it was anciently, as it is... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1790 - 458 pages
...SERM. / 'went by the jield of the jlothful^ and by the vineyard of the man void of 'under/landing : And lo ! it was all grown over with thorns ; and nettles had covered the face thereof; and the Jlone wall thereof was broken down. Then If aw and conjidered it well : I looked upon it, and received... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1790 - 446 pages
...TV Jwent by the field ofthejlothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of under/landing. And ID ! it was all grown over with thorns ; and nettles had covered the face thereof; and the Jlone watt thereof was broken down. THeri I faw and con/idered it well. I looked .* . \• upon it,... | |
| 1797 - 550 pages
...went (fays Solomon) by the field of the flothful, and the vineyard of the man void of underftanding ; and lo ! it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the ftone wall thereof was broken down.' To raife the image of this perfon, the fame author adds, ' The... | |
| John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1798 - 420 pages
...: ' I went * by the field of the flothful, and by the vine' yard of the man void of underftanding ; and lo * it was all grown over with, thorns, and nettles * had covered the , face thereof, -and the ftone* wall thereof was broken down.' . f . . 3.; Are any of you poor and reduced in your circumcircumftances,... | |
| William Enfield, John Aikin - 1798 - 488 pages
...applied : " I went by the field of the flothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of underftanding, and lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof." The unqueftionable truth is, that man is made for action ; and his faculties, like metallic inftruments,... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1798 - 492 pages
...the field ofpmv. «iv. thejlothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of un- 3°t 3'derftetftding ; and lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof. 4. By our tranfgreffion and fall the necemty of induftry (together with a difficulty of obtaining good,... | |
| John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 606 pages
...went by the field of the flothful, " and by the vineyard of the man void of underftanding ; " and Id, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles " had covered the face thereof, and the ftone-wall thereof " was broken down.M 3. Are any of you poor and reduced in your circumflances, fet... | |
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