 | David Morrice - Moral education - 1801 - 328 pages
...the 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, or ruler, pro-videth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. I may also further observe to you, that if you lavish what you... | |
 | 1877 - 594 pages
...Palestine was one cannot definitely say ; the oft-quoted passage in the Bible, ' Go to the ant, thou sluggard : consider her ' ways and be wise ; which,...overseer^ or ' ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her 'food in the harvest' (Prov. vi. 6-8 ; see also xxx. 25), has been generally supposed... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1803 - 322 pages
...learrl wisdom, foresight, care, and diligence : "Go to the ant, than sluggard, consider her ways, and le wise ; which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in summer, and gatheretli her food in the harvest *." To view these busy animals (as an ingenious author... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. On Industry and Sloth. Proverbs. Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise: which having...overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard ? when wilt thou arise... | |
 | John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 190 pages
.... Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse /?/>.? put far from thee. Go to the «»/, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise : Which,...overseer, or ruler, 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 262 pages
...thee, like an ambushed foe." From this hubbub of words pass to the original. " Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, er ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 554 pages
...field, or to lay up for 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,...overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." And chap. x. 5. &c. " He that gaihereth in summer is a wise... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 540 pages
...field, or to lay up for 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,...overseer, or ruler, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 378 pages
...Ritson. s We 'II set thee to school to an ant, &c.] " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, (says Solomon) learn her ways, and be wise ; which having no guide, 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... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1811 - 258 pages
...the bread of idleness." Even the brute creatures condemn the idle. Prov. vi. G. " Go to the ant thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise," which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her moat in summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. Shall a poor ant exccll you in wisdom .' Shall... | |
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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. 
