 The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 2781851Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 926 pages
...were no easy reading even for the best eyes. " The wisdom of a learned man," says the son of Sirach, " cometh by opportunity of leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise." But, alas ! it is not always so ; it is oftenest those who have the most business that are most learned.... | |
 | Charles Bowyer Adderley (1st baron Norton.) - 1860 - 130 pages
...the principles of action which properly qualify men for the guidance and overseership of others. " The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity...wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough ? he giveth his mind to make furrows ; .... all these trust to their hands, and every one is wise in... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1860 - 430 pages
...Presbytery. Perpend the following remarkable passage of the Apocrypha, viz., Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 25 : " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and...goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is. of bullocks ? " Eead the whole. By-the-bye, the said Ecclesiasticus might... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1860 - 436 pages
...Perpend the following remarkable passage of the Apocrypha, viz., Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 25 : " IIow can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that...goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?" Head the whole. By-the-bye, the said EccJesiasticns might... | |
 | College of California - 1864 - 102 pages
...California author instructs or amuses the world. " The wisdom of a learned man," says the Bible, " cometh by opportunity of leisure, and he that hath...become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plow and that glorieth in the goad ; that driveth oxen and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1864 - 510 pages
...the Scribe was therefore absolutely necessary for the instruction and edification of the people'. " The wisdom of a learned man cometh -by opportunity...and he that hath little business shall become wise. The husbandman, the carpenter, the smith, the potter, all these trust to their Jiands and every one... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 pages
...checks, and guarded round with many precautions. They still believed in the words of the sage, that " the wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure," and were not disposed to confide the conduct of the most important affairs to him " that driveth oxen,... | |
 | Frederick Ross - 1864 - 274 pages
...of Ecclesiastes than Sir Lytton Bulwer, where it asserts that " The wisdom of learned men cometh of opportunity of leisure, and he that hath little business, shall become wise." These principles were those of the Messrs. Turnbull; they looked upon their shopmen as a family committed... | |
 | Bergen Evans - 1968 - 2142 pages
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