...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...

...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, having no guide, overseer^ or ' ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her 'food in the harvest' (Prov. vi. 6-8 ; see also...

...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 no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep,...

.... 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, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her focd in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep,...

...wise : 7 Which having no guide to direct if, overseer to enact law, or 8 ruler to punish idleness, Providcth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest, and lays it up secure against winter. Thou hast nobler capacities, and much -greater business 9 ta...

...Which having no guide to direct it, overseer to enact law, or tf ruler to ftunish idleness, Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest, and lays it u/i secure against winter. Thou liast nobler capacities, and much greater business 9 to...

...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...

...sluggard, consider her ways and be wise. Ver 7. Which having no guide, overseer or ruler, Ver. 8. Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. x. 26. As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him. xv....

...sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise : 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard ? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ? 10 Yet a little sleep,...

...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, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." And chap. x. 5. &c. " He...