 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...  The English in America - Page 233de Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1851Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alexander Roberts - 1883 - 296 pages
...will be recognised as very familiar, and is quoted by many who have no idea whence it is derived : " 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 talk is of bullocks ? " The following... | |
 | John Crosthwaite Bellett - 1884 - 384 pages
...might well apply, words which will account for Reuben's low position in the world or the Church, " 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 talk is of bullocks ? He giveth... | |
 | 1888 - 588 pages
...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 talk is of bullocks ? " 72. The... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - 538 pages
...deep — sunk in poverty, and forced to toil from sunrise to sunset, mainly to pay their taxes : " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks ; he giveth... | |
 | Isaac S. Moses, Adolph Moses - 1889 - 286 pages
...learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. 39. 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 talk is of bullocks ? 40. Any... | |
 | 1890 - 146 pages
...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 labors and whose talk is of bullocks ? " He giveth... | |
 | 1890 - 956 pages
...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 talk is of bullocks ? He giveth... | |
 | William Douglas Morrison - 1890 - 480 pages
...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 talk is of bullocks. . . . But... | |
 | Herbert Metford Thompson - 1892 - 176 pages
...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 talk is of bullocks ? " " They... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...xxxviii. 25 ? Few passages in the Apocrypha are more familiar than that in which the Son of Sirach asks, " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks ?" Ever since... | |
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