 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 536 pages
...diligent in his business ?" said the most exact observer of human life, whom the world has ever seen, " he shall stand before kings : he shall not stand before mean men." To your immortal concerns these observations are applicable with equal force. To the very nature of... | |
 | Charles Brooks - Christian life - 1828 - 424 pages
...thine. ' FEBRUARY 19. In all labour there is prefit. — Sees* thou a .man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men. I SPEAK only of bodily labour. It is conducive to health. Indolence is the exuberant source of many... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1828 - 336 pages
...and in order." " The hand of the diligent maketh rich." " Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? He shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." " To these might be added innumerable admonitions and arguments, drawn from scripture, from reason,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets, &c. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. — Prov. xxii. 13.29. xxvi. 13. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. — Prov. xxiii. 21. I went... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1829 - 340 pages
...If any man will not work, " neither should he eat.'' " Seest thou a man diligent " in his business ? He shall stand before kings, he " shall not stand before mean men." " Not slothful " in business ; fervent in spirit ; serving the Lord." (6) Contentment. " Give me neither... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1829 - 342 pages
...If any man will not work, " neither should he eat." " Seest thou a man diligent " in his business ? He shall stand before kings, he " shall not stand before mean men." 'f Not slothful " in business ; fervent in spirit ; serving the Lord." (6) Contentment. " Give me neither... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 722 pages
...which the Prov. xxii. wise prince doth prompt us to mark ; Seest thou a man diligent in his business1? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men : that is, diligence, as it is the fairest, so it is the surest way to the best preferment : as it... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...in his work is brother to him that is a great waster." " Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? He shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." Christ condemns sloth in his own service, as in the sentence of the wicked and slothful servant in... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1831 - 538 pages
...observation, which the wise prince doth prompt us to mark ; ' Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men :' that is, diligence, as it is the fairest, so it is the surest way to the best preferment : as it... | |
 | 1832 - 508 pages
...Trinity College, Cambridge, and Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester. " Seest thou a man diligent in business, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men." Mr. Robinson commenced his residence at Cambridge in Oct. 1768, and was soon regarded as a student... | |
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