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" 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 291
1859
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The Proper Names of the Bible, New Testament, and Apocrypha ... to which is ...

John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - 1804 - 190 pages
...sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician. 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...
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Sacred hours; or, Extracts for private devotion & meditation, Volume 1

Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...the sea, and her counsels profoundei than the great deep. From the same. 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...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 2

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 pages
...least, a schoolmaster. " The wisdom of a learned man," says an authority not lightly to be despised, " 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...
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Democracy Unveiled: Or, Tyranny Stripped of the Garb of Patriotism

Thomas Green Fessenden - 1805 - 244 pages
...from Ecclesiasticus, Chap. XXXVIII. v. 24, to the end of the chapter : " 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 k...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...dulnes , as to require, • Ecclesiasticus, chap- xtxviii. verse 24, 25. " 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...
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Moral Maxims: From the Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach, Or, Ecclesiasticus

1807 - 152 pages
...profitable for all men, neither hath every soul pleasure in every thing. 450. The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure ; and he that hath little business shall become wise. 451. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen,...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...opposite extreme, cou* Ecclesiasticas, chap, xxxriii. verses 24, 25. " The wisdom of a learned man Cometh by opportunity of leisure : and he that hath little business shall become wise."—." How can be get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad ; that drirethoxen; and is...
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Essays Moral and Entertaining: On the Various Faculties and ..., Volumes 1-2

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1815 - 550 pages
...man of business by the testimony of the son of Sirach, " The wisdom of a learned man cometh by the opportunity of leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise;" and yet it seems he would have him have some; he doth not say, he that hath none: and no doubt by a...
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The Visitor, or, Literary miscellany

1818 - 354 pages
...just remark. If a remark or observation be once just, it never dies — " 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 oxenj and is...
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A Dissertation Shewing that the House of Lords, in Cases of Judicature, are ...

Edward Christian - 1820 - 148 pages
...more" just and satisfactory than the following extract:— ' * * The wisdom of a learned mancometh 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...
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