 | 1611 - 358 pages
...I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and,lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had...instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth ; and thy want... | |
 | Richard Lucas - Happiness - 1735 - 484 pages
...went by the jield of the Jlothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of underftanding ; and /<?, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the ftone wall thereof was broken down: This is one plain caufe,and commonly the firft, of our halthalting... | |
 | George Berkeley - Church and state - 1752 - 282 pages
...tbejlothful, and by the Vineyard of the Man void ef Under/landing, and lol it was all grown over with ttorns, and Nettles had covered the Face thereof \ and the Stone Wall thereof was broken down *. ,In every Road the ragged Enfigns of Poverty are difplayed ; you often meet Caravans of Poor, whole... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - Christian life - 1760 - 360 pages
...Abundance, fo he is left naked and defencelefs to every one that comes in his Way. Iwent, fays Solomon, by the Field of the Slothful, and by the Vineyard of the Man void of Under/landing ; afid lo ! it wtis all grown over with Thorns, and Nettles had covered the Face thereof:... | |
 | Thomas Harmer - Bible - 1787 - 566 pages
...: " I went by the field of the flothful, and by " the vineyard of the man void of under" ftanding; and lo, it was all grown over " with thorns, and nettles had covered the " face thereof, and the ftone-wall thereof " was broken down," Prov. xxiv. 30, 31. It mould feem it was anciently, as it is... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1790 - 458 pages
...SERM. / 'went by the jield of the jlothful^ and by the vineyard of the man void of 'under/landing : And lo ! it was all grown over with thorns ; and nettles had covered the face thereof; and the Jlone wall thereof was broken down. Then If aw and conjidered it well : I looked upon it, and received... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1790 - 446 pages
...TV Jwent by the field ofthejlothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of under/landing. And ID ! it was all grown over with thorns ; and nettles had covered the face thereof; and the Jlone watt thereof was broken down. THeri I faw and con/idered it well. I looked .* . \• upon it,... | |
 | 1797 - 550 pages
...went (fays Solomon) by the field of the flothful, and the vineyard of the man void of underftanding ; and lo ! it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the ftone wall thereof was broken down.' To raife the image of this perfon, the fame author adds, ' The... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - Presbyterian Church - 1798 - 422 pages
...: ' I went * by the field of the flothful, and by the vine' yard of the man void of underftanding ; and lo * it was all grown over with, thorns, and nettles * had covered the , face thereof, -and the ftone* wall thereof was broken down.' . f . . 3.; Are any of you poor and reduced in your circumcircumftances,... | |
 | William Enfield, John Aikin - Sermons, English - 1798 - 488 pages
...applied : " I went by the field of the flothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of underftanding, and lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof." The unqueftionable truth is, that man is made for action ; and his faculties, like metallic inftruments,... | |
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I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 
