 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...are a lively counterpart of Solomon's description in the Proverbs : " I went (saith that wise king) by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard...face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down."f In every road the ragged ensigns of poverty are displayed ; you often meet caravans of poor,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Sermons - 1820 - 370 pages
...whole situation. Observe in what lively colours the state of his affairs is described by Solomon. / went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard...nettles had covered the face thereof: and the stone watt thereof was broken down. Then I saw and considered it well : I looked upon it and receiv<<d instruction,... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1820 - 514 pages
...ground, (Gen. iii. 18.) and the keeping them under, a part of the labour imposed upon man. When Solomon " went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ;" — " lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone... | |
 | Art - 1820 - 158 pages
...gives us hJs own olwervation upon such a man, in. these words: / went by the field of the slothful— and lo it was all grown over with thorns,. and nettles had covered the face thereof: then I saw, and considered it well ; / looked upon it, and received instructions .'. y,et a little... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...are a lively counterpart of Solomon's description in the Proverbs : " I went (saith that wise king) by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, andlo! it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles .had covered the face thereof, and the stone... | |
 | Moral essays - 1821 - 188 pages
...lo ! it was all grown Over with thorns ! nettles had covered the face , thereof; and the stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it well. I looked upon it, and received instruction." Is it in this manner, that a man lives to himself ? Are these the advantages which were expected to... | |
 | George Lawson - 1821 - 452 pages
...convince any man, of the folly .of such hopes. Ver. 31. And lo it was all grown over with thorn t, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. How could it be otherwise ? Thorns and thistle*, since the fall of man, spring up every where, to remind... | |
 | William Cobbett - Fruit-culture - 1821 - 292 pages
...and Flowers. BY WILLIAM COBBETT. " 1 went by the Held of the Slothful and by the vineyard of tho " man void of understanding : and, lo ! it was all grown over with " thorns, and nettles covered the face thereof, and the stone-wall " thereof was broken down. Then I saw and considered it... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 412 pages
...his whole situation. Observe in what lively colours the state of his affairs is described by Solomon. I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard...well : I looked upon it, and received instruction *. In the midst, too, * Prov. xxiv. 30, 31, 3-2. of those distresses which idleness brings on its votaries,... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 498 pages
...Observe in what lively colours the state of his affairs is described by Solomon. I went by the Jield of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void...well : I looked upon it, and received instruction.* In the midst, too, of those distresses which idleness brings on its votaries, they must submit to innumerable... | |
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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. 
