 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...resolute application ; whereas the wisest of princes and of men has said, Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men*. And it is evident, that a diligent prosecution of business keeps one out of the way of a thousand temptations,... | |
 | John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 190
...shalt not.g'o : lest thou learn his mays, and get a snare to thy soul. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. Labour not to be rich : cease, from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 530
...knowledge, wealth, and respect. " The hand of the diligent shall bear rule."* " Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men."f How often have we seen an individual rise from obscurity to affluence and notoriety, merely... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...diligent in his business, a man that looks about him, is active and diligent in his oivnfiro/ier work, he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean [men ;] he it likely to rise and be advanced in life. If we desire to stand before the King of kings, and... | |
 | Richard Steele - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...that lovetn pleasure shall be a poor man- He that loveth wine and oil, shall not be rich, Prov. xxi. 17. " Seest thou a man diligent in his business ?...he shall not stand before mean men, Prov. xxii. 29. " I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding. Yet a... | |
 | 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...? 28 Remove not the ancient land-mark, which thy fathers huve set. 29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business ">. he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. CHAP. XXIII. TIT" HEN thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee : 2... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...but one at present that agrees with my present subject; Prov. xxii. 29. Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before Kings, he shall not stand before mean men: That is, " His good report and " his reputation shall grow and increase, that he shall " be brought... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...shall be diminished ; but he that gaihereth by labour shall increase. (Zi) Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? He shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men.. (c) The hand of the diligent maketh rich ; but the soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing.... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...the honor of knighthood at Carlton house, from His Majesty George IV. " Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men " (Prov. xxii. 29.) The day after, he resigned his professorship of the Royal Institution, and on the 1 1th of April, he... | |
 | 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...gathered from his status in society. He was governor of Ahab's house — " Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men" — literally, the "obscure" — persons of no note, of no standing, of no splendour or account in... | |
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