...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...Then I saw and Considered it well : I looked upon it and received instruction. * In the midst, too, of those * Prov. xxiv. 30, 31, 32. distresses that...

...Observe in what lively colours the state of his affairs is described by Solomon. / went by the jield of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void...down. Then I saw and considered it well: I looked upon it, and re* Pror. xir. 23. — xiii. 4. VOL. II. ft ceived instruction. * In the midst, too, of those...

...sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold- — therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing." " I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard...thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down." Did any of you ever behold such a farm? Never, in the hand of the diligent man; and never otherwise,...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...following an opposite course, we heap them on our own, to our destruction. Ver. 30. / went by the jfield of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding. The sluggard is wise in his own conceit ; but in Solomon's judgment, sluggard is another name for a...