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" 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 as an armed man. "
The Natural History of the Bible: or, a description of all the quadrupeds ... - Page 110
by Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1824 - 430 pages
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Sermons, Chiefly Practical, Volume 1

Edward Bather - 1840 - 586 pages
...upon it, and received 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 as an armed man." Here was great disorder already come to pass, and inevitable ruin close at hand, and sloth the sole...
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A Sunday manual, used at the chapel in Beaumont square [by J.T.B. Beaumont].

Beaumont Square Chapel, Mile End (LONDON), John Thomas Barber Beaumont - 1840 - 204 pages
...thou arise out of thy sleep?— 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 as an armed man.—Chap. X., 1. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.—4....
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Quadrupeds; or, Outlines of a popular history of the class Mammalia

Natural history - 1840 - 180 pages
...rather to mean " riders on swift dromedaries." (See Engraving, No. 46.) And also in Prov. vi. 1 1 : "So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man." The term "armed man," is said to bear rendering, "a ash- are -rider," or "rider on the Maherry." The...
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Fifty-two Sketches of Sermons on Miscellaneous Subjects

Francis Close - 1842 - 254 pages
...upon it, and received 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 as an armed man, THERE are few subjects upon which more has been written and spoken in the present day than upon the...
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The Christian Investigator and Evangelical Reformer, Volume 2

1842 - 364 pages
...wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ? 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 as an armed man."* Ans. 1. It is sloth, idleness, that the wise man is rebuking ; not the conduct of those who labour...
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Lessons for young persons in humble life [by E. Frank].

Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...it, and received 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 as an armed man. SECTION 6. WHEN we are tempted to do a wrong action, we ought to think that, though men may be afar...
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A common-place-book to the holy Bible, reduced to heads by J. Locke, revised ...

William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 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 as an armed man. — Prov. vi. 6 — 11 ; xxiv. 33, 34. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand ; but the hand...
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The holy Bible, with a comm. arranged in lectures, by C. Girdlestone, Volume 3

Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...of thy sleep ? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a fro ward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eves, he speaketh...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 14

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 620 pages
...wise and good man consists in imitating the mechanical action of a door turning upon its hinges? ' So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.' Are poverty and want the chief elemente of happiness? Kveu the weaker sex are exhorted to be up betime«...
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Benham's Book of Quotations: Proverbs and Household Words

Sir William Gurney Benham - 1965 - 1398 pages
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