| English literature - 1824 - 798 pages
...consumption of wealth is indispensable to existence ;" but the eternal law of Providence has decreed, that man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and that the hand of the diligent alone maketh rich. This twofold necessity, which renders the production... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1822 - 866 pages
...operate as a premium for poverty, indolence, licentiousness, • and immorality. By the doom of nature man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and nothing could be more injurious to a country than the adoption of a principle in legislation which... | |
| George Croly - Bible - 1834 - 666 pages
...national mind. The value of a sabbath is fully intelligible, as a day of relaxation, in a world where man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow ; and as a day on which, withdrawing from the anxieties and labours of that world, he may give his thoughts... | |
| 1836 - 784 pages
...enjoyments should spring from the exertion of his activity. We are told by the highest authority that man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and that the labourer is worthy of his hire ; but though these precepts are announced by Revelation, they... | |
| James Grant - Clergy - 1839 - 356 pages
...move on with his burden, ejaculated to himself, yet loud enough to be heard by the party to whom I am indebted for the anecdote. — " Oh, sin ! thou art...load, was dragged to within a few yards of St. Paul's Church-yard, which was the place of its destination. As a minister of the gospel, Mr. Howels equally... | |
| James Grant - 1839 - 746 pages
...himself, yet loud enough to be heard by the party to whom I am indebted for the anecdote. — " Oh, sin I thou art an evil and a bitter thing. Here is one of...load, was dragged to within a few yards of St. Paul's Church-yard, which was the place of its destination. As a minister of the gospel, Mr. Howels equally... | |
| Unitarianism - 1841 - 586 pages
...and comfort; but, for the wisest and most benevolent of purposes, God has arranged this differently. Man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow; and in many of the most interesting of his labours, those, for instance, of agriculture, the time of toil... | |
| John Hoskins Griscom - 1846 - 172 pages
...overflow, and it courses down the cheek, as the eloquent tear. THE EYEBROWS. 503. It has been decreed that man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and this part of his body perspires more copiously during labor and sultry weather than any other, and... | |
| Alexander Marjoribanks - America - 1853 - 504 pages
...independent of its absurdity, is also at direct variance with the divine command, which enjoins that man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow ; and that if we do not work, neither shall we eat. Industry, indeed, is everywhere strongly inculcated throughout... | |
| Prison Association of New York - Prisons - 1909 - 1214 pages
...have had little to influence them to lead decent or useful lives. The lessons they must learn are that "man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow" and that society has rights which the individual is bound to respect. It is a weak and sentimental attitude... | |
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