...combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature.i i Ecclesiasticus, chap, xxxviii. verse 24, 25. " The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure : and he that hath little business I do not, my dear Sir, conceive you to be of that sophistical, captious spirit, or of that uncandid...

...Paulet, in France. In short, he had but one course to pursue. No rustic who holdeth the plough, and glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, whose talk is of bullocks, is more fatally destined, as the Son of Sirach thought, to obscurity, than...

...own well-doing. " The wisdom of a learned man," says the son of Sirach, [see Ecclesiasticus xxxviii,] "cometh by opportunity of leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise." And it may well become every one of us to encourage each other to discharge with zeal and efficiency...

...own well-doing. " The wisdom of a learned man," says the son of Sirach, [see Ecclesiasticus xxxviii,] "cometh by opportunity of leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise." And it may well become every one of us to encourage each other to discharge with zeal and efficiency...

...parish steeple, or farther than the bounds of that humble district. But how, saith the wise man, <; how can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and...in their labours ; and whose talk is of bullocks!" — Yet to such men so appointed is committed the greatest of tasks on which mortal man can be employed,...

...parish steeple, or farther than the bounds of that humble district. But how, saith the wise man, " how can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and...is occupied in their labours; and whose talk is of bullocks!"—Yet to such men so appointed is committed the greatest of tasks on which mortal man can...

...circumstances. " His fault ! " says the farmer, and say many men of whom better things might be expected. " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and...goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks ? " How ? By " seeking her as silver, and searching for her as...

...permits me to do. His ideas about leisure are summed up, however, in one classically phrased sentence : " The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity...that hath little business shall become wise." How much truth is contained in these lines those know best who wish for wider leisure for pursuits which...

...responsibilities of the profession of medicine; forjwe read in the Bible in the chapter we first quoted : " The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity...become wise." How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plow and that glorieth in the goad that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk...

...to be a great deal of truth in the following : We have hieh authority for saying that " Wisdom * * cometh by opportunity of leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise." How many do we know — any of us — who, in the maturity of their faculties, are willing — we will...