| Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...keep thee ;' and again, ' If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send ;' and again, "' He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.' • And again, ' The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands ;' and again, ' Want of... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 pages
...will keep thee ;' and again, ' If you would have your business done, go if not, send.' And again — ' He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.' And again, ' The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands ;' and again, ' Want of care... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1867 - 290 pages
...quotation, by the by, that the old gentleman ever makes — that couplet of " Poor Richard," — " He, that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive." The Squire has been in his day connected more or less intimately with turnpike enterprise, which the... | |
| Massachusetts - 1868 - 1260 pages
...sons were ho'ding the plough instead of a foreign laborer, not forgetting Franklin's adage, that " He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold, or drive." The skilful guiding of the plough should be considered as valuable an accomplishment to the practical... | |
| Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 pages
...will keep thee ;" and again, "If you 'would have your business done, go; if not, send." And again, " He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive." Once more, " The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands!" and again, "Want of care... | |
| Thomas Walker (poet.) - 1870 - 270 pages
...you well have your business done you must go, If not you can send, then in time you will know ; And he that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive, For the eye of the master does much more work Than both his hands would if he worked like a Turk ;... | |
| Benjamin Gregory - Australia - 1871 - 436 pages
...laboriousness which he had learnt in the forest clearings, where, if anywhere, the proverb holds good, — " He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive." He kept steadily in view the object of his ambition r to rise in the world, and to raise his parents... | |
| Linus Pierpont Brockett - Businessmen - 1872 - 380 pages
...laboriousness which he had learnt in the forest clearings, where, if anywhere, the proverb holds good — " He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive." He kept steadily in view the object of his ambition : to rise in the world, and to raise his parents... | |
| Benjamin Gregory - Businessmen - 1872 - 422 pages
...laboriousness which he had learnt in the forest clearings, where, if anywhere, the proverb holds good,— " He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive." He kept steadily in view the object of his ambition: to rise in the world, and to raise his parents... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...thee ; ' and again, ' If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send ; ' and again, 1 lie that by the plough would thrive. Himself must either hold or drive.' And again, ' The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands ; ' and again, ' Want of care... | |
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