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" ... cottage by the brookside," the "old oaken bucket," and a quiet sleep 'neath the "drooping willow," when life's fitful fever is o'er. There are but few, however, who realize these fancies, perfect happiness is not decreed to man, he is to "earn his... "
Scraps from the Prison Table: At Camp Chase and Johnson's Island - Page 122
by Joseph Barbière - 1868 - 397 pages
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Select Remains...with a Memoir

William Nevins - 1836 - 412 pages
...inspiration reclaim it. NOVEL READING AND THEATRES. I cannot conceive that man, whose twofold business it is to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and to work out his salvation with fear and trembling, ought to have much to do with those tales of chivalrous...
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Select Remains of the Rev. William Nevins: With a Memoir

William Nevins - Presbyterian Church - 1836 - 432 pages
...inspiration reclaim it. NOVEL READING AND THEATRES. I cannot conceive that man, whose twofold business it is to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and to work out his salvation with fear and trembling, ought to have much to do with those tales of chivalrous...
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The Literary aspirant magazine

1846 - 374 pages
...feg ; The last o't, the warst o't, Is only for to beg." Thus is he ever thankful that he has strength to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow ; and when that shall no longer be in his power, we find him looking to the last resource without any dread :...
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The Guardian, Volumes 32-33

Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...it a necessity after the fall, when he stood amid the wreck and ruin of sin. When he was sent forth to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow and when hia wilful disobedience had banished him from the immediate presence and communion of hia Maker, man...
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The Jew of Denmark: A Tale

Meïr Goldschmidt - 1852 - 264 pages
...swallowed up, and the dust is shaken from Psyche's wings. Or, the necessities of life drive him forth to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and when love has burdens to bear, he becomes weary and speedily droops ; awhile he flutters his downy pinions,...
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Scraps from the Prison Table: At Camp Chase and Johnson's Island

Joseph Barbière - Camp Chase (Ohio) - 1868 - 428 pages
...vanities. These slabs teach us that the man is dead. Philosophy, that he is not lost, but changed. How do we know but that in the transmogrification of particled...life, but that he was to suffer by family affliction. If a successful political gambler, he is apt to be poverty stricken. One is elected President, and...
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Scraps from the Prison Table: At Camp Chase and Johnson's Island

Joseph Barbière - Camp Chase (Ohio) - 1868 - 428 pages
...There are but few, however, who realize these fancies, perfect happiness is not decreed to man, lie is to "earn his bread by the sweat of his brow;" and...life, but that he was to suffer by family affliction. If a successful political gambler, he is apt to be poverty stricken. One is elected President, and...
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The Sabbath school magazine, ed. by W. Keddie, Volumes 25-26

Glasgow sabbath school union - 1873 - 598 pages
...the conversation at this inquiry meeting. Work is the condition of life, temporal and spiritual. Man is to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow; and he is to labour (not onM for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth, (v. 27.) Labour,...
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The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Literary criticisms

Orestes Augustus Brownson - Literature - 1885 - 620 pages
...sheer nonsense. The great relief from the ills of life is employment, in a word, work. Man was made to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and when he does not, he suffers. The changes which have been introduced into society, imposing less active duties than...
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Annual Report, Volume 3

Missouri Botanical Garden - Botany - 1892 - 302 pages
...heart. * * * Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labor until the evening." By the law of man's being he is " to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow," — and yet, with lavish hand has the Bountiful Provider scattered His gifts. This beautiful world is ours...
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