To tell the truth, I saw an advertisement for able-bodied seamen, when I was a boy, sauntering in my native port, and as soon as I... came of age I embarked.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here in the country it is only a few idle boys or loafers that go a-fishing on a rainy day; but there it appeared as if every able...-bodied man and helpful boy in the Bay had gone out on a pleasure excursion in their yachts, and all would at last land and have a chowder on the Cape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A village seems thus, where its able-bodied men are all plowing the ocean together, as a common field. In North Truro the women an...d girls may sit at their doors, and see where their husbands and brothers are harvesting their mackerel fifteen or twenty miles off, on the sea, with hundreds of white harvest wagons, just as in the country the farmers' wives sometimes see their husbands working in a distant hillside field. But the sound of no dinner-horn can reach the fisher's ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern... this your great people?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You should also look for able men among all the people, men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain; set such men o...ver them as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you, but decide every minor case themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.... .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the festival of unlea...vened bread, at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed; all shall give as they are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not b...e able to stand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »