| 1856 - Počet stránok 766
...might have made us independent of work. He might have nourished us like " the fowls of the air and the lilies of the field," which " toil not, neither do they spin." He might have rained down our daily food, like the manna of old, from heaven, or caused nature to yield... | |
| Edward Allen Talbot - 1824 - Počet stránok 848
...are conceded, as will enable us in a great measure to cast off all care about temporal futurity, like the lilies of the field which "toil not, neither do they spin/' and to employ our time in the instruction of ourselves and families, in making suitable provision for... | |
| 1833 - Počet stránok 896
...invites such men to put their whole confidence in the providential supplies of GOD. He points them to the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin, and yet he assures them that the king of Jerusalem in all his glory, even Solomon, was not arrayed... | |
| David Hoffman - 1841 - Počet stránok 400
...its desuetude, as an effect, and in some slight degree a cause too, the women of our day have become the 'lilies of the field,' which 'toil not, neither do they spin, and yet even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these !' We complain not that the... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - Počet stránok 618
...an impre*sionof honour, generosity, and candour, stamp ed upon his manner, agreeable rather to hi* original character, than to the wrench which it had...merits. What a pity that this " gay creature of the element*" had 263 269 not laben bis place contentedly, where nature hid inigned it, u one of the ornamental... | |
| New York State Agricultural Society - 1844 - Počet stránok 712
...sought for the more favored situations of clerks or students, and our wives and daughters too often vied with the " lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin " — much to the profit of the shopkeeper and poverty of the farmer. I rejoice, however, to behold... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - Počet stránok 372
...was an impression of honor, generosity, and candor, stamped upon his manner, agreeable rather to his original character, than to the wrench which it had...station was with the lilies of the field, which toil v not, neither do they spin. He should have thrown himself upon the admiring sympathies of the world... | |
| 1856 - Počet stránok 352
...was to find entrance — where all things were to be enjoyed in common, and mankind were to become as the lilies of the field, " which toil not, neither do they spin." To accomplish this, a colonial exchequer was the one thing needful above all others, and many means... | |
| Amelia Gillespie Smyth - 1861 - Počet stránok 574
...among the besetting sins of the female character, it perhaps concerns us specially to beware. MAHY. By the " lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin, and yet not Solomon, in all his glory, was arrayed like one of these." MAMA. You would better appreciate... | |
| John Caird - 1866 - Počet stránok 324
...might have made us independent of work. He might have nourished us like " the fowls of the air and the lilies of the field," which " toil not, neither do they spin." He might have rained down our daily food, like the manna of old, from heaven, or caused nature to yield... | |
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