 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 364 pages
...sumptuously every day." Not that these words, simply considered, imply any imputation of guilt; for a man may be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, and yet be both a good man and a good Christian. But since we do not find this rich man described as... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...most flowery and enchanting of all). * If you would enjoy life, come along with me: here you shall be " clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day :" here you may walk after the ways of your own heart, and the sight of your own eyes, and have nothing... | |
 | James Sherman - 1826 - 188 pages
...possessions. It is not necessary to constitute our bliss, that we revel in luxury, or that we should be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. Unsanctified wealth and poverty are both great curses; one can hardly tell which is the most productive... | |
 | 1836 - 344 pages
...soul, while luxury in palaces lay straining her low thoughts to form unreal wants ;" why a Dives should be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, and a Lazarus lie at his gate full of sores, begging the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table,... | |
 | Joel Hawes - 1829 - 190 pages
...shame and remorse ; without, neglect and reproach. He is of necessity a miserable and useless man ; and he is so, even though he be clothed in purple and...the evils of a conscious worthlessness of character. 3. Consider, next, the importance of a good character to your success in the world. If a young man... | |
 | Joel Hawes - 1831 - 186 pages
...shame and remorse ; without, neglect and reproach. He is of necessity a miserable and useless man ; and he is so, even though he be clothed in purple and...the evils of a conscious worthlessness of character, 3. Consider, next, the importance of a good character to your success in the world. If a young man... | |
 | John Bowden - 1831 - 472 pages
...happen to be at a distance from his Cathedral? Or that he cannot be a Bishop of that kind, if he should be " clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day 1 " You really, Sir, must be in great want of evidence, or you would not detain your readers with sucli... | |
 | James Slade - 1832 - 564 pages
...and dishonourable to God. The wicked may have an air of gaiety, may boast of their pleasures, may " be clothed in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day." Luke xvi. 19. But it is only an image of happiness, only a dream ; from which they will soon be terribly... | |
 | Joseph Ritson, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1833 - 340 pages
...do and will ever possess), shall afford you a much greater and more heartfelt satisfaction than to be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. I have told your mother, my young Sir, that I design to bring you up to town with me next vacation,... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pages
...dictate slavish submission to the working many, and priestcraft joins in the delusion, that it may be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. In the wordschurch and state, we have a lively idea presented to us of these two crafts, of their union... | |
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He is of necessity a miserable and useless man ; and he is so, even though he be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. 
