| John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 pages
...cry continually for food. It teaches them to imitate those saints on the pension list, that are like the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin, fr1 158 UNITED STATES SPEAKER. yet are arrayed like Solomon in his glory. In fine, it teaches a lesson,... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...authority of the Sacred "Writers upon its si<k and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight and tin solemnity of his example. " Behold the lilies of the...toil not, neither do they spin ; yet your heavenly Fatlin careth for them." He expatiates on the beauty of a sinjilt flower, and draws from it the delightful... | |
| 1838 - 894 pages
...still more inanimate than these transcend all that can be accomplished even by the wisest of men ? " Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet Solomon in all /it's glory was not arrayed like one of them." Perhaps you may say that these things... | |
| 1840 - 494 pages
...of those passages, in which the Divine Moralist and Legislator reproves the vanity of man: "Look at the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these !" St. Paul exhorts to pray without ceasing... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...he know what it is we are to do ? The highest Voice ever heard on this earth said withal, "Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin : yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." A glance, that, into the deepest deep... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...reflections on the bounties of that Providence, whose tender mercies are over all his works. "Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." But there... | |
| 1841 - 274 pages
...authority of the sacred wnters upon _ its side, and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight and the solemnity of his example. " Behold the lilies of the...heavenly Father careth for them." He expatiates on a single flower, and draws from it the delightful argument of confidence in God. He gives us to see... | |
| 1841 - 276 pages
...authority of the sacred writers upon its side, and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight and the solemnity of his example. " Behold the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do Uiey spin, yet- your heavenly Father careth for them." He expatiates on a single flower, and draws... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 pages
...he know what it is we are to do? The highest Voice ever heard on this Earth said withal, " Consider the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin : yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." A glance, that, into the deepest deep... | |
| 1841 - 888 pages
...manufactures, no mines, none of the customary English resources for competence. The women are like the lilies of the field — they toil not, neither do they spin ; and yet no one seems to want any thing. They dress well, often exquisitely ; they live in a round... | |
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