| Henry Clay Fish - 1871 - 926 páginas
...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 Dur daily food, like the manna of old, from heaven, or caused nature to yield... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 434 páginas
...now consigned, like many a cherished illusion,' to the shadowy regions of fable. Like the growth of the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin, is the steady uprearing of those stupendous structures, which shame the proudest efforts of labor and... | |
| Maria A. West - 1875 - 734 páginas
...door-ways where women were busily spinning, they sought to interest them in the Savior's words about the " Lilies of the field which toil not, neither do they spin," and of the glorious raiment of Christ's Righteousness. And again a company of passers-by would collect... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 590 páginas
...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...toil not, neither do they spin. He should have thrown hirnHelf upon the admiring sympathies of the world as the most dazzling of rhetorical artists, rather... | |
| Maria Abigail West - 1876 - 754 páginas
...door-ways where women were busily spinning, they sought to interest them in the Savior's words about the " Lilies of the field which toil not, neither do they spin," and of the glorious raiment of Christ's Righteousness. And again a company of passers-by would collect... | |
| 1879 - 760 páginas
...useful is to be expected of them so long as they are tolerably ornamental, that they are to be like the lilies of the field ' which toil not, neither do they spin.' There can be no question that the great majority of the very girls whose gifts of means, leisure and... | |
| Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1880 - 504 páginas
...from the fowls of the air, which in perfect resignation labour not for their livelihood, — and from the lilies of the field, which " toil not, neither do they spin ; " the warning not to walk in the ways of the faithless heathen ; the use of the neutral word proven... | |
| Richard Heber Newton - 1880 - 334 páginas
...into grace, of knowledge into power; and that this beautiful flower of civilization should be like the lilies of the field, which toil not neither do they spin, idle, purposeless, its task pleasure, its duty enjoyment, its business recreation, its work play. There... | |
| 1881 - 616 páginas
...doorways where women were busily spinning, they .sought to interest them in the Saviour's words about the "Lilies of the field which toil not, neither do they spin," and of the glorious raiment of Christ's Righteousness. And again a company of passers-by would collect... | |
| Eau Claire Manor - 1884 - 492 páginas
...descendants with more than the glory of Solomon, and with scarely more labor than that put forth by the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin. The steamship, it may be, will yet rot at the dock, set aside by airships, those "argosies with magic... | |
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