 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...aviary, that cry continually for food. It teaches them to imitate those saints on the pension list, who are like the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither...do they spin, and yet are arrayed like Solomon in all his glory. ' In fine.it teaches men a lesson which indeed they might have learned from Epictetus... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - Great Britain - 1826 - 494 pages
...admit a woman;* others excluded the fair sex on the strength of a passage in scripture : " Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; " thence it was concluded that females, who ought to spin, ought not to reign in the kingdom of the... | |
 | 1829 - 140 pages
...on its side, and even our Saviour Himself gives the weight and the solemnity of His example. 'Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenly Father careth for them.' He expatiates on the beauty of a single flower, and draws... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1829 - 424 pages
...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 they spin, yet your heavenly Father careth for them." He expatiates on the beauty of a single flower, and draws... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1829 - 420 pages
...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 they spin, yet your heavenly Father careth for them." He expatiates on the beauty of a single flower, and draws... | |
 | Henry Moore - 1830 - 468 pages
...care for this also. They hear his voice, saying to them, " Why take ye thought for raiment ? Behold the lilies of the field ! They toil not, neither do they spin ; yet, I say unto you, that Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these ! " " Ye received,"... | |
 | Ann Taylor - Children - 1830 - 196 pages
...things which the young, especially, are too apt to make the chief objects of their pursuit. ' Behold 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 !' We are told of the ivory steps... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1830 - 986 pages
...sparrows of the parable, We harvest not, and yet are fed. Third Voice. What said he more ? Second Voice. " The lilies of the field They toil not, neither do they spin, Yet all the robes that pomp and labour gild, And all the glorious garments wealth can win, E'en Solomon's... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 1142 pages
...the air ; for they sow not, neither do they reap ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Consider the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field which to-day is, and to-morro%v is cast into the... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...the cheering promises of God, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.' 12. " ' Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenly father clotheth them.' The Bible, that invaluable book, is my solace; the life of... | |
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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. 
