| 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... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1833 - 512 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... | |
| William Cobbett - Finance - 1834 - 446 pages
...parties create nothing. I will not compare such delicate 'ladies to " stock upon a farm ;" but " like the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin." . They do no work, they create nothing useful, they make come neither food nor raiment nor fuel nor... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 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
...its si<k and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight and tin solemnity of his example. " Behold the lilies of the field they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet your heavenly Fatlin careth for them." He expatiates on the beauty of a sinjilt flower, and draws... | |
| Scotland - 1838 - 894 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...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... | |
| 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... | |
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