 | American literature - 1846 - 460 pages
...kinds of impurity, is of such quality that the king's stateliest robes cannot match it. " Consider the lilies of the field : they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like unto one of these." Nay, they are even glad to... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Sermons, English - 1846 - 484 pages
...Gospel of St. Luke, which is full of remarkable passages. " Consider," says St. Luke in this chapter, " the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet I say to you, that Solomon, in all his glory, was not equal to one of these. If God then so clothe... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - Adventure stories - 1846 - 512 pages
...earth, and yet how matchless ! Does not our Redeemer beautifully point it out, where he says, ' Consider the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.' "... | |
 | Protestantism - 1846 - 644 pages
...of the air: they sow not, neither do they reap ; yet your heavenly Father i feedeth them. 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. Wherefore, if God so clothe the... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1847 - 662 pages
...continually for food. It teaches them to imitate those saints on the pension list that are like the lillies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet are arrayed like Solomon in his glory. In fine, it teaches a lesson, which, indeed, they might have learned from Epictetus, that... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 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 - Astronomy - 1848 - 378 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 Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1849 - 290 pages
...of life." So a greater authority than Lord Byron has given his testimony on this subject : " Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Shakspeare... | |
 | Richard Sherlock - Devotional exercises - 1849 - 442 pages
...in Thy sight, than in the censorious eyes of men. II. "And why take ye thought for raiment? 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 p." How... | |
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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. 
