| California. Legislature - 1885 - 1039 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... | |
| Robert Burns - 1886 - 468 páginas
...domestic, but perhaps not quite so industrious, as Penelope in the absence of her hero. I resemble rather 'the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin ' ; but I read, I write, I sing, and contrive to wile away the time, as pleasantly as any sociable... | |
| Aubrey De Vere - 1887 - 336 páginas
...Churchyard among the Mountains" had considered the ways of those laborious men, as he had "considered the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin." He had marked how Nature, with her rough sweetness, had prompted their youthful vivacities ; how, with... | |
| Henry Mills Alden - 1890 - 328 páginas
...saith, " My yoke is easy and my burden is light." As a similitude of spiritual growth, he showeth us the lilies of the field, " which toil not, neither do they spin." Surely the child of God hath left "II. Esdras, vii. 13. tlbid.,vii. 18. all care behind. "Take no thought... | |
| Heinrich Heine - 1893 - 534 páginas
...are so dear to the poet; they will fell my groves of laurel and plant potatoes in their place, and the lilies of the field, which toil not neither do they spin, and yet are more magnificently arrayed than was King Solomon in all his glory, will be rooted up from... | |
| Heinrich Heine - 1893 - 532 páginas
...are so dear to the poet ; they will fell my groves of laurel and plant potatoes in their place, and the lilies of the field, which toil not neither do they spin, and yet are more magnificently arrayed than was King Solomon in all his glory, will be rooted up from... | |
| Heinrich Heine - 1893 - 570 páginas
...are so dear to the poet ; they will fell my groves of laurel and plant potatoes in their place, and the lilies of the field, which toil not neither do they spin, and yet are more magnificently arrayed than was King Solomon in all his glory, will be rooted up from... | |
| William De Britaine - 1897 - 260 páginas
...her too ; among her productions, the idle man is only a ' mare mortuum.' I would not have you like the lilies of the field which ' toil not neither do they spin.' I am much pleased with his device, who placed for his imprese1 a pair of compasses with this motto,... | |
| Felix Adler - 1905 - 232 páginas
...certain unfriendliness to labour. In Genesis, labour is represented as a curse. In the New Testament, the lilies of the field, "which toil not neither do they spin," are held up as examples. Not working for the morrow, but letting to-morrow take care of itself is commended... | |
| Louise Forsslund, Mary Louise Foster - 1909 - 298 páginas
...and lonely room. Angy felt strangely encouraged and comforted. The roses became symbolical to her of the "lilies of the field which toil not, neither do they spin"; the robin was one of the "two sparrows sold for a farthing, and one of them shall not fall to the ground... | |
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