| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...heaven. For riches are not for ever : and doth the crown endure to every generation ? On Women. Proverbs. Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far...The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her ; she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh... | |
| John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - 1804 - 190 pages
...appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously ; and plead the came of the poor and needy. Who can find a virtuous woman ! for her price is....above rubies. The heart ,of her husband doth safely /r«j/ in her ; so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good, and not evil, all the... | |
| 1801 - 432 pages
...to be valued by her happy possessor, than all the brightest diamonds in the mines of the east. " The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil." A wellnurUired woman is man's best and truest friend. Her fidelity is inviolable as the covenant of... | |
| François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1805 - 266 pages
...indispensable rules of it. Let us conclude with the picture which the wise man has drawn of a virtuous woman. " Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far...him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchant ships, she bringeth... | |
| Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...to be valued by her happy possessor, than all the brightest diamonds in the mines of the east. " The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil." A well nurtured woman is man's best and truest friend. Her fidelity is inviolable as the covenant of... | |
| 1805 - 552 pages
...rubies. The heart' of her ¿uiband doth fafely truftin her, fo that he fliall have no need of fpoil. She will do him good and n,ot evil all the days of her life. She feeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ih'ps ; ihe... | |
| Alexander Hunter - 1806 - 298 pages
...attempt to Z come near to it will amply reward the fair iraitatrix. " The price of a virtuous woman is far above " rubies. The heart of her husband doth...good and not evil all " the days of her life. She seeketh wool and " flax, and worked) willingly with her hands. " She is like the merchants'* ships... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1806 - 460 pages
...improperly Called the state of nature, he could net long continue. In the former, there was laUur, .miiar above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely...trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. v>he will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool ai)d flax, and worked]... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 334 pages
...I wonder that it is not written in letters of gold in the great hall of every country gentleman. " Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far...good and not evil all the days of her life. " She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. " She is like the merchants ships, she... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...her : let him esteem her worth above all the precious rubies and diamonds of the world. XXXF. 1 1 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. Her husband may safely rely upon her trust and cure, for the maintenance and enriching of his family... | |
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