 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth...  To-day: The Popular Illustrated Magazine - Page 1791873Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...with food convenient for me. 17 Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth Ker food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1831 - 204 pages
...description that the wise man has given of a virtuous and accomplished woman ; " Her price," says he, " is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth...and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships> she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | 1853 - 1142 pages
...WILLIAM ADAMS, DD, OF NEW- YORK. THE GOOD WOMAN. " Who can find aa virtuous woman ? for her price ia far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely...and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 pages
...rubies. The heart of her HUSBAND doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 14 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worket/i willingly with her hands. She is like t/te merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pages
...conscience, reason, and honor, is industrious. Of him it may be said, as of Solomon's good housewife, ' She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands ; she is like the merchants' ship, she bringeth her food from afar ; she looketh well to her household, and... | |
 | John Robert McDowall - 1832 - 118 pages
...and to brotherly kindness, charity," without which she is " as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far...and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchant's ships, she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | 1832 - 440 pages
...offer yearly sacrifices. And, at a somewhat later period % Solomon thus describes the good wife, — " She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She perceiveth that her merchandise is good. Her household are clothed with scarlet**." * Job nod. 20.... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 pages
...the pencil of inspiration ; may Heaven propagate the resemblance. " Who can find a virtuous woman 1 ur hand, mighty as the rod of God in the hand of Moses, wherewith he is like the merchants' ships, she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...alone, Then— formed his LOVELY EVE ! Who can find a VIRTUOUS WOMAN? (Proverbs xxxi. 11. to the end) for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her...and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | 1834 - 680 pages
...her, she will do (or rather, like the rest, she doeth) him good, and not evil, all the days of his life ; she seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands ; she is like the merchant's ships, and bringeth her food from far ; she considereth a field, and buyeth... | |
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