| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 páginas
...study to oblige and please him ; and tins, not 13 only in sudden Jits of good humour, but all her days. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands ; she provides employment for her servants, and sets them a good example. 14 She is like the merchants' ships... | |
| François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1805 - 266 páginas
...so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do 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 her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
| John Millar, John Craig - 1806 - 470 páginas
...a vineyard. *' She perceiveth that her merchandise is good : " her candle goeth not out by night. " She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her " hands hold the distaff. " She stretcheth out her hand to the poor ; yea, " she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. " She is not afraid of the snow... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1806 - 460 páginas
...aims. She p'-rceiveth that her merchandize .is good : her candle goeth not out by night. She lay«th her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.. She stretcheth out her hand to the poor ; yea, she reacheth foith her hands to the needy. She is not afraid of the snow for... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 334 páginas
...that he shall have no need of spoil. " She will do 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 merchants ships, she bringeth her food from afar. " She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
| Isaac Taylor - 1811 - 258 páginas
...the description of a wise woman, Prov. xxxi. is, that " she riseth early even while it is yet night. She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness." Even the brute creatures... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 páginas
...gives of a virtuous woman ; who seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands ; that she layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff; that she is not afraid of the snow, for her household are clothed with scarlet ; that she maketh fine... | |
| 1812 - 680 páginas
...her husband doth safely trust in her ; she will do him good, and not evil , all the days of her life. She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She stretcheth forth her hand to the poor; yea she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. Her husband is known in... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 498 páginas
...among the Hebrews, appears in Solomon's portrait of a virtuous woman. " She seeketh wool and flax— she layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff." Both spindle and distaff were frequently dedicated to Minerva, the patroness of spinning, and of the... | |
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