| 1845 - 448 Seiten
...wealth be hoarded in avarice, or squandered ia dissipation — if, like the rich man in the gospel, we are "clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day,'' yet overlook the poor Lazarus who is laid at our gate " full of sores;" if we see our fellow-creatures... | |
| James Montgomery - 1824 - 312 Seiten
...the scenes, there are those, your sisters in profligacy, but not yet in misfortune, who, though they are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, — though they ride in the gilt chariot, and shine in the dress circle, — ere long must be outcasts... | |
| Moses Guest - 1824 - 182 Seiten
...more real happiness found in the most humble cottage, than in magnificent palaces, whose inhabitants are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. At 4 PM got to Basin-harbour, on the south side of Lake Champlain. December 10. Got to White-Hall,... | |
| Francis Close - 1825 - 244 Seiten
...excessive apparel, sumptuous entertainments, pompous display, and unnecessary establishments! They are " clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day," they recline on the lap of ease and self-indulgence, they pamper their appetites with costly viands—but... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1826 - 680 Seiten
...them not — naked, and ye clothe them not — sick, and ye do not visit them. In literal truth, ye are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, while the beggar with open sores is dying of hunger at your gate ! And this is the model which the... | |
| 1826 - 722 Seiten
...them not — naked, and ye clothe them not — sick, and ye do not visit them. In literal truth, ye are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, while the beggar with open sores is dying of hunger at your gate ! And this is the model which the... | |
| 1827 - 84 Seiten
...contented to be called a " ragged set," will not be so presumptuous as to court an alliance with. those who are " clothed in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day." — Editor of the Northern Ci*y." We present our readers this week with a " double CRY," as we were... | |
| John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 Seiten
...which will not easily gain admittance with the great, the rich, and the prosperous ; with those who ' are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day.' And yet, as unwelcome as the doctrine may be, we can scarce open a page of the Gospel, without finding... | |
| 1835 - 272 Seiten
...assuredly bite you!" The little girl to whom these entreaties were addressed, was of that class who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. Emmeline, like many other little girls of the same rank, was burdened with the adornments of mature... | |
| John Witherspoon - 1830 - 274 Seiten
...the dreadful change of state in those who are carried about in i < pomp and grandeur on earth; who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day ; but are, in a little time, tormented in hell fire. Formerly he valued persons by their station, by... | |
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