 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887 - 892 Seiten
...Christian, have the highest motive to treat Lazarus as your brother, and you do not so treat him while you are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, and he, your brother Lazarus, abides in putrid, festering, and leprous misery. Will not the leprosy... | |
 | 1908 - 212 Seiten
...many of them in our midst, of Christian life and Christian principles ? These are they who in our day are clothed in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day, and shut their eyes at the disagreeable sight of Lazarus at their doors. What is Christ's view of them... | |
 | 1914 - 640 Seiten
...many of them in our midst, of Christian life and Christian principles? These are they who in our day are clothed in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day, and shut their eyes at the disagreeable sight of Lazarus at their doors. What is Christ's view of them... | |
 | Frank Ferdinand Rosenblatt - 1916 - 268 Seiten
...means of the law ; it is given to a set of idle and dissolute men and women ; those who produce not, are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, while the laborer is fed with the crumbs which fall from the table of the rich. The working-men have... | |
 | Huntly Carter - 1918 - 320 Seiten
...population, it is urged, are poorly housed, poorly clad, underfed, and under-educated, while the few are clothed in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day. This, they say, is the result of the system inaugurated by the industrial revolution and of the unrestricted... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1920 - 794 Seiten
...sink into slum land, there might be more force in the objectors' view, but while the most degraded are ' clothed in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day,' the nation would not gain much by allowing the poorer portion of the degraded classes to perish, while... | |
 | Algernon Sidney Crapsey - 1924 - 320 Seiten
...and clergy, these singers and vergers do not serve God for naught; the bishops and the higher clergy are clothed in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day; when at home, butlers and maids stand behind their chairs to serve them at table; there are cooks in... | |
 | John Donne - 2003 - 258 Seiten
...manly strength, of Jezebel the haughty Oriental beauty, of Dives the representative of all rich men who are clothed in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day, and then reflects that strength, beauty, riches, all must come to dust: When Goliah had armed and fortified... | |
 | Solveig C. Robinson - 2003 - 332 Seiten
...words that burn,"2 to the fervid rhymes launched by the muse of Elliott^ at those who, like Dives, are "clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day," and yet see unmoved their poor brother, laid down to perish at their gates?4 And when his faith is... | |
 | Robert Smith - 2007 - 318 Seiten
...saying, and will not easily gain adherence 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 it is very clear and certain. We can scarce open a page... | |
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... clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, while the laborer is fed with the crumbs which fall from the table of the rich. 
