 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...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 4961914Full view - About this book
 | M C. Best - 1851 - 192 pages
...Bible out of the shelf, and began turning it back and forwards, when my eye glanced upon those words in Proverbs : ' She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands ;' and then in a few verses below : ' She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.'... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1851 - 250 pages
...approval of the wise king. He asks, " 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 layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff." (Prov. xxxi. 10, 13, 19.) There needs... | |
 | Stephen Wilkinson Dowell - 1852 - 236 pages
...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 merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1852 - 664 pages
...all. Clothing could also be supplied, with the assistcnee of that help which God has provided for man. 'She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She iaveth her hanus to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.' The postponement or neglect to legislate... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - Business ethics - 1853 - 432 pages
...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 merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Domestic relations - 1853 - 334 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - Business & Economics - 1853 - 434 pages
...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 merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet eight,... | |
 | 1854 - 512 pages
...to go to war, or take to the highway. " 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,... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1855 - 1020 pages
...be who prized a virtuous woman far above rubies, has thus described her' duties and her reward ; " She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands ; she layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry,... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Brazil - 1856 - 476 pages
...mistress of the establishment to be of the order of women, so graphically described by the wise man — " she seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise... | |
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