| Jane West - 1806 - 490 pages
...WITH A REFERENCE TO PRETAILING OPINIONS. BY MRS. WEST, AUTHOR OF LETTERS TO A YOUHG MAN, &C. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be"praised. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I.LONDON: Prov. xxxi. 30. PRINTED FOR 1ONGMAN, HURST j REES, AND... | |
| John Stephens (Methodist minister.) - 1806 - 22 pages
...heart— the qualities of her mind — her domeftic accomplifhments — and, above all her piety ! Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain ; but a woman that feareth the Lord, me (hall be praifed ; her price is far above rubies ; the heart of her hufband doth iafely truft in... | |
| James Fordyce - 1809 - 332 pages
...—HTiidi becometh women professing Godliness., ' • . PROV. xxxi. SO. favour is deceitful, and beauty it vain ; but a woman that feareth the Lord, She shall be praised. 1 HE frailty of women has been frequently a topic of trumphant declamation. On this subject much ,... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...that had both grace and beauty on her side, who will perfectly agree with me in sentiment — " Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands [of faith] and let her own labours [of love] praise her in the gates"... | |
| Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné - 1811 - 364 pages
...dwelling upon or omitting all that should or should not be said. His text was these words, " Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain ; but a woman that feareth the Lord,%he shall be praised." He divided * AnneGenevieve de Bourbon, daughter of Henry Bourbon, second... | |
| 1812 - 680 pages
...idleness, Her children arise up " and call her blessed ; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Favour is " deceitful!, and beauty is vain ; but a woman that feareth the LORD « she shall be praised.'" Vol. II. pp. 104*— 108. The other passage, which we had in view, is the counter^ part of this, and... | |
| William Jay - 1812 - 284 pages
...influence those who have companions to choose ; and also those who have connections to form. 0 young man, ' favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, ' but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be prais' ed.' O young woman, devote thyself to nothingprofane, sceptical, irreligious: marry, but only... | |
| 1863 - 900 pages
...cannot forbear adding Solomon's testimony to a virtuous woman : " Her price is far above rubies. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of ker hand*; and let her own works praise her in the gates." CW • See page... | |
| William Huntington - 1819 - 886 pages
...for fear of wrath, but under a daily sense of superabounding mercy to the worst of sinners. " Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain : but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates," Prov. xxxi. 50,... | |
| William Clayton - 1814 - 420 pages
...husband also, and " he praiseth her. Many daughters have done " virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favor " is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman " that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give " her of the fruit of her hands ; and let her own " works praise her in the gates."* Instil into... | |
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