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. The Guardian - Page 316by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1714 - 347 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1611 - 360 pages
...blessed ; Her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, But thou excellest them all. 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... | |
| Richard Allestree - 1727 - 298 pages
...CallingIN TWO PA.RTS. By the Author of the WHOLE DUTY OF MAN, &c. The Twelfth Impreflion. ' Favour if deceitful, and Beauty is vain : but a Woman that feareth the Lord, Jbe Jhall be praifed. Prov. 31. 30. 0 XF 0 R 2), Printed at the THEATER, MDCCXXVIL e,. 5^ THE ' ' .... | |
| Peter Brett - English literature - 1748 - 260 pages
...blefled ; her Hufband alfo, and he praifeth her: Many Daughters have done virtuoufly, bat thou excelleft them all. Favour is deceitful, and Beauty is vain -. but a Woman that feareih the Lord, fhe fhall be praifed. Give her of the Fruit of her Hands, aad let her own Works praife... | |
| Richard Barton - Electronic books - 1751 - 240 pages
...the higheft praife. •c u " and he praifeth her. Many daughters have done virtuoufly, and thotr " excelled: them all. Favour is deceitful and beauty...is vain ; but a " Woman that feareth the Lord, flie fliall be praifed. Give her of the " fruit of her hands, and let her own works praife her in the gates."... | |
| Conduct of life - 1751 - 382 pages
...and Compliment which vain and idle Spirits pay to Beauty and gay Clothes. Favour, fays one that knew, is deceitful, and 'Beauty is vain, but a Woman that feareth the Lord jhe jhall be praifed. Favour and Beauty have their Praife, vain and deceitful as they are, beilow'd... | |
| Conduct of life - 1772 - 402 pages
...compliment which vain and iflL- fpirits pay to beauty and gay .clothes. " Favour, fays one that knew, is deceitful, and -" beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the lord me " mail bepraifed." Favour and beauty have their praile, vain and deceitful as they are, bellowed... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1776 - 610 pages
...to myfelf, Dareft thou give over that bufinefs ? I thought on it,t and that word, Prov. xxxi. 30. " Favour is deceitful, a'nd beauty is vain : but a woman that feareth the Lord, fhc fhall be praifed." I went to the Lord with it, earneftly defiring light from him ; and that word... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1776 - 582 pages
...to myfelf, Dareft thou give over that bufinefs ? I thought on it, and that word, Prov. xxxi. 30. " Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain : but a woman that feareth the Lord, fhe fhall be praifed." I went to the Lord with it, earneftly defiring light from him ; and that word... | |
| 1785 - 772 pages
...her ' blefled; her hufband »Ifo, and he ' pnifeth her. ' Many daughters have done virtu• ouflv, but thou excelled them all. • Favour is deceitful, and beauty is ' vain; but a woman that feaieth th< ' Lord, (he (hall bepraifed. ' Give her of the fruit of her hands, ' and let her own works... | |
| Stéphanie Félicité comtesse de Genlis - Bible plays - 1786 - 382 pages
...hands. She ftretcheth forth her hand to the pobr, yea, fhe reacheth forth her hands to the needy. Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain ; but a woman that feareth the Lord, Ihe fhall be praifed. PKOv. chap. xxxi. ver. 13, 26, 33. SCENE I. The Wi D o Vf t feafedat her door... | |
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