She riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry, her clothing is silk and purple. Strength and honour are in her clothing, and she shall rejoice in time to come. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 206by Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 563 pagesFull view - About this book
| American essays - 1914 - 878 pages
...seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. . . . She bringeth her food from afar. She riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - Women - 1914 - 104 pages
...seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. . . . She bringeth her food from afar. She riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she... | |
| Jessie A. Kelley - 1914 - 554 pages
...Doesn't it say, "She looketh well to the ways of her household. She worketh willingly with her hands. She riseth while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household." Doesn't this prove conclusively that woman's place is in the home and that she should attend to those... | |
| R. H. Andrews - Medicine - 1917 - 452 pages
...worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar; she riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it. With the fruit of hands, she... | |
| Thomas Hardy - 1921 - 484 pages
...aforesaid chapter : x" « < wjio can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far / above rubies. She riseth while it is yet night, and giveth \ meat to her household. She girdeth her loins with strength, I and strengthened her arms. She perceiveth that her mer> chandise... | |
| Clara Barrus - Naturalists - 1925 - 452 pages
...upsets. To one like Ursula Burroughs those lines in Proverbs must have been applied : ' She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household. . . . She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.' Although progress toward recovery was slow, with... | |
| Sanitary Institute of Great Britain - Public health - 1880 - 374 pages
...bringeth food from afar.' She is an early riser, and sees that everyone has an early breakfast. ' She riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens.' By exercise she strengthens her limbs. ' She layeth her hands to the... | |
| African American women - 1988 - 366 pages
...sleigh. At her return she would call for her children, to take them in her arms and talk to them. " She riseth while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens, she stretcheth out her hands to the poor, yea, she reacheth out her hands... | |
| Benita Eisler - Business & Economics - 1998 - 228 pages
...even more than all that King Solomon describes in the last chapter of Proverbs. She not only in winter "riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, a portion to her maidens," but she sitteth up far into the night, and seeth that her maidens are asleep,... | |
| Michael Wheeler - Literary Collections - 1999 - 330 pages
...fulfilling in all ways the Wise Man's description, whether of the queenly housewife or queenly nation: 'She riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She maketh herself covering of tapestry, her clothing is silk and purple.... | |
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