 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.  Notes and Queries - Page 411887Full view - About this book
 | 1611 - 360 pages
...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...hands ; And let her own works praise her in the gates. ECCLESIASTES OR THE PREACHER THE words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. VANITY... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - English essays - 1714 - 382 pages
...praifeth her. •MANY Daughters have done virtuoufly, but thou • excelled them all. •'FAVOUR is deceitful, and Beauty is vain ; but a • Woman that feareth the Lord, flie (hall be praifed. ' GIVE her of the Fruit of her Hands, and let ber • own Works praife her in... | |
 | Oswald Dykes - 1722 - 400 pages
...Heaven, and the unrival'd Darling of Earth, without any farther faint Panegyrick. V ER SE VERSE XXXI. GIVE her of the Fruit of her Hands ; and let her own Works praife her in the Gutes. PARAPHRASE. IS not in the Power of my Capacity, to extol this noble Lady's... | |
 | 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 ' ' .... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1734 - 382 pages
...FAVOUR is deceitful, and Beauty is vain, but a ' Woman that feareththe Lord, fhe ihall be praifed. 'GIVE her of the Fruit of her Hands, and let her ' own Works praife her in the Gates. Tour humble Servant. SIR, ' I Ventured to your Lion with the following Lines,... | |
 | Peter Brett - English literature - 1748 - 260 pages
...Favour is deceitful, and Btauty is vain ; but a Woman that feareth the Lord, fhe ftial! be praifed. Give her of the Fruit of her Hands, and let her own Works praife her in the Gates. Jsy, Pleafure, and Content, doth every Hour, . £ncompafsthim, who in his... | |
 | Richard Barton - Electronic books - 1751 - 240 pages
...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." This charming <:haradler is founded upon a great -degree of ufeful knowledge... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1751 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | Lady - 1759 - 284 pages
...beauty is vain v but a woman that faithfully difcharges her ftveral duties, fhe Ihall be praifed. Give Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praife her in the gates of the land. This is the character Clelia aims at obtaining ; and this, adorned... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1763 - 576 pages
...all. Comelincfs is deceitful, and beauty is vain : but the woman that fears the Lord (hall be praifed. Give her of the fruit of her hands : and let her own works commend her at the gate of the city. GRADUAL. Pf. xliv. Grace is fpread on thy DifFufa eft gratia in... | |
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