 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 364 pàgines
...sumptuously every day." Not that these words, simply considered, imply any imputation of guilt; for a man may be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, and yet be both a good man and a good Christian. But since we do not find this rich man described as... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pàgines
...most flowery and enchanting of all). * If you would enjoy life, come along with me: here you shall be " clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day :" here you may walk after the ways of your own heart, and the sight of your own eyes, and have nothing... | |
 | James Sherman - 1826 - 188 pàgines
...possessions. It is not necessary to constitute our bliss, that we revel in luxury, or that we should be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. Unsanctified wealth and poverty are both great curses; one can hardly tell which is the most productive... | |
 | 1836 - 344 pàgines
...soul, while luxury in palaces lay straining her low thoughts to form unreal wants ;" why a Dives should be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, and a Lazarus lie at his gate full of sores, begging the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table,... | |
 | John Bowden - 1831 - 472 pàgines
...happen to be at a distance from his Cathedral? Or that he cannot be a Bishop of that kind, if he should be " clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day 1 " You really, Sir, must be in great want of evidence, or you would not detain your readers with sucli... | |
 | James Slade - 1832 - 564 pàgines
...and dishonourable to God. The wicked may have an air of gaiety, may boast of their pleasures, may " be clothed in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day." Luke xvi. 19. But it is only an image of happiness, only a dream ; from which they will soon be terribly... | |
 | Joseph Ritson, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1833 - 340 pàgines
...do and will ever possess), shall afford you a much greater and more heartfelt satisfaction than to be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. I have told your mother, my young Sir, that I design to bring you up to town with me next vacation,... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pàgines
...dictate slavish submission to the working many, and priestcraft joins in the delusion, that it may be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. In the wordschurch and state, we have a lively idea presented to us of these two crafts, of their union... | |
 | Rev. Robert Lovett - 1837 - 232 pàgines
...inexhaustible — his influence unbounded — his person worshipped —and his opposition dreaded : though he be clothed in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day — though his external security be unmolested - and his outward peace unbroken—though his body repose... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1838 - 438 pàgines
...and if it were for my good, he would cover me with the choicest fleeces of the flock ; nay, I should be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. But if it be his will, that, in this world, the portion of Lazarus should be mine ; it is only that... | |
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He is of necessity a miserable and useless man ; and he is so, even though he be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. 
