...•be kept still at home, being careful to educate and bring up her children in virtue and piety, and looked well to the ways of her household, and ate not the bread of idleness: a rare example for the ladies of this age. " Sin: was most careful to nip the first bads of vice that...

...spindle and to the distaff; who made fine linen and sold it, and delivered girdles to the merchant; who looked well to the ways of her household, and ate not the bread of idleness. But time has wrought a change in the circumstances and habits of females of the present age, though...

...which she much delighted in, and often read, was spent chiefly in commending that diligence " by which she looked well to the ways of " her household, and ate. not the bread of idleness;" and she knew also, that the person whose words these are said to be, was no less a woman than the mother...

...she kept still at home, being careful to educate and bring up her children in virtue and piety, and looked well to the ways of her household, and ate not the bread of idleness : a rare example for the ladies of this age. She was most careful to nip the first buds of vice that...

...woman, whose price was far above rubies ; — the heart of whose husband might trust in her; — who looked well to the ways of her household, and ate not the bread of idleness; — whose children rise up and call her blessed ; her husband also, and he praiseth her; — who was...

...opinions ! His was the " prudent wife from the Lord," whose adorning was a meek and quiet spirit ; who looked well to the ways of her household, and ate not the bread of idleness. She was older than he ; and though the world may differ in opinion, especially the unthinking part,...

...and wise ; she was simple, sincere, and modest ; she was full of sensibility and fine sentiment ; yet she looked well to the ways of her household, and ate not the bread of idleness. " Her children arise up and call her blessed ; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many dau«hters...

...Lord fully. She lived under the sanctifying power of the gospel, and walked in the light of the Lord. She looked well to the ways of her household, and ate not the bread of idleness. She loved all the ordinances of God's house, and ever found them wells of salvation. But no ordinance...

...dwell under the shades of the vast and savage woods. Her employments were humble, but her aims lofty. " She looked well to the ways of her household, and ate not the bread of idleness." Through long days and sleepless nights, she watched over her tender children. And when distant labors,...

...pre-eminently a domestic character ; and in this capacity, she guided her affairs with discretion, looked well to the ways of her household, and ate not the bread of idleness. To her, as the female head of the female department, of this large establishment, causes of anxiety...