...bitterness. Your sufferings are not unnumbered. What, though you may be left to pine in wretchedness by those who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and who fare sumptuously every day, there are other higher and purer creatures, whose office it is to be ministers unto you for good ;...

...bitterness. Your sufferings are not unnumbered. What, though you may be left to pine in wretchedness by those who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and who fare sumptuously every day, there are other higher and purer creatures, whose office it is to be ministers unto you for good; whose...

...hitterness. Your sufferings are not unnumhered. What, though you may he left to pine in wretchedness hy those who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and who fare sumptuously every day ; there are higher and purer creatures whose office it is to he ministers to you for good ; whose constant...

...There are hundreds of them roiling through our streets in pomp and splendour; who wallow in luxury — who are "clothed in purple, and fine linen, and who fare sumptuously every day." And there ara ten times ten thousand others, who, as far as possible, imitate their example ; who expend...

...liberally and abundantly to what they consider to be calls of charity. But it is very hard for those who are " clothed in purple and fine linen, and who fare sumptuously every day," to realize in any practical way the wants and the distresses of the poor. They set aside a certain...

...Lancashire at the present time would not he without benefit even to those who are so fortunate as to be clothed in purple and fine linen and who fare sumptuously every day. The sad realities of the Cotton Famine are brought so perceptibly to tlic very doors of our northern...

...may have chafed and repined at your imaginary sentimental sorrows, are yet one of those favoured ones who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and who fare sumptuously every day. You, the heir to a large fortune — beautiful, brave, young, high-born. You, who ride through life...

...of heaven, surely one reason for that difficulty may be found in the comparative isolation of those who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and who fare sumptuously every day. The " divinity that doth hedge a king" is not only not without its thorns, but is very instrumental...

...always in harmony with every effort to raise the fallen. But it frowns upon the sin committed by those clothed in purple and fine linen and who fare sumptuously every day, with not less severity than it does upon the same sin committed by the poorest and vilest reprobate...

...themselves, whom consciously or unconsciously they had in their mind's eye as they wrote, were those who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and who fare sumptuously every day. Thackeray's works are full of moral instruction of a kind, but it is of a kind which scarcely applies...