 | Thomas Wetherald - Sermons, American - 1826 - 360 pages
...the tree be impure, the fruit will be also impure. Here is a criterion by which we may judge: "For men do not gather grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles" — "neither doth a spring send forth salt water and fresh." This is a medium we may judge ourselves by, if we are... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - Apologetics - 1854 - 640 pages
...holy inward happiness of the man who worships God in spirit and in truth, as earth is unlike heaven. Men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles, neither do they experience that joy which is a fruit of the Spirit, in a religion which is merely formal and not... | |
 | Commerce - 1860 - 782 pages
...Christianize them. Nor is it probable that future efforts in this direction will be much more successful. " Men do not gather grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles." Neither will they gather the fruit of Christianity from Hindoo character. It is difficult to say what progress... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1860 - 836 pages
...Christianize them. Nor is it probable that future efforts in this direction will be much more successful. " Men do not gather grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles." Neither will they gather tlie fruit of Christianity from Hindoo character. It is difficult to say what progress... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - Skepticism - 1863 - 344 pages
...holy inward happiness of the man who worships God in spirit and in truth,, as earth is unlike heaven. Men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles; neither do they experience that joy which is a fruit of the Spirit, in a religion which is merely forma] and not... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1884 - 876 pages
...— in some cases the exact counterpart of the parent, and in others slightly modified, but always showing more or less of the parent type. Men do not...neither do short-horn cows bring forth buffalo calves, nor draft mares produce thoroughbred racehorses. White women do not produce negro children when the... | |
 | James Harvey Sanders - Horses - 1893 - 476 pages
...— in some cases the exact counterpart of the parent, and in others slightly modified; but always showing more or less of the parent type. Men do not...neither do Short-horn cows bring forth buffalo calves nor draft mares produce thoroughbred race horses. Hence, although we may frequently meet with very... | |
 | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Mormon Church - 1903 - 474 pages
...its fruit be seen throughout the length and breadth of the land. By their fruits ye shall know them. Men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs ,of thistles; neither does a bitter fountain send forth sweet water. We, as a people, deplore as much as anybody can the... | |
 | 1923 - 756 pages
...drive. Without this there is no mind, just as there is no seed without capacity of germination. If men do not gather grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles, neither do they gather full-grown minds on the barren wastes of incapacity. Mind grows from within, or it grows... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1855 - 604 pages
...theory, is uniformly marked. Suppress it you possibly might, but deprave it you surely could not. " Men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles;" neither from the essentially religious heart of man could proceed the fruits of infidelity, vice, or discord.... | |
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... showing more or less of the parent type. Men do not gather grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles, neither do Short-horn cows bring forth buffalo calves nor draft mares produce thoroughbred race horses. 