 Do men gather grapes of thorns ?"ยง But this our Thorn (God send us many coppices of them) was a blessing to our nation, and wine and oil may be said freely to flow from him. Being bred a merchant tailor in London he gave more than four thousand four...  A Book of Bristol Sonnets - Page 25by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1877 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 616 pages
...matters not what the name be, so the nature be good. I confess, Thorns came in by "man's curse ;"J and our Saviour saith, " Do men gather grapes of thorns...wine and oil may be said freely to flow from him. Being bred a merchant tailor in London he gave more than four thousand four hundred forty-five pounds... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...[Bristol]. I see it matters not what the name be, so the nature be good. I confess Thorns came in by ' man's curse ' and our Saviour saith, 'Do men gather grapes...wine and oil may be said freely to flow from him. Being bred a merchant-tailor in London he gave more than four thousand four hundred and fortyfive pounds... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Business & Economics - 1886 - 532 pages
...and our Saviour saith, " Do not gather grapes of thorns." But this our Thorn (God send us many copies of them) was a blessing to our nation, and wine and oil may be said freely to flow from him.' 9 A merchant of Bristol, he was also a member of the Merchant Taylors' Guild in London, and for many... | |
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