Citations:figs from thistles

English citations of figs from thistles

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 7:16:

  Yee shall knowe them by their fruits: Doe men gather grapes of thornes, or figges of thistles?

• 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 24:

  Will men never be wise? will they never cease to expect corn from tares, and figs from thistles?

• (Can we date this quote?), Rudyard Kipling, An Imperial Rescript:

  The day that they razored the Grindstone, the day that the Cat was belled, The day of the Figs from Thistles, the day of the Twisted Sands,