 | 1611 - 360 páginas
...shall reward thee. The north wind driveth away rain: So doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, So is good news from a far country. A righteous... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 páginas
...night.; and to this circumstance probably Solomon alludes, when he cays, •'' it is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." The fruit tree called the Damascene, and the flower calU ted the damask roue, were introduced into... | |
 | James Fordyce - 1809 - 332 páginas
...wrath, and anger, and clamour, " and evil speaking, and all malice !" " it is " better, says Solomon, to dwell in the corner of " the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a " wide house ;" he might have added, or in a magnificent palace. In so doing, he would have probably spoken from... | |
 | 1814 - 568 páginas
...says, " to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman ;" and in another place, "It is better to dwell in the corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman, and in a wide house." Montaigne has an observation equally satirical : " The concern," he says, " that... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 páginas
...dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman." — " It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." To " the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price," and possesses... | |
 | 1815 - 614 páginas
...of man is froward and strange : but as for the pure, his work is right. 9 // is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. 10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil : his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. 1 1 When the... | |
 | George Holden - 1819 - 538 páginas
...do judgment. 8 The way of man is perverse and strange ; But as for the pure, his work is upright. 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the house-top, Than with a brawling woman in a common house. 10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil ; Even his neighbour findeth no favour in his... | |
 | 1819 - 948 páginas
...<£• man i» froward and Strange : but as for the pure, his work u right. 9 It is better to vcll in a the earling upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands. 48 And 10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findelh no favour in his eyes. 11 When the scorner... | |
 | 1819 - 488 páginas
...his bones g ; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping h. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house '. Better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman k. SECT. 6. — To be... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 páginas
...he offend not with his tongue," or he will find to his sorrow, if he marry a person of this stamp, " it is better to dwell in the corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." Those whom I would distinguish by the name of CAPRICORNUS, are a very considerate class of creatures.... | |
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. 
