| Joseph Roberts - Bible - 1835 - 652 pages
...of the wicked were alike sinful before God. The lamp (ie prosperity) of the wicked is sin. 9. — " It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." The termagants of the East are certainly not inferior to those of their own sex in any part of the... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 656 pages
...of the wicked were alike sinful before God. The lamp (te prosperity) of the wicked is sin. 9. — " It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." The termagants of the East are certainly not inferior to those of their own sex in any part of the... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...wrathful man stirreth up strife ; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. [Prov. xv. 17, 1s. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. [Prov. xxi. o. It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.... | |
| John Gardner Wilkinson - Agriculture - 1837 - 520 pages
...of the servants, or the peasants. It cannot, however, fail to call to mind the memorable proverb, " It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house * ; " though that character does not apply to the quiet and industrious female in the court below.... | |
| Literature - 1861 - 676 pages
...reconciled himself to his loss and his garret in the slightly modified words of his favourite Preacher: " It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top than with a brawling woman in — a first pair front." The proverb tells us that a burnt child dreads the fire, but all proverbs are trampled... | |
| 1837 - 680 pages
...thee. 23 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. 24 /( is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide hiuse. i*5 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good IH w;i from a far country. 26... | |
| Joseph Hall - Brownists - 1837 - 582 pages
...a continual droppins in the day of rain : a discomfort to the husband ; a rotting to the house. So, It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top than with a contentious woman in a wide house. And though, for society, Two be better than one; yet, It is better... | |
| Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 586 pages
...a continual dropping in the day of rain : a discomfort to the husband ; a rotting to the house. So, It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top than with a contentious woman in a wide house. And though, for society, Two be better than one ; yet, It is better... | |
| 1838 - 1196 pages
...to do judgment 8 The way of man is froward and strange : But as for the pure, his work ú right. 9 , and did to them according to all the acts that he ha 10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil : His neighbour > ' flndeth no favour in his eyes. 11 When... | |
| London female mission - 1838 - 444 pages
...express, that " it is better to dwell in a 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." The greater delicacy of the feminine form naturally inspires an expectation of softer and gentler qualities... | |
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