 | Catherine Sinclair - England - 1838 - 406 pages
...feel so willing to go on foreign service ; and probably the Duke often agreed with Solomon, that " it is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." It is a well-known story, that when the Duke once hesitated to take some medicine prescribed for him,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1839 - 516 pages
...be very inconvenient. To such circumstances it is, probably, that Solomon alludes, when he says, " it is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." The allusion is rendered more perfect and striking by connecting with this passage the continual dropping... | |
 | Elocution - 1840 - 322 pages
...the LORD than sacrifice. A high look, and a proud heart, and the ploughing of the wicked', is sin. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top', than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor', he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...pure in heart do righteously, man is froward and strange : but as for the pure, his work is right. ' It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. The soul of the wicked desireth evil : his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. When the scorner... | |
 | 1840 - 870 pages
...thee. 23 The north wind drivelh awuy rain : so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. 21 // i* month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabe and in a wide house. 25 At cold waters to a thirsty soul, so it good news from a far country. 26 A... | |
 | M. A. Stodart - Christian life - 1840 - 260 pages
...peaceful joy, and joyful peace. I need not remind you where it is said that " It is better to dwell on a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house." " Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." Let " the law... | |
 | Isaac Nordheimer - Hebrew language - 1841 - 392 pages
...preposition prefixed to the noun forming its complement, eg T2.n mai ff|r1ra rrosra JSTSS by raob ana (it is) better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than (to dwell) with a brawling woman in a wide house, Prov. 21:9. § 782. Occasionally a comparison is... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...to do judgment. 8 The way of man is froward and strange : but as for the pure, his work is right. 9 It 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. 11 When the... | |
 | William Holt Yates - Egypt - 1843 - 620 pages
...keep off the sun, or as a place for retirement and contemplation. " It is better,' says Solomon, " to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." Prov. xxi. 9.t * This custom explains many passages of scripture. See Job xxi. 17. — 5.— Proy.... | |
 | George Buckmaster Gibbons - 1843 - 300 pages
...of his parish. I shall resume this subject in our next number. SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATION. "It it tetter to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide hotue." — Prov. xxi. 9, and xxv. 24. THEY sleep, in the summer, on the tops of the houses at Aleppo,... | |
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. 
