 | 1841 - 1136 pages
...The north wind drivcth rain : so doili an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. 2-1 It is belter lo RD. o For and in awide house. '5 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, 60 is good news from a far country. A1 fore... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1844 - 468 pages
...all you want, I will furnish that. Take this one from Solomon :— " It is better to dwell in a comer of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." Parishioner.— Do you mean ME, sir!" Parson.— Oh 1 my good woman, you will never make a good sermomzer... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - Bible - 1845 - 494 pages
...people went forth, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house." PROV. xxi. 9. " It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." ISA. xv. 3. " On the tops of their houses... every one shall howl." ISA. xxii. 1. " What aileth thee... | |
 | 1845 - 702 pages
...to do judgment. 8 The way of man is fro ward and strange : but as for the pure, his work is right. 9 Bible Society 10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil : his neighbour tindeth no favour in his eyes. 11 When the... | |
 | Bible - 1846 - 348 pages
...8 The way of the guilty man is crooked ; But he that is pure, his doings are right. 9 Better is it to dwell in a corner of the housetop Than with a brawling woman in a large house. 10 The soul of the wicked longs to do evil ; His neighbour finds no favor in his eyes.... | |
 | 1847 - 134 pages
...to be occasionally recognized in the subsequent Scriptures, as where Solomon says, for instance, " It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top than with a brawling woman in a wide house." And again, " It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman." This... | |
 | Tempers - Conduct of life - 1847 - 100 pages
...therewith;" that " it is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with an angry and contentious woman ;" " better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." Eccles. iv. 6; Prov. xv. 17; xvii. 1; xxv. 24. Most people who have made the same experiments would... | |
 | Charles Bridges - Bible - 1847 - 574 pages
...under provocation. Children. servants, and neighbors, suffer from this revolting hardness, and find "it better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house."7 But the godly matron has not only the law of love in her heart, but wisdom. in her mouth,... | |
 | Charles Roger - Bible - 1847 - 342 pages
...heart. 23 The north wind driveth away rain ; so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. 24 It it better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman, and in a wide house. CHAP. XXVI. 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like... | |
 | William Stephen Gilly - Bible - 1848 - 286 pages
...thus : — " Melh es seser al canton del colme que cum la fenna tanczonosa en la meison communa." " It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." Proverbs xxi. 9. " Melius est sedere in angulo domatis quam cum muliere litigiosa, et in domo communi."... | |
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. 
