 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 Seiten
...moreover a kind neighbour, and an obedient henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such...the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-sulFering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing;... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 520 Seiten
...moreover, a kind neighbor, and an obedient, henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such...the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation ; and a curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 Seiten
...moreover, a kind neighbor, and an obedient hen-pecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such...the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing;... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 Seiten
...moreover, a kind neighbour, and an obedient hen-pecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such...universal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequitras and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 524 Seiten
...moreover, a kind neighbor, and an obedient, henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such...the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation ; and a curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 570 Seiten
...henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gamed him such universal popularity ; for those men are...the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation ; and a curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 Seiten
...Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such imiversal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious...abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at homo. Thoir tempers, doubtless, uro rendered pliant and malleable in tho fiery furiuico of domestic... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 Seiten
...moreover, a kind neighbour, and an obedient, henpecked husband. Indeed, to the la.ter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such...the world for teaching the virtues of patience and longsuffering. A termagant wife may therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing... | |
 | 1872 - 660 Seiten
...moreover, a kind neighbor, an obedient, henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such...the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation ; and a curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 Seiten
...moreover, a kind neighbour, and an obedient, henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are apt to be obsequious and conciliatory abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Certain... | |
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I have observed that he was a simple, good-natured man; he was moreover a kind neighbor, and an obedient henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those... 
