 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 494 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...universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be obseijujpus and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 160 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...fiery furnace of domestic tribulation ; and a curtain 1 Governor of Manhattan Island in 1647. 2 Fort Christina, or Christiana, was a Swedish fort, situated... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 242 Seiten
...Fort Cassimir (now Newcastle, Del.), attacked and captured by the Dutch of New Netherlands in 1655. lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and lo'ng-suffering. A termagant wife may therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 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 universal popularity ; for those men nre most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 318 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 sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of " He was moreover, a kind neighbour, and an obedient, henpecked husband.— V. 23. patience and long-suffering.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 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 world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 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 world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing;... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 404 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 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 - 1894 - 280 Seiten
...kind neighbour, and an obedient, hen-pecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might ta be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such...Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and mal20 leable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 422 Seiten
...moreover, a kind neighbor, and an obedient, henpecked husband. Indeed, to th.e latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such...shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered 7>liant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tr1bulation ; and a curtain-lecture is worth... | |
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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... 
