 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 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;... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 Seiten
...siege of Fort Christina. He inherited, however, but little of the martial character of his ancestors. that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal...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 - 1848 - 482 Seiten
...circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popular ,'. tvv*^£t ity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. A termigant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing;... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 Seiten
...Noun: " I will not call you cowards." verb. (2) Adjective: "Manners make beauty superfluous and ugly;" "Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and...malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation." In this last sentence, the object is made the subject by being passive, and the words italicized are... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1896 - 416 Seiten
...an obedient hen- : pecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that ineekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity...home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant aud malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation ; and a curtain lecture is worth all the... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 256 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-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing;... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 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 - 1897 - 152 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 1 Irving had no special... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 50 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-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing;... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 330 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...worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtue of patience and long suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered... | |
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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... 
