 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - 1775 - 620 sider
...looking-glafs becaufe it would not ihew her face to be as young and handfome as her next neighbour's was. And -I knew ano/ther, to whom God had given health, and plenty ; but a wife, that nature had made pceviQi, .and her hulband's riches had made purfe-proud, U 3 -and and muft, becaufe fhe was rich, and... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 sider
...looking-glass because it would not shew her face to be as young and handsome as her next neighbour's was. And I knew another to whom God had given health...for it, and at last into a law-suit with a dogged neighbour who was as rich as he, and had a wife as peevish and purseproud as the other : and this law-suit... | |
 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - 486 sider
...be as young and handsome as her next neighbour's was. And I knew another to whom God had given heakh and plenty; but a wife that nature had made peevish,...for it, and at last into a law-suit with a dogged neighbour who was as rich as lie, and had a wife as peevish and purseproud as the other : and this... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 sider
...looking-glass because it would not shew her face to be as young and handsome as her next neighbour's was. And I knew another, to whom God had given health,...for it ; and, at last, into a law-suit with a dogged neighbour, who was as rich as he, and had a wife as peevish >and purse-proud as the other : and this... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1824 - 512 sider
...looking-glass because it would not shew her face to be as young and handsome as her next neighbour's was. And I knew another, to whom God had given health,...but a wife, that nature had made peevish, and her hushand's riches had made purse-proud, and must, because she was rich, and for no other virtue, sit... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sider
...looking-glass because it would not shew her face to be ae young and handsome as her next neighbour's y of timber, which веешв to have been either a bedstead or a ci der- press. Our be hud made peevish, und hör husband's riches had made purse-proud ; und must, because ehe was rich,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 sider
...looking-glass because it would not shew her face to be as young and handsome as her next neighbour'* was. And 1 knew another to whom God had given health and plenty,...sit in the highest pew in the church ; which being demed her, she engaged her husband into a contention for it, and at last into a lawsuit with a dogged... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 sider
...lookingglass, because it would not show her face to be as young and handsome as her next neighbour's was. And I knew another, to whom God had given health,...virtue, sit in the highest pew in the church ; which, ueing denied her, she engaged her husband into a contention for it; and at last, into a law-suit with... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1842 - 532 sider
...looking-glass because it would not shew her face to be as young and handsome as her next neighbour's was. And I knew another, to whom God had given health...for it, and at last into a law-suit with a dogged neighbour, who was as rich as he, and had a wife as peevish and purse-proud as the other : and this... | |
 | 1843
...— and of bitterness and litigation throughout a parish. Izaac Walton tells us, " I knew one with a wife, that nature had made peevish, and her husband's...contention for it, and at last into a lawsuit with a dogged neighbour, who was as rich as he, and had a wife as peevish and purse-proud as the other, and this... | |
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God had given health and plenty ; but a wife that nature had made peevish, and her husband's riches had made purse-proud ; and must, because she was rich, and for no other virtue, sit in the highest pew in the church ; which being denied her, she engaged... 
