 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...  Intensive Studies in American Literature - Side 71af Alma Blount - 1914 - 331 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 538 sider
...circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teachi ing the virtues of patience and long-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 sider
...circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at hörne. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of dompstic... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 sider
...circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...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 sider
...circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...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 sider
...circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 sider
...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...the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-sufiering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing;... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 sider
...circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such imiversal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...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 sider
...circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...teaching the virtues of patience and longsuffering. A termagant wife may therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing ; and if so, Rip... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 sider
...circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...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.... | |
 | 1872 - 660 sider
...rendered pliant and malleable in 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. A termagant wife may therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing ; and, if so,... | |
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