 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
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 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 2 at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable3 in the fiery furnace4 of domestic... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 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 shrews2 at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable3 in the fiery furnace4... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 sider
...spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be meek and obsequious abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at...Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and easy in the fiery furnace of domestic trial, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 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... | |
 | 1888 - 742 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1888 - 624 sider
...might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who...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.... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 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...pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation,5 and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 276 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... | |
 | 1891 - 432 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 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... | |
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