 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
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 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, he considered a tolerable blessing; and if so. Rip... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 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...domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all die sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long suffering. A termagant wife... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 sider
...world to know. Humble people. I've found, don't get very tar. Muhammad Ali (b. 1942) American boxer Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Washington Irving (1783-1859) American author The old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 sider
...of a leitet lo his wife, 6 June 1 749. from facsimile in AM Broadley, Chais on Autographs (1910). IB , ed. by James Strachey and Anna Freud. 1953). 21...Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy WASHINGTON IRVING (1763-1859), US author. The Sketch Book, 'Rip Van Winkle" (1819-20). 19 I've had... | |
 | Washington Irving, Thea Kliros - 1995 - 84 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 suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing;... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sider
...ch. 12(1591). The adage is also found in Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy, pt. 3, set. 3 (1621). 7 Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating...abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. WASHINGTON IRVING, (1783-1859) US author. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. "Rip Van Winkle"... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 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...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.... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 648 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... | |
 | Mary Ellen Lamb, Karen Bamford - 2008 - 292 sider
...of a Curtain-Lecture" ("Curtain-lecture"), and the narrator of Rip Van Winkle ( 1 820) affirms that "a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the...teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering" (Irving 938). Thomas Heywood, Brathwait's contemporary, mocks the longsuffering husband as he explains... | |
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