 | Catherine Sinclair - 1848 - 478 pagina’s
...service; and probably the Duke often agreed with Solomon, that " it is better to dwell in a cornti of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." It is a well-known story, that when tie Duke once hesitated to take some medicine prescribed for him,... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - 1236 pagina’s
...ii froward and strange : Irai ai for the pure, his work is right. Л i» better to dwell in a comer @ + Tl> soul of the wicked desireth fil : his neighbour findeth no fatour in his eyes. When the scorner... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1849 - 490 pagina’s
...text. Minister. — Oh, if a text is what you want, I will furnish that. Take this one, from Solomon: "It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than in a wide house with a brawling woman." Parishioner. — Do you mean me, sir? Minister. — Oh, my... | |
 | William Laxton - 1850 - 452 pagina’s
...master could overlook his household; as Sir Gardiner Wilkinson remarks, it calls to mind the proverb : "It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." The shops were either open stalls similar to those in an eastern bazaar, or else mere booths in the... | |
 | David Masson - 1850 - 444 pagina’s
...is |^ the little chamber on the roof, the = rooms below being used for goods. In Proverbs xxi. 9, ' It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top than with a brawling woman in a wide honse,' there may be an allusion to this, the style of lodging used, we suppose, by single farm-servants,... | |
 | 1851 - 596 pagina’s
...curiosity, " What does this mean? " "Mean!" repeated the man; "it means that 'it is better to dwell in the corner of the house-top than with a brawling woman in a wide house.' " WHILE over life's wide darkling plain Unheedingly we roam, Through many a path of joy and pain, .... | |
 | 1851 - 436 pagina’s
...curiosity, " What does this mean? " "Mean!" repeated the man; "it means that 'it is better to dwell in the corner of the house-top than with a brawling woman in a wide house.' " WHILE over life's wide darkling plain Unheedingly we roam, Through many a path of joy and pain, REVERIES... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pagina’s
...do judgment. 8. The way of man is froward and strange ; but as for the pure, his work is right. 9. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. 10. The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. 11. When the... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1852 - 698 pagina’s
...mentions the opposite blemish in illustrating the female character : " It is better to dwell in the corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house"— " The contentious of a wife are a continual dropping" — and so on. We should deem it invidious to... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 544 pagina’s
...Divorce, 111. 256. contentions of a wife are a continual dropping." See also xxvii. 1 5. xxi. 9. " it is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." v. !9. " it is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman." See... | |
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. 
