| British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...human life, has not given us a more apt and lively comparison than the following: ' As the climbing a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man/ Nor has one of our Grecian poets spoken so feelingly, so eloquently, or so elegantly of beauty, as... | |
| 1803 - 240 pages
...Ms, has not given us a more apt aj•.d lively comparison than the following : " As " the climbing a sandy way is to the feet of the " aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man." Nor has one of our Grecian poets, spoken so feelingly, so eloquently, or so elegantly of beauty, as... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...given as - a portion to a wicked man: but a godly woman is given unto him that feareth the Lord. As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man. Stumble not at the beauty of a woman, and desire her not for pleasure. Turn away thine eye from a beautiful... | |
| Robert Southey - 1808 - 274 pages
...twentyfilth chapter of Ecclesiasticus—' All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man. Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die. Give the water no passage ; neither... | |
| Robert Southey - 1808 - 388 pages
...twenty-fifth chapter of Ecclesiasticus. (t All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.—Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.—Give. the water no passage... | |
| Robert Southey - 1808 - 440 pages
...chapter of Ecclesiasticus. " All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. As the climb^pg up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man. — Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die. — Give the water no passage... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 334 pages
...human life, has not given us a more apt and lively comparison than the following : ' As the climbing a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.' Nor has one of our Grecian poets spoken so feelingly, so eloquently, or so elegantly of beauty, as... | |
| George Lawson - 1821 - 452 pages
...Ver. 26. She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. As a sandy hill is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man ; but the virtuous woman plagues neither her husband nor any other man with her talk. She has learned... | |
| 1822 - 184 pages
...Her husband shall sit among his neighbours ; and when he heareth it, shall sigh bitterly. 162 As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man. A wicked woman abaleth the courage, maketh an heavy countenance, and a wounded heart : a woman that... | |
| John Hawkesworth - 1823 - 302 pages
...human life, has not given us a more apt and lively comparison than the following: ' As the climbing a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.' Nor has one of our Grecian poets spoken so feelingly, so eloquently, or so elegantly of beauty, as... | |
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