 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 pages
...are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are 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... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1888 - 748 pages
...most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are 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... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...most apt to be obsequious » and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered 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... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pages
...most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are 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... | |
 | 1891 - 494 pages
...most apt to be obseijujpus and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are 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... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 pages
...most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are 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... | |
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... 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 men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline... 
