 | George Griffin - 1850 - 370 pages
...ourselves. Such victory is more illustrious than was ever accomplished by "garments rolled in blood." . " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city."* It was an adage of lettered antiquity, that a good man struggling with adverse fortune, was a spectacle... | |
 | Robert Smith Candlish - 1850 - 584 pages
...YOUNG MEN. YOUTH THE SEASON FOR THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER, AND THE CULTIVATION OF ACTIVE HABITS.* " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." — PROV. xvi. 32. THE season of youth I take to be that period of the life of man, during which he... | |
 | Harriet Vaughan Cheney - 1850 - 508 pages
...climates.' ' But the climate does not justify the offence,' said Mr; Grey, 'and the scripture saith, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." ' 'I find I must justify myself at all events,' returned Calvert, ' though it is a foolish affair,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 462 pages
...ourselves. Such victory is more illustrious than was ever accomplished by ' garments rolled in blood.' ' He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' It was an adage of lettered antiquity, that a good man struggling with adverse fortune was a spectacle... | |
 | George Griffin - 1850 - 372 pages
...ourselves. Such victory is more illustrious than was ever accomplished by "garments rolled in blood." " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city."* It was an adage of lettered antiquity, that a good man struggling with adverse fortune, was a spectacle... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1850 - 552 pages
...by anger : and it is very foolish, to call a conquered man strong, when the Scripture Prov. saith, He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city. He calleth the conqueror of his anger better than the conqueror of a city. Thou hast therefore a great... | |
 | 1851 - 770 pages
...learning to command, by being commanded, and through obedience aspiring to be free. The Proverb says, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." A vast proportion of what the world calls greatness, has been in the line of the strong passions of... | |
 | Rev. Thomas N. Ralston - 1851 - 478 pages
...good, evil is present with us." The turbulence of evil passions is such, that the wise man has said, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.'^ The strength of this native tendency in man to evil is so great, that to counteract it, an effort is... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1852 - 196 pages
...cradle, than to have suffered his violence of temper to go unpunished, for ' wrath is cruel ; ' ' and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' From the day that Florence came to the school, Ralph, from an instinct of generosity, attached himself... | |
 | Amory Dwight Mayo - 1852 - 300 pages
...blesses you: "That ye may be sincere, and without offence, till the day of Christ." XL SELP-CONTKOL. " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." — PBOV. 16 : 32. CERTAINLY the author of the book of Proverbs deserves his title of " The Wise Man"... | |
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He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city, 
