 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1860 - 496 pages
...words, and on no occasion scold or fret ; it only makes bad scholars worse, and good ones indifferent. " He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city." Teachers should not let the scholars know, they have it in their power to vex them. Let them compass... | |
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - 1860 - 452 pages
...emotion not unallied to anger); I shall chiefly direct attention to this most important truth, namely, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Great in the estimation of the world (and more especially was it so in former ages, ere an ambitious... | |
 | No work - 1861 - 104 pages
...the apostle Paul says, ' Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us ;' nor the words of Solomon — ' HE THAT RULETH HIS SPIRIT IS BETTER THAN HE THAT TAKETH A CITY.' " * * Ephes. T. 2 i Prov. xvi. 32. 81 WOBKING FOR THE PRIZE; OB, THE FIRST DUTY FIRST. IF you look... | |
 | 1861 - 376 pages
...China, 1859. Saturday. 17 Solemn League and Covenant between England n ad Scotland, 1643. SABBATH. 18 HE THAT RULETH HIS SPIRIT IS BETTER THAN HE THAT TAKETH A CITY. Monday. 19 Henderson died at Edinburgh, 1646. [Prov. xvi. 32. Tuesday. 20 Austrians entered Wallachia,... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1861 - 476 pages
...Earth's most masterful and strongest monarchs have never grasped; I mean the empire of the heart. " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Czar Peter, certainly, was something superior to the vulgar herd of mere crowncircled fighting men... | |
 | Thomas Thomason Perowne - 1861 - 392 pages
...or give a reply. Wisdom, wisdom, Lord, for thy glory only, only ! Give me power to command myself. " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." "A fool hath no delight in understanding, hut that he may discover lumself." Make me abhor display,... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1925 - 344 pages
...not to get angry, or to scold or punish them for getting angry, or to have them read the Bible verse, "He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city," when there is someone in the house, especially someone they love and reverence very much, who once... | |
 | 606 pages
..."There's the hardest foe you have in the world to fight against, and that is yourself. Remember, ' He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.'" " Aunt Miriam, it is all very well in theory," moaned Alison, laying her head in her aunt's lap ; "... | |
 | United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - 1965 - 1296 pages
...of such enormous power must remember that "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." These common purposes — prosperity, justice, and peace — are the foundation of American unity.... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - 906 pages
...Empire " ; for while victorious in war, he remained a conquered captive to the inlluences of opium. "He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland. Edinburgh : James Gemmell. THE people who dwell on... | |
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