 | 1611 - 360 pagine
...to do judgment. The way of man is froward and strange: But as for the pure, his work is right. CsO It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, Than with a brawling woman in a wide house. The soul of the wicked desireth evil : His neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. When the scorner... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 pagine
...where he lodged all night.; and to this circumstance probably Solomon alludes, when he cays, •'' it is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." The fruit tree called the Damascene, and the flower calU ted the damask roue, were introduced into... | |
 | James Fordyce - 1809 - 332 pagine
...and clamour, " and evil speaking, and all malice !" " it is " better, says Solomon, to dwell in the corner of " the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a " wide house ;" he might have added, or in a magnificent palace. In so doing, he would have probably spoken from... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pagine
...away." — " It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman." — " It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." To " the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price," and possesses... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pagine
...do judgment. 8 The way of man is froward and strange : but as for the pure, his work is right. 9 // is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, 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. 1 1 When the... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pagine
...maketh ashamed is rottenness in his bones g ; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping h. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house '. Better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman k. SECT. 6. — To be... | |
 | 1819 - 948 pagine
...<£• man i» froward and Strange : but as for the pure, his work u right. 9 It is better to vcll I put the earling upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands. 48 And 10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findelh no favour in his eyes. 11 When the scorner... | |
 | George Holden - 1819 - 538 pagine
...circumstances then, probably, it is that Solomon alludes, when he says, ' // it better to dwell in the corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house,' Prov. xxi. 9, xxv. 24. A corner covered with boughs or rushes, and made into a little arbour, in which... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 pagine
...tongue," or he will find to his sorrow, if he marry a person of this stamp, " it is better to dwell in the corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." Those whom I would distinguish by the name of CAPRICORNUS, are a very considerate class of creatures.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 506 pagine
...addicted to, doth make some men's lives a continual burden to them. Mark what the Scripture saith ; " It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop,...than with a brawling woman in a wide house. — It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. — A continual dropping... | |
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. 
