 I am more pleased with, than those who show human nature in a variety of views, and describe the several ages of the world in their different manners. A reader cannot be more rationally entertained than by comparing the virtues and vices of his own times...  The British Essayists: Spectator - Strana 65úprava: - 1823Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - Počet stránok 752
...money to lend, If his wife be owt, if his wife be owt. Tke Gipsy' ! Rhyme (N. Sf Q,-, Feb. 10, 1866). Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. Simonides. •WILFUL1TESS. Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed ; For what I will, I will— and there's... | |
 | 1869 - Počet stránok 534
...SIMONIDES. — "Man gains, acquires, no possession better than a good wife, nor worse than a bad one:" "Of earthly goods the best is a good wife: A bad, the bitterest curse of human life." ear' o%?tfjpov, OVK eg Zyv TOV hafiov&' tig fiovTiErai' a/l/l sveort ri A.ya'&ov GTT' avrrjg, Traideg'... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - Počet stránok 610
...ourselves what is so. L. No. 209. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30. s ouSe ' ueu/op, oi>5e piyiov KaKrjs. SIMONIDES. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; ' A bad,...authors I am more pleased with, than those who shew hnman nature in a variety of views, and describe the several ages of the world in their different manners.... | |
 | John Matheson - 1870 - Počet stránok 594
...evolutions with which we had been so curiously entertained. CHAPTER XXXVI. MARRIAGE AND FEMALE EDUCATION. Of earthly goods the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life SIMONIDES. Shalt show us how divine a thing A Woman may be made.— WORDSWORTH. ,UESTIONS of human... | |
 | Emily Eliza Jours McAlpine - 1871 - Počet stránok 336
...will be scratch No. 1," said the amiable tiger, Abettor. CHAPTER XXXVIII. PROPOSAL. " Of earthly good the best is a good wife, A bad, the bitterest curse of human life." MRS. PRUDENCE PODINGER was a shrewd old woman; she had seen a great deal of the world, she said, and... | |
 | Emily Eliza Jours McAlpine - 1871 - Počet stránok 338
...scratch No. 1," said the amiable tiger, Abettor. CHAPTER XXXVIII. PROPOSAL. " Of earthly good the beat is a good wife, A bad, the bitterest curse of human life." MRS. PRUDENCE PODINQER was a shrewd old woman ; she had seen a great deal of the world, she said, and... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1875 - Počet stránok 332
....4 guardian angel o'er his life presiding. Doubling his pleasures, and his cares diriding. ROGERS. Of earthly goods, the best is a good Wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. 1. IT may be well — before I enter on the subjects of menstruation, of pregnancy, of labour, and... | |
 | 1875 - Počet stránok 540
...SlHONIDES. — "Man gains, acquires, no possession better than a good wife, nor worse than a bad one:" "Of earthly goods the best is a good wife: A bad, the bitterest curse of human life." o^ureAjyf CUT" ox^-tpov, OVK eg Z-yv TOV hafiov-S' a; povAcrat' aXk eveari TI Ayafiov air" avTijs,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - Počet stránok 768
...account of this art than all the volumes that were ever written upon it. ADDISON : Tatter, No. 108. There are no authors I am more pleased with than those who show human nature in a variety of views, and describe the several ages of the world in their different... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - Počet stránok 766
...Better no house or home possess, Than have a bad wife too ! Oriental, tr, by WR Alger. Of earthly good, Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly raiment for the lepe 3498. WIFE. A good THE waiting angel, patient wife, All through the battle at our side, That smiled... | |
| |
