| 1822 - 602 σελίδες
...supper m full array for the onset.' « " Come," said I, one evening, when my brother's fretfulness oni the subject had exceeded the usual bounds, " you love...boast of having done neither the one nor the other." ' The next morning, he did not appear at breakfast: all alarm, I • hastened to his chamber, and tenderly... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 416 σελίδες
...whose deceitful hearts /-^ practise innumerable impositions, unsuspected by their pos- .\ sessors. If " he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a city," the rigid discipline and government, to which Mr. Payson subjected the passions of the mind, and the... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1839 - 510 σελίδες
...whose deceitful hearts practice innumerable imposition;, 2«*suspected by their possessors MP 7* If " he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a city," the rigid discipline and government to which Mr. Payson subjected the passions of the mind and the... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 460 σελίδες
...men, whose deceitful hearts practice innumerable impositions, unsuspected by their possessors. If " he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a. city," the rigid discipline and government, to which Mr. Payson subjected the passions of the mind, and the... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 σελίδες
...men, whose deceitful hearts practise innumerable impoitions, unsuspected by their possessors. If " he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a city," the rigid discipline and government to which Mr. Payson subjected the passions of the mind and the... | |
| Scotland Church of gen. assembly - 1841 - 386 σελίδες
...of the oppressor is laid on him, I ought to break that rod. Reverend Sir, let me conclude by saying, That he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a city — and that to retreat will gain you more sure and lasting honour in the eyes of all intelligent men... | |
| 1848 - 1390 σελίδες
...principles, he soars so far above our ordinary standards of greatness, as to dwarf himself by the distance. He •who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a city, but he who taketh a city .VM.HI.V greater than he who ruleth his spirit. We, in our littleness, estimate... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1848 - 366 σελίδες
...principles he soars so far above our ordinary standards of greatness as to dwarf himself by the distance. He who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a city, but he who taketh a city seems greater than he who ruleth his spirit. We in our littleness estimate... | |
| 1848 - 722 σελίδες
...he soars so far above our ordinary standards of greatness, as to dwarf himself by the distance. Ile who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a city, but he who taketh a city seems greater than he who ruleth his spirit. We, in our littleness, estimate... | |
| Selina Bunbury - 1856 - 342 σελίδες
...happiness. And if we are to begin our mental, our spiritual school-time, let it be, dearest, by recollecting that he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a city." . " There," I cried, lifting up my head, " it is over now, I will be weak no longer." I sat down on... | |
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