 | Henry Walford Bellairs - 1843 - 278 pages
...did so in that or about the year following. Now the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion ; and for her...; but too just cause to say with the holy prophet, ' Woe is me that I am constrained to have my habitation in the tents of Kedar."' When the old lady... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...or about the year following. Now the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought liim neither beauty nor portion; and for her conditions,...good man had no reason to 'rejoice in the wife of his yonth,' but too just cause to say with the holy prophet, 'Wo is me, that I am constrained to have my... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1850 - 678 pages
...following. Now the wife provided for him, was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty noc .portion; and for her conditions, they were too like...;' but too just cause to say with the holy prophet, ' woe is me that I am constrained to have my habitation in the tents of Kedar.' "This choice of Mr.... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1850 - 408 pages
...a mingled feeling of pity and amusement, honest Izaak Walton's account of Mistress Hooker: " That, for her conditions, they were too like that wife's...youth, but too just cause to say with the holy Prophet: ' woe is me that I am constrained to have my habitation in the tents of Kedar.' On the visit of his... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1851 - 392 pages
...a mingled feeling of pity and amusement, honest Izaak Walton's account of Mistress Hooker : " That, for her conditions, they were too like that wife's...youth, but too just cause to say with the holy Prophet : ' woe is me that I am constrained to have my habitation in the tents of Kedar.' On the visit of his... | |
 | Edward Herbert (1st baron.) - 1853 - 534 pages
...bishopric of London, He died in 1594. which ie by Solomon compared to a dripping house : so that the pood man had no reason to rejoice in the wife of his youth...; but too just cause to say with the holy prophet, " Woe is me, t'hat I am constrained to have my habitation in the teiits of Kedar !" This choice of... | |
 | George Jennings Davies - 1854 - 116 pages
...gave his landlady power to choose him a wife Now the wife provided for him, was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion; and for her...compared to a dripping house : so that the good man had but too much reason to complain with the holy Prophet, ' Wo is me, that I am constrained to have my... | |
 | 1857 - 632 pages
...so in that or about the year following. Now, the wife provided for him, was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion ; and for her...man had no reason to ' rejoice in the wife of his * 'Walton's Life, p. 22, Keble'a Ed. f This is uncertain. It is impossible to say, from the vagueness... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1864 - 438 pages
...so in that, or about the year following. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion : and for her...prophet, " Wo is me, that I am constrained to have my habi" tation in the tents of Kedar !" This choice of Mr. Hooker's — if it were his choice — may... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - 380 pages
...did so in that, or about the following year. Now the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion ; and for her...wife's which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house .... And by this marriage the good man was drawn from the tranquillity of his college — from that... | |
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Genesis) when he was sent to choose a wife for Isaac; for even so he trusted her to choose for him, promising upon a fair summons to return to London and accept of her choice; and he did so in that or about the year following. 
