 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 pages
...so in that, or about the year following. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who influences of that age, his open, kind, susceptible nature, to say nothing of his " Woe is me, that I am constrained to have my habitation in the tents of Kedar! " This choice of Mr.... | |
 | Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 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...wife's, which is by Solomon compared to "a dripping house1:" so that the good man had no reason to " rejoice in the wife of his " youth," but too just... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1969 - 1278 pages
...him, was her Daughter Joan, who brought him neither Beauty nor Portion ; and for her Conditions, the)' were too like that Wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a Dripping House : So that he had no reason to rejoyce in the Wife of his Youth. . . And by this means the good man was drawn... | |
 | William Cave - 1842 - 304 pages
...London and accept of her choice; which he did. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion, and for her...; so that the good man had no reason to rejoice in tke wife of his youth ; but too just cause to say, with the holy prophet, Wo is me, that I am constrained... | |
 | 1862 - 746 pages
...conditions, they were too much like that wife's which is by Solomon compared to a perpetual dripping bouse ; so that the good man had no reason to rejoice in the...youth, but too just cause to say with the holy prophet, " Woe is me that I dwell in Kedar !"' The scholars marry in strange fashions. We have seen how Calvin... | |
 | John Walker - 1809 - 274 pages
...he did so in that or the year following. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion ; and for her...which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house: BO that he had no reason to rejoice in the wife of his youth, but rather to say with the holy prophet,... | |
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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. 
