 Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity...  The biblical museum - Page 129by James Comper Gray - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1882 - 448 pages
...burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful. Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves...and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. — Jeremy Taylor, 300 Love is like the measles, — all the worse when it comes late in life. —... | |
 | 1882 - 408 pages
...convert the earth into a howling wilderness. " But marriage," as the Rev. Jeremy Taylor truly says, " is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms,...and fills cities and churches and heaven itself." In view of these facts, men cannot, as intelligent beings upon whom the Creator has bestowed discriminating... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 pages
...burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful. " Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves...in singularity ; but marriage, like the useful bee, buikls a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labours and unites into societies and... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 pages
...but it is supported by all the strength of love and charity, wh'fch makes those burdens delightful. Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves...kingdoms, and fills cities and churches and heaven itself, and is that: state of good things to which God hath designed the present constitution of the world."... | |
 | Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 pages
...illustration Then, if he had read he must have forgotten what our Jeremy Taylor says on this subject, " Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves...and fills cities, and churches, and Heaven itself." Hereon, follows a figure of it as the useful bee, worthy of Shakspere. He concludes his sermon, comparing... | |
 | Jerome Paine Bates - 1886 - 882 pages
...burdens, but it is supported by all the strength of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful. Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves...and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of the apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and... | |
 | 1887 - 760 pages
...honorable but housekeeping a shrew. 87. Marriage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness. Byron. 88. Marriage is the mother of the world and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, churches and heaven itself. Jeremy Taylor. 89. Marriage with peace is the world's paradise, with strife... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...account of her life to a clod of wayward marl ? 3520 Shakespeare : Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1. Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves...and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. . . . Marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Bradshaw - 1891 - 404 pages
...Hermitage." 42. Writing to Gray, January 8, 1761, Mason says : — " ' Celibate life,' says Jeremy Taylor, ' like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a...But marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, gathers sweetness from every flower, labours and unites into societies and republics, etc.' If I survive... | |
 | 1892 - 812 pages
...burdens, bnt is supported by all the strengths of love and charity ; and these burdens are delightful. Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves...and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, hut sits alone, and... | |
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