 | Biography - 1784 - 552 pages
...that or the year following. Now, fays Walton, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion : and for her conditions, they were too like that wife's which Solomon compares to a drippinghoufe ; that is, fays Wood, me was " a clownifh filly woAth. Oxoo. «... | |
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1793 - 528 pages
...he did fo 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...Wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping houfe : fo that he had no reafon to rejoice in the Wife of his youth, but rather to fay with the holy... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - Authors, English - 1796 - 640 pages
...he did fo 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...wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping houfe: So that he had no reafon to " rejoice in the wife of his youth," but rather to fay with the... | |
 | 1828
...her choice. " Now," observes Walton drily, " the wife provided for him was her own daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion ; and for her...by Solomon compared to a dripping house : so that he had no reason to rejoice in the wife of his youth, but rather to say with the holy prophet, Woe... | |
 | 1802 - 442 pages
...for him to get a wite ; and, on her recommendation, he not long after married her daughter, Juan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion ; and for her...wife's which is, by Solomon, compared to a dripping Ao>(/e. By this marriage the good man was drawn from the tranquillity of his college, into the thorny... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1805 - 438 pages
...in that or about the year following. Now, 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 houfe : fo that the good man had no reafon to rejoice in the wife of his youth ; but too juft caufe... | |
 | Rev. John Walker - 1806 - 282 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...is by Solomon compared to a dripping house: so that he had no reason to rejoice in the wife of his youth, but rather to say with the holy prophet, woe... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...in that, or about the year following. Now, the wife she provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion, and for her...the good man had no reason to 'rejoice in the wife ef his youth ; but too just caus<j to say witli the holy prophet, " Woe is me, that I am constrained... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1810 - 556 pages
...that or the year following. Now, says Walton, the wife provided for him was her own daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion : And, for...her conditions, they were too like that wife's which Solomon compares to a dripping house ; that is, says Anthony Wood, she was « a clownish silly woman,... | |
 | Biography - 1814 - 538 pages
...that or the year following. Now, says Walton, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion ; and for her conditions, they were too like that wife's which Solomon compares to a dripping-house ; that is, says Wood, she was " a clownish Silly woman, and withal... | |
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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. 
