| Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1793 - 528 pages
...fummons to return to London, and accept of her choice ; and he did fo in that or the year following. Now, the Wife provided for him, was her daughter Joan,...conditions, they were too like that Wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping houfe : fo that he had no reafon to rejoice in the Wife of his... | |
| Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - Authors, English - 1796 - 640 pages
...fummons to return to London, and accept of her choice ; and he did fo in that or the year following. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who...conditions, they were too like that wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping houfe: So that he had no reafon to " rejoice in the wife of his... | |
| 1828
...London, and accept of her choice. " Now," observes Walton drily, " the wife provided for him was her own daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor...conditions, they were too like that wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house : so that he had no reason to rejoice in the wife of his... | |
| 1802 - 442 pages
...better 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 conditions, they were too like that wife's which is, by Solomon, compared to a dripping Ao>(/e. By this marriage the good man was drawn from the tranquillity... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1805 - 438 pages
...to London, and accept of her choice ; and he did fo in that or about the year following. Now, Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who...conditions, they were too like that wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping houfe : fo that the good man had no reafon to rejoice in the wife... | |
| Rev. John Walker - 1806 - 282 pages
...summons to return to London, and accept of her choice, and he did so in that or the year following. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who...conditions, they were too like that wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house: so that he had no reason to rejoice in the wife of his... | |
| 1864 - 868 pages
...London and accept of her choice; and he did so, in that, or about the year following. Now, the wife she provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought...her conditions, they were too like that wife's which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house ; so that the good man had no reason to 'rejoice in the... | |
| Erasmus Middleton - 1810 - 556 pages
...which he did in that or the year following. Now, says Walton, the wife provided for him was her own daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor...were too like that wife's which Solomon compares to a dripping house ; that is, says Anthony Wood, she was « a clownish silly woman, and withal a « mere... | |
| Christian biography - 1810 - 594 pages
...so in that or about the year following. Now the wife provided for him, was her daughter Joan, M'ho brought him neither beauty nor portion ; and for her conditions, they were too like that wife's which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house ; so that the good man had no reason to rejoice in the wife... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...to return to London, and accept of her choice, which he did in that or the year following. Now, says Walton, the wife provided for him was her daughter...were too like that wife's which Solomon compares to a dr.pping-house ; that is, says Wood, she was " a clownish s:iiy woman, and withal a mere Xantippe."... | |
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