 | Walter Aimwell, William Simonds - 1858 - 330 страници
...try to meet such a man with his own weapons. The best way is to keep silence, or speak mildly. < He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city/ as the Bible says. If you had been impudent to Mr. Walker, it would have made him more furious, and... | |
 | Sunday school assoc - 1858 - 206 страници
...; but, alas ! he was governed by a bad temper, and too often forgot the words of the wise man, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city;" and in consequence of his unrestrained temper, the meetings for the chapel business were the constant... | |
 | Nathaniel William Taylor - 1859 - 498 страници
...forbidden good ; if governed, controlled, denied by the will, the nobler the act of obedience. "He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." " The trial of your faith is precious." " Blessed is the man that endureth temptation." (5.) Nor does... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - 1859 - 448 страници
...sun between the clouds in a day of rain. He had illustrated the proverb before it was written, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." His virtue had been assailed from day to day by all that was fascinating in the siren song of sensuality,... | |
 | 1859 - 830 страници
...calls him the great man in whom struggles and victories are fitly personated. The Bible says, " he that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city." B. God is styled the God of battles. War has ever been God's instrumentality for reforming the world,... | |
 | Greek - 1859 - 568 страници
...in taking the strongest, the most strongly fortified, cities." Compare the Hebrew maxim : — " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Prov. xvi. 32, and see " Latins regnes" $rc, Fortior et potentior est dispositio legis quain hominis.... | |
 | 1859 - 914 страници
...out by more illustrious triumphs than ever led pagan conqueror to the Capitol of Rome. For, truly, he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city. In Switzerland the young Prince enjoyed peculiar facilities for cultivating his taste for liberty,... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1859 - 354 страници
...try to meet such a man with his own weapons. The best way is to keep silence, or speak mildly. ' He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city,' as the Bible say.-;. If you had been impudent to Mr. "Walker, it would have made him more furious,... | |
 | Hadley (Mass.), Frederic Dan Huntington - 1859 - 114 страници
...butcher's turn to be angry. "Dr. ," said he, " ain't you a pretty fellow to preach all day yesterday, ' he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city,' — and now you are as mad as you can live, because you have got to pay an honest bill." The Doctor... | |
 | Madeline Leslie - 1859 - 268 страници
...happy, now, my dear? " " No, mamma." " Then try to put away all your bad feelings. The Bible says, ' He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' " This was a new idea to Harry, and, making a great effort, he restrained his anger, and looked up... | |
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He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city, 
