| Abel Stevens - Methodism - 1859 - 518 pages
...religion and the poor. He now found a wife who verified the wise man's declaration that "whoso fmdeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord," and whose example, beautiful as his own with holiness, has been a blessing to the women of Methodism... | |
| John Saunders Holt - American fiction - 1869 - 424 pages
...even copied on one of its blank pages, evidently for convenient reference, the texts from Proverbs : "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord," and "A prudent wife is from the- Lord." He wished to make Susan his wife, and where could a more prudent... | |
| John Saunders Holt - American fiction - 1869 - 410 pages
...even copied on one of its blank pages, evidently for convenient reference, the texts from Proverbs : " Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord," and "A prudent wife is from the Lord." He wished to make Susan his wife, and where could a more prudent... | |
| Marguerite Spoerlin - Alsace (France) - 1869 - 488 pages
...with God's blessing; my good wishes thou hast beforehand. God's holy word says (Prov. xviii. 22), " Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord." ' During this appeal to him, Frank stood immovable, stiff as a post, his arms hanging straight down;... | |
| Sarah B. Perry - Bible - 1871 - 328 pages
...Death and life are in the power of the tongue : and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord. The poor useth entreaties ; but the rich answereth roughly. A man that hath friends must show himself... | |
| Charles Simmons - 1872 - 542 pages
...LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. Pr. 18: 22 Whoso flndeth a wife, findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the LORD. Ep. 5: 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife,... | |
| Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - Reformation - 1876 - 556 pages
...edition of 1575, p. 84. the Bible, that a wise woman is a crown to her husband, and that whoso Jindeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtaineth favor of the Lord. Catherine von Bora and Idelette de Bare, the wives of the two great reformers, eminent women, whose... | |
| Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - Reformation - 1877 - 564 pages
...llsee animi magnitude,' etc. — Ibid. the Bible, that a wise woman is a crown to her husband, and that whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtaineth favor of the Lord. Catherine von Bora and Idelette de Bare, the wives of the two great reformers, eminent women, whose... | |
| Samuel Ives Curtiss - Bible - 1879 - 140 pages
...for a year that he may cheer his wife? (Dent, xxi v. 5.) How is it that we read, Prov. xviii. 22 : " Whoso findeth a wife, findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord?" and at the very close of the book, how is it that we find that eulogy on a virtuous woman, which, as... | |
| James White, Ellen Gould Harmon White - Maine - 1880 - 432 pages
...so united that both should be given in one. Marriage marks an important era in the lives of men. " Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord," is the language of wisdom. Prov. 18 : 22. This expression taken alone may be understood to convey the... | |
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