 | 1794 - 450 pages
...And whoe'er takes it, takes a tartar." Vo. - 209. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, UtfONIDKI. u Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; " A bad, the bitterest curse of human life." VARIOUS CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, FROM S1MONIDES. THERE are no authors I am mor* pleased with, than those... | |
 | 1803 - 402 pages
...Tartar." X. No. CCIX. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 38. qs a/xE/>o> ov'fis ptymt noons' SlMONIDElOf earthly goods the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. THERE are no authors I am more pleased with, than those who shew human nature in a variety of views,... | |
 | 1814 - 258 pages
...frequently occur in the vicissitudes of human life, and perhaps some fastidious notions of my own, ha\e hitherto thwarted my desires, and kept me shut out...remembered that " Of earthly things the best is a (yood wife — " A bad, the bitterest curse of human life ;" and as I knew there were some unhappy... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 pages
...it, takes a tartar.' — 'S. N°209. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 171 L . — SIMONIDESr Of eart,hly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. THERE are no authors I am more pleased with than those who shew human nature in a variety of views,... | |
 | 1823 - 536 pages
...virtue by which it had been formed. SIMONIDES'S SATIRE ON WOMEN. (From the Spectator.} Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. There are no authors I am more pleased with than those who show human nature in a variety of views,... | |
 | 1824 - 292 pages
...whoe'er takes it, takes a Tartar.' T. No. 209. TUESDAY, OCT. 30. By Ad&ison. SIMOSIDES. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. THERE are no authors I am more pleased with than those who show human nature in a variety of views,... | |
 | Benjamin F. Powell - 1831 - 274 pages
...he, " the longer I meditate on the question, the more obscure it ^appears to me." " Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife,— A bad, the bitterest curse of human life." , * STILPO. 1-. The highest felicity, or chief good, consists in freeing our minds from the dominion... | |
 | Benjamin F. Powell - 1831 - 276 pages
...he, " the longer I meditate on the question, the more obscure it appears to me." " Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife, — A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.'' STILPO. 1. The highest felicity, or chief good, consists in freeing our minds from the dominion of... | |
 | 1831 - 616 pages
...more truly happy that hath no need of his friends." CURSORY REMARKS ON A WIFE. " Of earthly jrooda, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of buman life." THERE is reason to rejoice that those earlyages of society are past when a man purchased... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...her, And whoe'er takes it, takes a tartar.' T. No. 209.] Tuesday, October 30, 1711. Of earthly goods, ondon. ' The greatest beau at our next liuman life. THERE are no authors I am more pleased with than those who show human nature in variety... | |
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Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; • A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. 
