 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...single life, they descend into the valleys of marriage to refresh their troubles, and there they eiiter into fetters, and are bound to sorrow by the cords of a man's or woman's peevishness. As the Indian women enter into folly for the price of an elephant, and think their crime warrantable,... | |
 | Henry Kaye Bonney - 1815 - 422 pages
...many " inconveniences upon the mountains of single " life, they descend into the valleys of mar" riage to refresh their troubles, and there " they enter...by the cords of a man's or woman's " peevishness." " Every little thing can " blast an infant blossom ; and the breath of " the south can shake the little... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 480 pages
...expresses it,) many inconveniencies upon the mountains of a single life to descend into the vallies of marriage to refresh their troubles ; and there they...fetters, and are bound to sorrow by the cords of a woman's peevishness ; and the worst of the evil is, they have to thank their own folly." But may we... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...men, finding many inconveniences upon the mountains of single life, they descend into the valleys of marriage to refresh their troubles, and there they...sorrow, by the cords of a man's or woman's peevishness. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom ; and the breath of the south can shake the little rings... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1826 - 420 pages
...men, finding many inconveniences upon the mountains of single life, they descend into the valleys of marriage to refresh their troubles, and there they...sorrow by the cords of a man's or woman's peevishness. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom ; and the breath of the south can shake the little rings... | |
 | John Angell James - 1827 - 186 pages
...persons, finding many inconveniences upon the mountains of single life, they descend into the valleys of marriage to refresh their troubles, and there they...and are bound to sorrow by the cords of a man's or a woman's peevishness ; and the worst of the evil is, that they have to thank their own follies, for... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1828 - 630 pages
...men, finding many inconveniences upon the mountains of single life, they descend into the valleys of marriage to refresh their troubles, and there they...thank their own follies; for they fell into the snare bv entering an improper way : Christ and the church were no ingredients in their choice: but as the... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1834 - 658 pages
...men, finding many inconveniences upon the mountains of single life, they descend into the valleys of marriage to refresh their troubles, and there they...bound to sorrow by the cords of a man's or woman's peevish • ness : and the worst of the evil is, they are to thank their own follies ; for they fell... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1834 - 590 pages
...mountains of a single life, descend into the valley of marriage to refresh their troubles, and there enter into fetters, and are bound to sorrow by the cords of a man's peevishness ; and the worst of the evil is, they are to thank their own follies ; for they fell into... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1836 - 624 pages
...mountains of single life, they descend into the valleys of 1 X\iyvai voTipolf vafiaaiv w/cu yovv. , 2 Brunck. An. ii. 135. marriage to refresh their troubles,...cords of a man's or woman's peevishness : and the worstof the evil is, they are to thank their own follies; for they fell into the snare by entering... | |
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... but there the frost overtook them, and bound them fast in ice, till the young herdsmen took them in their stranger snare. It is the unhappy chance of many men, finding many inconveniences upon the mountains of single life, they descend into the valleys... 
