| Our own country - 1878 - 714 páginas
...and killed. He married early, probably before he was nineteen, the young couple beginning the world "as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt them both ;" but he counted it always among his mercies that he was led " to... | |
| Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 páginas
...he had saved nothing of his earnings, and the bride was equally destitute. " We came together аз poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt us both ; yet this she had for her part, The Plain, Man's PutliKuij to Heiu'en,... | |
| Gibson Craig - 1879 - 320 páginas
...as mercy that the father and mother were "counted godly." "This woman and I," he writes. " though we came together as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt us both, yet this she had for her part " — the " Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven"... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...mercy was to light upon a wife whose father and mother were counted godly ; this woman and I, though we came together as poor as poor might be — not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt ns both— yet this she had for her part, • The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven,'... | |
| Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 páginas
...from the wars, Bunyan married. " I lighted on a wife." he says, " whose father was counted godly. We 9 cI 1 $ S6 - ȼ ̋o= \ @ <f = C { Y O[} o N a dish or a spoon between us. But she had for her portion two books, ' The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1880 - 212 páginas
...belonged, a very successful man. ' I lighted on a wife,' he says, ' whose father was counted godly. We came together as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or a spoon between us. But she had for her portion two books, " The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven,"... | |
| John Bunyan - 1881 - 428 páginas
...and holy life both in word and deed. There was no imprudence in this early marriage, though they ' came together as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt them both ;' for Bunyan had a trade to which he could trust, and the young... | |
| JOHN SWANN WITHINGTON - 1881 - 788 páginas
...49; Buffon, 55 ; Old Parr (last time), 120. Bunyan's wife had no dowry. "We came together," says he, "as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt us." An unpromising beginning in a worldly sense ; but the wife was the daughter... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 páginas
...upon a wife whoc-e father and mother were counter godly ; Mire womrm and I, though we came together an poor as poor might be — not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt us both — yet this she hod for her part, •The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven,'... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 420 páginas
..."was to light upon a wife whose father and mother were accounted godly. This woman and I, though we came together as poor as poor might be (not having so much household stuff as a dish or a spoon betwixt us both), yet she had for her part ' The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven' and... | |
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