 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - Bible - 1850 - 552 pages
...by anger : and it is very foolish, to call a conquered man strong, when the Scripture Prov. saith, He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city. He calleth the conqueror of his anger better than the conqueror of a city. Thou hast therefore a great... | |
 | Harriet Vaughan Cheney - Massachusetts - 1850 - 508 pages
...climates.' ' But the climate does not justify the offence,' said Mr; Grey, 'and the scripture saith, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." ' 'I find I must justify myself at all events,' returned Calvert, ' though it is a foolish affair,... | |
 | Education - 1850 - 408 pages
...might, from the very countenance of the man, read in him high and noble qualifications for a teacher. " He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city." It appears that he has acted as one who regards the necessity of punishing a child, as a grave occasion... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - Unitarianism - 1850 - 358 pages
...there was no other to conquer. Here are chances for glory beyond all the dreams of ambition ; for " he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." By no brief and intermitted exertion is this triumph to be achieved. As well, on the material globe,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 462 pages
...ourselves. Such victory is more illustrious than was ever accomplished by ' garments rolled in blood.' ' He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' It was an adage of lettered antiquity, that a good man struggling with adverse fortune was a spectacle... | |
 | George Griffin - Apologetics - 1850 - 370 pages
...ourselves. Such victory is more illustrious than was ever accomplished by "garments rolled in blood." . " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city."* It was an adage of lettered antiquity, that a good man struggling with adverse fortune, was a spectacle... | |
 | Rev. Thomas N. Ralston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1851 - 478 pages
...good, evil is present with us." The turbulence of evil passions is such, that the wise man has said, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.'^ The strength of this native tendency in man to evil is so great, that to counteract it, an effort is... | |
 | Baccalaureate addresses - 1851 - 770 pages
...learning to command, by being commanded, and through obedience aspiring to be free. The Proverb says, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." A vast proportion of what the world calls greatness, has been in the line of the strong passions of... | |
 | Universalism - 1852 - 444 pages
...learning to command, by being commanded, and through obedience aspiring to be free. The Proverb says, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." A vast proportion of what the world calls greatness, has been in the line of the strong passions of... | |
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He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city, 
