 | Marianne Parrott - 1860 - 144 pages
...you ! " was echoed on every side. " Brave boy ! noble boy ! " seemed his mother's voice to say : " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." But though these words were spoken to his heart, they were very different ones that sounded in his... | |
 | 1861 - 376 pages
...China, 1859. Saturday. 17 Solemn League and Covenant between England n ad Scotland, 1643. SABBATH. 18 HE THAT RULETH HIS SPIRIT IS BETTER THAN HE THAT TAKETH A CITY. Monday. 19 Henderson died at Edinburgh, 1646. [Prov. xvi. 32. Tuesday. 20 Austrians entered Wallachia,... | |
 | No work - 1861 - 104 pages
...the apostle Paul says, ' Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us ;' nor the words of Solomon — ' HE THAT RULETH HIS SPIRIT IS BETTER THAN HE THAT TAKETH A CITY.' " * * Ephes. T. 2 i Prov. xvi. 32. 81 WOBKING FOR THE PRIZE; OB, THE FIRST DUTY FIRST. IF you look... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1861 - 476 pages
...Earth's most masterful and strongest monarchs have never grasped; I mean the empire of the heart. " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Czar Peter, certainly, was something superior to the vulgar herd of mere crowncircled fighting men... | |
 | Thomas Thomason Perowne - Christian biography - 1861 - 392 pages
...or give a reply. Wisdom, wisdom, Lord, for thy glory only, only ! Give me power to command myself. " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." "A fool hath no delight in understanding, hut that he may discover lumself." Make me abhor display,... | |
 | Marion Eliza Weir - 1861 - 300 pages
...thoughtfully, "I am not sure that those are always the greatest whom the world calls great. The Bible says, 'He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a DE. BAENAED DISCOVERS TOll's GENIUS. 221 city.' I often think of a bit in a hymn Miss Harcourt taught... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - Kindergarten - 1925 - 344 pages
...not to get angry, or to scold or punish them for getting angry, or to have them read the Bible verse, "He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city," when there is someone in the house, especially someone they love and reverence very much, who once... | |
 | 606 pages
..."There's the hardest foe you have in the world to fight against, and that is yourself. Remember, ' He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.'" " Aunt Miriam, it is all very well in theory," moaned Alison, laying her head in her aunt's lap ; "... | |
 | United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - Presidents - 1965 - 1296 pages
...of such enormous power must remember that "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." These common purposes — prosperity, justice, and peace — are the foundation of American unity.... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1909 - 222 pages
...and he might well regard it as a triumph; but Dr. Spofford 's real triumph was yet to come, for as "he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city" so now he was called upon to perform a great act of self-sacrifice and devotion to duty. That he accomplished... | |
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He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city, 
