 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 536 pages
...and glory be to Christ for ever ! " He gave the signal and died. He was indeed a valiant captain. " He that ruleth his spirit is better than " he that taketh a city." Other martyrs now followed to the scaffold these three men, — the most illustrious of nobles, the... | |
 | John Leifchild - 1849 - 276 pages
...softens it with as much of kindness and liberality as the circumstances of the case rendered proper. " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." The same disposition is manifested by him in resigning to Lot, his nephew, at his request, the best... | |
 | Elizabeth Wilson - 1849 - 390 pages
...thine own right hand can save thee." Man has enough to do to rule himself, and more than enough, and " he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Both man and woman were created in the image of God's moral perfections, with rational and immortal... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1849 - 230 pages
...self-government will be enumerated. 1. It justly secures the admiration and respect of others. The Bible says, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." 2. It promotes success in the business of life. A person who controls himself can be implicitly relied... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 438 pages
...ourselves. Such victory is more illustrious than was ever accomplished by ' garments rolled in blood.' ' lie 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... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...for preaching the Gospel. Though gifted with extraordinary military genius he never learned that " he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Proverbs 16: 32. His death, which occurred B. c. 323, is believed to have been principally caused by... | |
 | Robert Smith Candlish - 1850 - 584 pages
...YOUNG MEN. YOUTH THE SEASON FOR THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER, AND THE CULTIVATION OF ACTIVE HABITS.* " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." — PROV. xvi. 32. THE season of youth I take to be that period of the life of man, during which he... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - 1850 - 426 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,... | |
 | George Griffin - 1850 - 372 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... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 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... | |
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He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city, 
