Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated with Notes and Comments. To which is Added a Summary of Ancient Pastimes, Holidays, and Customs; with an Analysis of the Wisdom of the Ancients, and of the Fathers of the Church. The Whole Arranged on a New Plan ...John Wade Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - 215페이지 |
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... bear in mind , our's is only a SELECTION to have given the entire proverbs of any people , would have far exceeded the limits of the present plan , and consequently I have only gleaned from each nation what seemed worthy of modern taste ...
... bear in mind , our's is only a SELECTION to have given the entire proverbs of any people , would have far exceeded the limits of the present plan , and consequently I have only gleaned from each nation what seemed worthy of modern taste ...
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... bear testimony of their value , from experience - from the benefit I have derived , while collecting the materials of this work— and I freely confess , that many things which I had in- cautiously treasured up , as the original thoughts ...
... bear testimony of their value , from experience - from the benefit I have derived , while collecting the materials of this work— and I freely confess , that many things which I had in- cautiously treasured up , as the original thoughts ...
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... bear it , or have the least means of defending themselves . The devil laughs when the hungry man gives to him with a belly full . - Spanish . The better day , the better deed . The Jews spend at Easter , the Moors at marriages , and the ...
... bear it , or have the least means of defending themselves . The devil laughs when the hungry man gives to him with a belly full . - Spanish . The better day , the better deed . The Jews spend at Easter , the Moors at marriages , and the ...
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... bear up his tail . - Gaelic . Wolves may lose their teeth but not their nature . Words are but wind , but seeing is believing . • Write with the learned , but speak with the vulgar . Words from the mouth only die in the ears , 52 SELECT ...
... bear up his tail . - Gaelic . Wolves may lose their teeth but not their nature . Words are but wind , but seeing is believing . • Write with the learned , but speak with the vulgar . Words from the mouth only die in the ears , 52 SELECT ...
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... bear , than early blossom and blast . Better go to heaven in rags , than to hell in embroidery . Bear and forbear is good philosophy . Be a father to virtue , but father - in - law to vice . Better ten guilty escape than one innocent ...
... bear , than early blossom and blast . Better go to heaven in rags , than to hell in embroidery . Bear and forbear is good philosophy . Be a father to virtue , but father - in - law to vice . Better ten guilty escape than one innocent ...
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157 페이지 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
190 페이지 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
156 페이지 - He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
177 페이지 - Do smoak all about, The cooks are providing For dinner, no doubt; But those on whose tables No victuals appear, O may they keep Lent All the rest of the year ! With holly and ivy So green and so gay ; We deck up our houses As fresh as the day, With bays and rosemary, And laurel compleat, And every one now Is a king in conceit.
170 페이지 - Burning the nuts is a famous charm. They name the lad and lass to each particular nut, as they lay them in the fire, and accordingly as they burn quietly together, or start from beside one another, the course and issue of the courtship will be.
89 페이지 - For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
166 페이지 - The quintain thus fashioned was placed upon a pivot, and so contrived as to move round with facility. In running at this figure it was necessary for the horseman to direct his lance with great adroitness, and make his stroke upon the forehead between the eyes or upon the nose ; for if he struck wide of those parts...
172 페이지 - THE passing bell was anciently rung for two purposes ; one, to bespeak the prayers of all good Christians for a soul just departing; the other, to drive away the evil spirits who stood at the bed's foot and about the house, ready to seize their prey, or at least to molest and terrify the soul in its passage...
159 페이지 - Business; but to these we must add Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly successful. A Man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
159 페이지 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.