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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... wisdom of poets and philosophers becomes the every - day wisdom of the populace , divested only of the redundancy of the original . Our own age will , doubt- less , contribute to the general stock , leaving behind viii INTRODUCTION .
... wisdom of poets and philosophers becomes the every - day wisdom of the populace , divested only of the redundancy of the original . Our own age will , doubt- less , contribute to the general stock , leaving behind viii INTRODUCTION .
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... leaving behind an aphoristic deposit , characteristic of the manners and genius of the times , and requiring the aid of future parœmiographers to collect and elucidate . In this view of the subject , proverbial literature be- comes a ...
... leaving behind an aphoristic deposit , characteristic of the manners and genius of the times , and requiring the aid of future parœmiographers to collect and elucidate . In this view of the subject , proverbial literature be- comes a ...
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... leaves a stain on the reputation . Advice to all , security for none . A cut purse is a sure trade , for he has ready money when his work is done . A deed done has an end . - Italian . This is one instance , among many in Italian ...
... leaves a stain on the reputation . Advice to all , security for none . A cut purse is a sure trade , for he has ready money when his work is done . A deed done has an end . - Italian . This is one instance , among many in Italian ...
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... He dances well to whom fortune pipes . — Ital . He that hath no money needeth no purse . He gets a great deal of credit who pays but a small debt.— Ital . He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance , when 16 SELECT PROVERBS.
... He dances well to whom fortune pipes . — Ital . He that hath no money needeth no purse . He gets a great deal of credit who pays but a small debt.— Ital . He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance , when 16 SELECT PROVERBS.
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... leaves certainty and sticks to chance , when fools pipe he may dance . He that chastiseth one , amendeth many . He that hath an ill name is half hanged . He is poor indeed , that can promise nothing . He that plants trees , loves others ...
... leaves certainty and sticks to chance , when fools pipe he may dance . He that chastiseth one , amendeth many . He that hath an ill name is half hanged . He is poor indeed , that can promise nothing . He that plants trees , loves others ...
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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.