A Collection of the Proverbs of All Nations: Compared, Explained, and IllustratedWarren F. Draper, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... once in seven years , " say the Germans ; and the Spaniards hold that " A woman's counsel is no great thing , but he who does not take it is a fool . " In Servia they say , " It is sometimes right even to obey a sensible wife ; " and ...
... once in seven years , " say the Germans ; and the Spaniards hold that " A woman's counsel is no great thing , but he who does not take it is a fool . " In Servia they say , " It is sometimes right even to obey a sensible wife ; " and ...
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... once . " The gude or ill hap o ' a gude or ill life Is the gude or ill choice o ' a gude or ill wife . - Scotch . There is a Spanish rhyme much to the same effect : " Him that has a good wife no evil in life that may not be borne , can ...
... once . " The gude or ill hap o ' a gude or ill life Is the gude or ill choice o ' a gude or ill wife . - Scotch . There is a Spanish rhyme much to the same effect : " Him that has a good wife no evil in life that may not be borne , can ...
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... once been at enmity . " Patched - up friendship seldom becomes whole again " ( German ) .2 " Broken friendship may be soldered , but never made sound " ( Spanish ) .3 " A recon- ciled friend , a double foe " ( Spanish ) . " Beware of a ...
... once been at enmity . " Patched - up friendship seldom becomes whole again " ( German ) .2 " Broken friendship may be soldered , but never made sound " ( Spanish ) .3 " A recon- ciled friend , a double foe " ( Spanish ) . " Beware of a ...
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... once , " says Publius Syrus.3 " After losing , one loses roundly , " say the French . The Spaniards have three remarkable proverbs to express the same conviction : " Whither goest thou , Misfortune ? To where there is more . " 1 Il ...
... once , " says Publius Syrus.3 " After losing , one loses roundly , " say the French . The Spaniards have three remarkable proverbs to express the same conviction : " Whither goest thou , Misfortune ? To where there is more . " 1 Il ...
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... once who feels it , but twice who fears it before it comes . " When bale is highest , boot is nighest . " Bale " is obsolete as a substantive , but retains a place in current English as the root of the adjective " baleful . " The ...
... once who feels it , but twice who fears it before it comes . " When bale is highest , boot is nighest . " Bale " is obsolete as a substantive , but retains a place in current English as the root of the adjective " baleful . " The ...
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A Collection of the Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and ... Walter Keating Kelly Sin vista previa disponible - 1972 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 63 - tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.
Página 92 - This, however, was afterwards of use to me, the impression continuing on my mind; so that often when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing, I said to myself, Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
Página 57 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars...
Página 135 - He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
Página 57 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Página 14 - Marriage is a desperate thing. The Frogs in JEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some Water, but they would not leap into the Well, because they could not get out again.
Página 209 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Página 114 - said he ; " you that have lived sae lang in Zetland, to risk the saving of a drowning man ? Wot ye not, if you bring him to life again, he will be sure to do you some capital injury ? * — Come, Master Mordaunt, bear a hand to what's mair to the purpose.
Página 216 - Well then, quoth Master More, how say you in this matter ? What think ye to be the cause of these shelves and flats that stop up Sandwich haven ? Forsooth, Sir, quoth he, I am an old man ; I think that Tenterton steeple is the cause of Goodwin sands. For I am an old man, Sir...