A Collection of the Proverbs of All Nations: Compared, Explained, and IllustratedWarren F. Draper, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... origin of the proverb to a hunting adventure of Francis I. , which is related by Blaise de Montluc . Having outriden all his followers , the king took shelter at nightfall in the cabin 1 Legami mani e piei , e gettami tra ' miei . 2 ...
... origin of the proverb to a hunting adventure of Francis I. , which is related by Blaise de Montluc . Having outriden all his followers , the king took shelter at nightfall in the cabin 1 Legami mani e piei , e gettami tra ' miei . 2 ...
Página 85
... origin have been given ; but that which we have here set down is confirmed by the fact that in Italy they have also another reading of the proverb , namely , Per un punto Martino perse la cappa ( " For a point Martin lost the cope ...
... origin have been given ; but that which we have here set down is confirmed by the fact that in Italy they have also another reading of the proverb , namely , Per un punto Martino perse la cappa ( " For a point Martin lost the cope ...
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... origin of this saying , which has become thor- oughly proverbial , is found in the following extract from a paper by its author , Benjamin Franklin : - " When I was a child of seven years old my friends on a holiday filled my pockets ...
... origin of this saying , which has become thor- oughly proverbial , is found in the following extract from a paper by its author , Benjamin Franklin : - " When I was a child of seven years old my friends on a holiday filled my pockets ...
Página 161
... origin , meaning that a lie has no stability : wrestle with it , and down it goes . The Italians and Spaniards say , " A lie has short legs ; " same sense , “ A liar is sooner caught than He trips up his own heels . Liars should have ...
... origin , meaning that a lie has no stability : wrestle with it , and down it goes . The Italians and Spaniards say , " A lie has short legs ; " same sense , “ A liar is sooner caught than He trips up his own heels . Liars should have ...
Página 175
... origin of this phrase . Can it be that it alludes to the practice of selling cats for hares ? A fraudulent vendor , while pressing a customer " to buy a cat in a bag " ( see p . 58 ) , might in an unguarded moment let him see enough to ...
... origin of this phrase . Can it be that it alludes to the practice of selling cats for hares ? A fraudulent vendor , while pressing a customer " to buy a cat in a bag " ( see p . 58 ) , might in an unguarded moment let him see enough to ...
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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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Pasajes populares
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...