Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, ExplainedW. Kent & Company, 1861 - 238 páginas |
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... England . The Italians say , " A woman complains , a woman's in woe , a woman is sick , when she likes to be so , " and that " A woman's tears are a fountain of craft . " 3 A woman's mind and winter wind change oft . " Women are ...
... England . The Italians say , " A woman complains , a woman's in woe , a woman is sick , when she likes to be so , " and that " A woman's tears are a fountain of craft . " 3 A woman's mind and winter wind change oft . " Women are ...
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... England . Scotland has it in this shape : - you Better woo o'er midden nor o'er moss . 1 And in Germany they give the same advice , and also assign a reason for it , saying , " Marry over the mixon , and will know who and what she is ...
... England . Scotland has it in this shape : - you Better woo o'er midden nor o'er moss . 1 And in Germany they give the same advice , and also assign a reason for it , saying , " Marry over the mixon , and will know who and what she is ...
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... England , corre- sponds to the French poche , as " pocket " does to the diminutive , pochette . Bouge and bougette are other forms of the same word ; and from these we get " budget , " which , curiously enough , has gone back from us to ...
... England , corre- sponds to the French poche , as " pocket " does to the diminutive , pochette . Bouge and bougette are other forms of the same word ; and from these we get " budget , " which , curiously enough , has gone back from us to ...
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... England reign , I'll be the vicar of Bray , sir . " " Such are men , now o ' days , " says Fuller , " who , though they cannot turn the wind , they turn their mills , and set them so that wheresoever it bloweth , their grist should ...
... England reign , I'll be the vicar of Bray , sir . " " Such are men , now o ' days , " says Fuller , " who , though they cannot turn the wind , they turn their mills , and set them so that wheresoever it bloweth , their grist should ...
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... England , and , as Trench remarks , could have had its birth only under such variable skies as ours . 1 Por la calle de despues se va á la casa de nunca 2 Ein Heute ist besser als zehn Morgen . Heute muss dem Morgen nichts borgen . Wenn ...
... England , and , as Trench remarks , could have had its birth only under such variable skies as ours . 1 Por la calle de despues se va á la casa de nunca 2 Ein Heute ist besser als zehn Morgen . Heute muss dem Morgen nichts borgen . Wenn ...
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Página 66 - 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 60 - 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 95 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
Página 75 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 60 - ... 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 183 - 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 117 - 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 190 - 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...
Página 16 - 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.