Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, ExplainedW. Kent & Company, 1861 - 238 páginas |
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... Spaniard , who sometimes speaks words of stately courtesy towards the female sex , advises you to " Beware of a bad woman , and put no trust in a good one . ' " The crab of the wood is sauce very good For the crab of the sea ; But the ...
... Spaniard , who sometimes speaks words of stately courtesy towards the female sex , advises you to " Beware of a bad woman , and put no trust in a good one . ' " The crab of the wood is sauce very good For the crab of the sea ; But the ...
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... 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 they tell this story in elucidation of the proverb . A ...
... 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 they tell this story in elucidation of the proverb . A ...
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... Spaniards exclaim , in lan- guage which reminds us of the custom of Dunmow , " The bacon of paradise for the married man that has not repented ! " 3 Better wed over the mixon than over the moor . The mixon is the heap of manure in the ...
... Spaniards exclaim , in lan- guage which reminds us of the custom of Dunmow , " The bacon of paradise for the married man that has not repented ! " 3 Better wed over the mixon than over the moor . The mixon is the heap of manure in the ...
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... Spaniards say he " loses his teeth , but not his inclinations . " " What is sucked in with the mother's milk runs out in the shroud ” ( Spanish ) . Horace's well - known line , - 66 13 " Naturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret 19 ...
... Spaniards say he " loses his teeth , but not his inclinations . " " What is sucked in with the mother's milk runs out in the shroud ” ( Spanish ) . Horace's well - known line , - 66 13 " Naturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret 19 ...
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... Spaniard , " is better than the fire of another's . " 3 The same feeling is ex- pressed with less energy , but far more tenderly , in a beautiful Italian proverb , which loses greatly by trans- lation : " Home , my own home , tiny ...
... Spaniard , " is better than the fire of another's . " 3 The same feeling is ex- pressed with less energy , but far more tenderly , in a beautiful Italian proverb , which loses greatly by trans- lation : " Home , my own home , tiny ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
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.