Proverbs of All NationsW. Kent & Company, 1861 - 238 páginas |
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... expression of the widest experience in the choicest language , can be thoroughly misapplied . It cannot embrace the whole of the subject , and apply in all cases like a mathematical formula . Its wisdom lies in the ear of the hearer ...
... expression of the widest experience in the choicest language , can be thoroughly misapplied . It cannot embrace the whole of the subject , and apply in all cases like a mathematical formula . Its wisdom lies in the ear of the hearer ...
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... expressed in different times and by many distinct races of men ; to trace the unity in variety which pervades the oldest and most universal monu- ments of opinion and sentiment among mankind ; and to verify for himself the truth of Lord ...
... expressed in different times and by many distinct races of men ; to trace the unity in variety which pervades the oldest and most universal monu- ments of opinion and sentiment among mankind ; and to verify for himself the truth of Lord ...
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... expressed in the language of their chivalric forefathers , " Love subdues all but the ruffian's heart . " 9 Marry in haste and repent at leisure . This proverb probably came to us from Italy ; 10 out , alas ! it happens too often in all ...
... expressed in the language of their chivalric forefathers , " Love subdues all but the ruffian's heart . " 9 Marry in haste and repent at leisure . This proverb probably came to us from Italy ; 10 out , alas ! it happens too often in all ...
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... expressed in different forms in other lan- guages , e.g. , " Your wife and your nag get from a neighbour " ( Italian ) . " " He that goes far to marry goes to be deceived or to deceive " ( Spanish ) .3 The politic Lord Burleigh seems to ...
... expressed in different forms in other lan- guages , e.g. , " Your wife and your nag get from a neighbour " ( Italian ) . " " He that goes far to marry goes to be deceived or to deceive " ( Spanish ) .3 The politic Lord Burleigh seems to ...
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... expressed : " Mother , what sort of a thing is marriage ? ' ' Daughter , it is spinning , bearing children , and weeping . ' 9996 1 En mariage trompe qui peut . Chi perde la moglie e un quattrino , ha gran perdita del quattrino . 3 ...
... expressed : " Mother , what sort of a thing is marriage ? ' ' Daughter , it is spinning , bearing children , and weeping . ' 9996 1 En mariage trompe qui peut . Chi perde la moglie e un quattrino , ha gran perdita del quattrino . 3 ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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.