A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs: Also the Most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Other Languages. The Whole Methodically Digested and Illustrated with Annotations, and Proper ExplanationsW. Otridge, S. Bladon, 1768 - 150 strán (strany) |
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Strana 20
... should , fhall not have to spend when he would . Who hath Spice enough may season his meat as he pleaseth . It's a poor sport that is not worth the candle , The best of the sport is to do the deed and say no- thing . That which will not ...
... should , fhall not have to spend when he would . Who hath Spice enough may season his meat as he pleaseth . It's a poor sport that is not worth the candle , The best of the sport is to do the deed and say no- thing . That which will not ...
Strana 29
... should advise all perfons not to go to bed with their ftomachs full of wine , beer , or any other liquor.For ( as the ingenious Doctor Lower obferves ) nothing can be more injurious to the brain ; of which he gives a moft rational and ...
... should advise all perfons not to go to bed with their ftomachs full of wine , beer , or any other liquor.For ( as the ingenious Doctor Lower obferves ) nothing can be more injurious to the brain ; of which he gives a moft rational and ...
Strana 31
... should never touch your eye but with your elbow . Non patitur ludum fama , fides , oculus . To thefe I fhall add a few French and Italian Proverbs . TE Enez chaud le pied & la tefte , Au demeurant vivez en befte . Which Mr.Cotgrave ...
... should never touch your eye but with your elbow . Non patitur ludum fama , fides , oculus . To thefe I fhall add a few French and Italian Proverbs . TE Enez chaud le pied & la tefte , Au demeurant vivez en befte . Which Mr.Cotgrave ...
Strana 45
... should not have inferted , but that I met with it in a little book , entitled , The Quakers Spiritual Court proclaimed , written by Na- thanael Smith , Student in Phyfick : Wherein the Author mentions it as Counfel given him by one ...
... should not have inferted , but that I met with it in a little book , entitled , The Quakers Spiritual Court proclaimed , written by Na- thanael Smith , Student in Phyfick : Wherein the Author mentions it as Counfel given him by one ...
Strana 47
... should be one Lazaretto , and that filled with the infected , than make every house in town a Peft - house , they dwelling dispersedly or fingly So is it in a neighbourhood , & c . Old maids lead apes in hell . Batchelors wives and ...
... should be one Lazaretto , and that filled with the infected , than make every house in town a Peft - house , they dwelling dispersedly or fingly So is it in a neighbourhood , & c . Old maids lead apes in hell . Batchelors wives and ...
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Strana 175 - A MAN of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds...
Strana 152 - Some say whore. £nit my dog a pair of breeches, and my cat a codpiece. He hath tied a knot with his tongue that he cannot untie -with all his teeth.
Strana 25 - If there be a rainbow in the eve, it will rain and leave, But if there be a rainbow in the morrow, it will neither lend nor borrow.
Strana 177 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Strana 59 - The hearth, or bottom of the furnace, is made of sand stone, and the sides round, to the height of a yard, or thereabout; the rest of the furnace is lined up to the top with brick. When they begin upon a new furnace they put fire for a day or two before they begin to blow.
Strana 60 - ... till they bring it to a bloom, which is a foursquare mass of about two feet long. This operation they call shingling the loop.
Strana 177 - To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs.
Strana 65 - Underneath is fastened' to the barrel a spoke of wood, which they call a swingle, which is drawn back a good way by the calms or cogs in the axis of the wheel, and draws back the barrel, which falls to again by its own weight.
Strana 8 - When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.
Strana 115 - Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him know.