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 xi
... , an in- ftructive fentence , or common and pithy faying , in which more is generally de- fign'd than exprefs'd , famous for its pecu- liarity and elegance , and therefore adopt- ed ed by the learned as well as the vulgar , ( II )
... , an in- ftructive fentence , or common and pithy faying , in which more is generally de- fign'd than exprefs'd , famous for its pecu- liarity and elegance , and therefore adopt- ed ed by the learned as well as the vulgar , ( II )
Strana xii
... its own elegance , and charms men into an univerfal re- ception of it ; it is alfo frequently be- holden to the propriety or the ambigui- ty of a word , for its fingularity and approbation ; in short , brevity , without obicurity , is ...
... its own elegance , and charms men into an univerfal re- ception of it ; it is alfo frequently be- holden to the propriety or the ambigui- ty of a word , for its fingularity and approbation ; in short , brevity , without obicurity , is ...
Strana xii
... its own elegance , and charms men into an univerfal re- ception of it : it is alfo frequently be- holden to the propriety or the ambigui- ty of a word , for its fingularity and approbation ; in short , brevity , without obfcurity , is ...
... its own elegance , and charms men into an univerfal re- ception of it : it is alfo frequently be- holden to the propriety or the ambigui- ty of a word , for its fingularity and approbation ; in short , brevity , without obfcurity , is ...
Strana 3
... It's easy to bowl down hill . Brabbling currs never want fore ears . The brain that fows not corn plants thiftles . The Afs that brays moft eats leaft . Would you have better bread than is made of wheat ? Ital . Bread with eyes , and ...
... It's easy to bowl down hill . Brabbling currs never want fore ears . The brain that fows not corn plants thiftles . The Afs that brays moft eats leaft . Would you have better bread than is made of wheat ? Ital . Bread with eyes , and ...
Strana 5
... It's a wicked thing to make a dearth one's garner . Death keeps no Kalender . Men fear death as children to go in the dark . Better to go to bed fupperlefs than to rise in debt . Hif . Deeds are fruits , words are but leaves . Deeds are ...
... It's a wicked thing to make a dearth one's garner . Death keeps no Kalender . Men fear death as children to go in the dark . Better to go to bed fupperlefs than to rise in debt . Hif . Deeds are fruits , words are but leaves . Deeds are ...
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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.