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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Výsledky 1 - 5 z 10.
Strana 56
... live in a gravel - pit . Spoken of a wary , sparing , niggardly person . This grow'd by night . Spoken of a crooked stick or tree , it could not fee to grow . Great Great doings at Gregory's , heat the oven twice for 56 An Alphabet.
... live in a gravel - pit . Spoken of a wary , sparing , niggardly person . This grow'd by night . Spoken of a crooked stick or tree , it could not fee to grow . Great Great doings at Gregory's , heat the oven twice for 56 An Alphabet.
Strana 57
... person they would borrow of , or some of his parts or qualities : The fame may be faid of beggars . A bandfome bodied man in the face . Hang yourself for a paftimé . If I be bang'd , I'll chufe my gallows . A King Harry's face . Better ...
... person they would borrow of , or some of his parts or qualities : The fame may be faid of beggars . A bandfome bodied man in the face . Hang yourself for a paftimé . If I be bang'd , I'll chufe my gallows . A King Harry's face . Better ...
Strana 59
... person . To play leaft in fight . To go as if dead lice dropp'd out of him . He is fo poor , lean , and weak , that he cannot maintain his lice , Thou'lt lie all manner of colours but blue , and that is gone to the litting . i . e ...
... person . To play leaft in fight . To go as if dead lice dropp'd out of him . He is fo poor , lean , and weak , that he cannot maintain his lice , Thou'lt lie all manner of colours but blue , and that is gone to the litting . i . e ...
Strana 86
... persons shall have their eyes sprinted out with the ftones . ! Chickens feed capons . i . e . As I understand it , chickens come to be capons , and capons were first chickens . It's a wife child knows his own father . Οὐ γὰρ πώ τις ἔον ...
... persons shall have their eyes sprinted out with the ftones . ! Chickens feed capons . i . e . As I understand it , chickens come to be capons , and capons were first chickens . It's a wife child knows his own father . Οὐ γὰρ πώ τις ἔον ...
Strana
... Persons of a servile temper or education have no sense of honour or ingenuity , and must be dealt with accordingly . Ungentem pungit , pungentem ruiftcus ungit . Which fentence both the French and Italians in their lan- guages have made ...
... Persons of a servile temper or education have no sense of honour or ingenuity , and must be dealt with accordingly . Ungentem pungit , pungentem ruiftcus ungit . Which fentence both the French and Italians in their lan- guages have made ...
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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.