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 17
... carry his own burden . There's no companion like the penny . Hifpan . He that takes not up a pin flights his wife . He that pitieth another remembereth himself . Hifp . Play , women and wine undo men laughing . Noble plants fuit not a ...
... carry his own burden . There's no companion like the penny . Hifpan . He that takes not up a pin flights his wife . He that pitieth another remembereth himself . Hifp . Play , women and wine undo men laughing . Noble plants fuit not a ...
Strana 25
... carried away , after every particular fer- mentation or paroxyfm , and not again taken up by the blood , it is ... carry away those more grofs and feculent parts which have been feparated by the feve- ral fermentations , and could ...
... carried away , after every particular fer- mentation or paroxyfm , and not again taken up by the blood , it is ... carry away those more grofs and feculent parts which have been feparated by the feve- ral fermentations , and could ...
Strana 26
... carry that . by little and little , which if laid on his back at once he would fink under . Hence old men , who in this refpect alfo , I mean by reafon of the decay of their fpirits and natural heat , do again become children , are ...
... carry that . by little and little , which if laid on his back at once he would fink under . Hence old men , who in this refpect alfo , I mean by reafon of the decay of their fpirits and natural heat , do again become children , are ...
Strana 48
... carry a dead man's child . A little house well fill'd , a little land well till'd , and a little wife well will'd . One year of joy , another of comfort , and all the reft of content . A marriage wish . My My fon's my fon , till he hath ...
... carry a dead man's child . A little house well fill'd , a little land well till'd , and a little wife well will'd . One year of joy , another of comfort , and all the reft of content . A marriage wish . My My fon's my fon , till he hath ...
Strana 97
... carry him over the Sound . He that hath fhipp'd the Devil must make the best of him . Seldom lies the Devil dead in a ditch , We are not to truft the Devil or his Children , though they feem never fo gentle or harmless , without all ...
... carry him over the Sound . He that hath fhipp'd the Devil must make the best of him . Seldom lies the Devil dead in a ditch , We are not to truft the Devil or his Children , though they feem never fo gentle or harmless , without all ...
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againſt alfo alſo becauſe beft begger Belg beſt Better bread caft called Cambridgeshire caufe cauſe cheeſe Chefb Cheshire Corn Country Devil Dial Diphthong doth drink Effex fafe faid fair fame fave feems feldom fenfe fhall fhew fhoe fhould fide fignifies fire firft firſt fmall fome fool foon fpoken French ftand ftill fuch fuppofe fure Gall give goofe hath Hifpan himſelf horfe horſe houfe houſe Ital laft lefs lofe loft malè man's meat moft moſt mouth muft muſt never nofe Norf obferved old Saxon one's Ovid penny Perfons pleaſe Plutarch Proverb purſe quod quoth reafon Saxon Skinner ſmall Somerfet ſpeak ſpend ſtanding Suff tail Teut thefe themſelves There's theſe thing thofe thoſe thou ufed ufually uſed vafe wald wife wither to death Word worfe worſe young
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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.