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 2
... live a begger . Such a beginning fuch an end . He that makes his bed ill lies there . If the bed could tell all it knows it would put ma- ny to the blush . He who lies long in bed his eftate feels it . Who looks not before finds himself ...
... live a begger . Such a beginning fuch an end . He that makes his bed ill lies there . If the bed could tell all it knows it would put ma- ny to the blush . He who lies long in bed his eftate feels it . Who looks not before finds himself ...
Strana 11
... lives by bupe dies breaking of wind back . wards . Ital . Hethat lives in hope danceth without a minstrel . Hif The borse thinks one thing , and he that rides him an- other . Lend thy borse for a long journey , thou mayeft have him ...
... lives by bupe dies breaking of wind back . wards . Ital . Hethat lives in hope danceth without a minstrel . Hif The borse thinks one thing , and he that rides him an- other . Lend thy borse for a long journey , thou mayeft have him ...
Strana 11
... lives by bupe dies breaking of wind back . wards . Ital . Hethat lives in hope danceth without a minstrel . Hif , The borfe thinks one thing , and he that rides him an- other . Lend thy borse for a long journey , thou mayeft have him ...
... lives by bupe dies breaking of wind back . wards . Ital . Hethat lives in hope danceth without a minstrel . Hif , The borfe thinks one thing , and he that rides him an- other . Lend thy borse for a long journey , thou mayeft have him ...
Strana 13
... lives not well one year forrows for it feven . It's not how long , but how well we live . Who lives well fees afar off . Hifpan . The life of man is a winter's day and a winter'sway . He lofeth nothing who keeps God for his friend . He ...
... lives not well one year forrows for it feven . It's not how long , but how well we live . Who lives well fees afar off . Hifpan . The life of man is a winter's day and a winter'sway . He lofeth nothing who keeps God for his friend . He ...
Strana 28
... live ever , you must wash milk from your Liver . Vin fur laict c'est souhait , Laift fur vin c'eft venin . Gall . This is an idle old fawe , for which I can fee no reafon but rather for the contrary . Butter is gold in the morning ...
... live ever , you must wash milk from your Liver . Vin fur laict c'est souhait , Laift fur vin c'eft venin . Gall . This is an idle old fawe , for which I can fee no reafon but rather for the contrary . Butter is gold in the morning ...
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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.