Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated with Notes and Comments. To which is Added a Summary of Ancient Pastimes, Holidays, and Customs; with an Analysis of the Wisdom of the Ancients, and of the Fathers of the Church. The Whole Arranged on a New Plan ...John Wade Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - 215 strán (strany) |
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Strana xvii
... look into the annals of crime , or the page of history , without meeting with examples of the deadly application of this proverb . It was applied by Stewart , against the Earl of Morton in Scotland , and subsequently to the Earl of ...
... look into the annals of crime , or the page of history , without meeting with examples of the deadly application of this proverb . It was applied by Stewart , against the Earl of Morton in Scotland , and subsequently to the Earl of ...
Strana 14
... looks clumsy and aukward , which those who want judgement will be offended at . We hope the honourable critics who were lately so severe in their strictures on the improvements going on in Westminster - hall , had duly weighed the ...
... looks clumsy and aukward , which those who want judgement will be offended at . We hope the honourable critics who were lately so severe in their strictures on the improvements going on in Westminster - hall , had duly weighed the ...
Strana 19
... look before him must look behind him.- Gaelic . He who serves a bad man sows in the market . - Spanish . He that seeks trouble it were a pity he should miss it.- Scotch . He has more business than English ovens at Christmas.- Italian ...
... look before him must look behind him.- Gaelic . He who serves a bad man sows in the market . - Spanish . He that seeks trouble it were a pity he should miss it.- Scotch . He has more business than English ovens at Christmas.- Italian ...
Strana 22
... look like a flock of geese . If wise men play the fool , they do it with a vengeance . If you would have a good servant take neither a kinsman nor a friend . If a fool have success it ruins him . In sleep what difference is there ...
... look like a flock of geese . If wise men play the fool , they do it with a vengeance . If you would have a good servant take neither a kinsman nor a friend . If a fool have success it ruins him . In sleep what difference is there ...
Strana 27
... look for me at home , who can meet me in the mar- ket - place . - Spanish . Recommending persons to keep their domestic establishments free from intrusion , especially when they have places set apart for public business . Letters blush ...
... look for me at home , who can meet me in the mar- ket - place . - Spanish . Recommending persons to keep their domestic establishments free from intrusion , especially when they have places set apart for public business . Letters blush ...
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Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated with Notes and Comments, to ... John Wade Úplné zobrazenie - 1825 |
Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated with Notes and Comments, to ... John Wade Úplné zobrazenie - 1825 |
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ancient beauty belly better Boy Bishop bread called church Congleton country of blind Crediton cuckold cuckoo custom D'Israeli dead devil door doth drink enemy England evil fair fire fish folly fool formerly fortune French Ghost give goes hand hang hath heart Hobson's choice honour horns horse husband Ital Italian Julius Cæsar keep king kiss knave knows Ladies of pleasure laughs live London maid man's married means meat mouth nature never observed pastimes person play plough poor Poverty proverb Publius Syrus purse quintain quoth rich Scotch Scotland servants Skimmington Spanish speak Syrus Tenterden thing thou truth Vicar of Bray virtue wear Weeping Cross wife wine wisdom wise witches woman women words worse worth young
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Strana 157 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Strana 190 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Strana 156 - He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Strana 177 - Do smoak all about, The cooks are providing For dinner, no doubt; But those on whose tables No victuals appear, O may they keep Lent All the rest of the year ! With holly and ivy So green and so gay ; We deck up our houses As fresh as the day, With bays and rosemary, And laurel compleat, And every one now Is a king in conceit.
Strana 170 - Burning the nuts is a famous charm. They name the lad and lass to each particular nut, as they lay them in the fire, and accordingly as they burn quietly together, or start from beside one another, the course and issue of the courtship will be.
Strana 89 - For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Strana 166 - The quintain thus fashioned was placed upon a pivot, and so contrived as to move round with facility. In running at this figure it was necessary for the horseman to direct his lance with great adroitness, and make his stroke upon the forehead between the eyes or upon the nose ; for if he struck wide of those parts...
Strana 172 - THE passing bell was anciently rung for two purposes ; one, to bespeak the prayers of all good Christians for a soul just departing; the other, to drive away the evil spirits who stood at the bed's foot and about the house, ready to seize their prey, or at least to molest and terrify the soul in its passage...
Strana 159 - Business; but to these we must add Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly successful. A Man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
Strana 159 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.