On the Lessons in Proverbs: Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and ElsewhereRedfield, 1855 - 161 Seiten |
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adduced affirm Alliteration altogether appears application Arabic Arabic proverb Aristotle assertion assume belong better birth blessing carcase carum Catalan certainly Christian claim collection Compare contain conviction Coriolanus devil Dios divine doubt embodied English evil excellent express Extremes meet fact faith French German proverb give God's Greek Greek proverb heart heaven Heidelberg tun honor Ibycus Italian proverb Italy Jeremy Taylor kingdom kingdom of heaven land language Latin proverb lecture lesson lips lives Lord man's maxims men's modern moral mouth multitude nation never nihil oftentimes once ourselves outward pass Plato poetry popular present profit prov quam quod regard rhyme rich Roman Scripture sede selfish sense shame shape sight sometimes Spain Spanish proverb speak spirit thee things thou thyself tion tongues true truth uttered via lucis voice vult warning wisdom words worth
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Seite 61 - Italian proverbs have taken a tinge from their deep and politic genius, and their wisdom seems wholly concentrated in their personal interests. I think every tenth proverb, in an Italian collection, is some cynical or some selfish maxim: a book of the world for worldlings!
Seite 79 - Towers are measured by their shadows, and great men by their calumniators ; however this last may have somewhat of an artificial air as tried by our standard of the proverb. There may be poetry in a play upon words ; and such we shall hardly fail to acknowledge in that * In German: Grau
Seite 71 - Keep off, or you'll smutch me;"*— the Spaniards : The raven cried to the crow, "Avaunt, blackamoor;"^ — the Germans: One ass nicknames another, Long Ears;% — while it must be owned there is a certain originality in the Catalan version of the proverb : Death said to the man with his throat cut, "How ugly you look.
Seite 11 - ... down to us from remotest antiquity, borne safely upon the waters of that great stream of time, which has swallowed so much beneath its waves, — all this, I think, may well make us pause, should we be tempted to turn away from them with anything of indifference or disdain. And then further, there is this to be considered, that some of the greatest poets, the profoundest philosophers, the most learned scholars, the most genial writers in every kind, have delighted in them, have made large and...
Seite 89 - ... fellows, which so many of them contain. In truth, there is no region of practical life which they do not occupy, for which they do not supply some wise hints and counsels and warnings...
Seite 102 - Truths, of all others the most awful and interesting, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Seite 147 - Any one, who by after investigation has sought to discover how much our rustic hearers carry away, even from the sermons to which they have attentively listened, will find that it is hardly ever the course and tenor of the argument, supposing the discourse to have contained such ; but if anything...
Seite 116 - Where wilt thou go, ox, that thou wilt not have to plough 1\ is the Catalan remonstrance addressed to one, who imagines by any outward change of circumstances to evade the inevitable task and toil of existence. And this is Turkish : It is not with saying Honey, Honey...
Seite 67 - Make hay while the sun shines, is truly English, and could have had its birth only under such variable skies as ours, — not certainly in those southern lands where, during the summer time at least, the sun always shines.
Seite 140 - Good things are hard,* he continually rebuked their empty pretensions ; with this he made at least suspicious their promises ; and this proverb, true in the sense wherein Plato used it, and that sense was earnest and serious enough, yet surely reappears, glorified and transfigured, but recognisable still, in the Savior's words : " The kingdom of heaven is taken by violence, and the violent take it by force.