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 worthy
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Seite 144 - It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Seite 68 - He who will not be ruled by the rudder, must be ruled by the rock...
Seite 144 - Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.
Seite 76 - Thus in English we say, The river past, and God for'gotten, to express with how mournful a frequency, he whose assistance was invoked, it may have been earnestly, in the moment of peril, is remembered no more, so soon as by his help the danger has been surmounted. The Spaniards have the proverb too ; but it is with them ; The river past, the saint forgotten * the saints being in Spain more prominent objects of invocation than God.
Seite 36 - Memory in a liar is no more than needs. For, first, lies are hard to be remembered, because many, whereas truth is but one ; secondly, because a lie, cursorily told, takes little footing and settled fastness in the teller's memory, but prints itself deeper in the hearers', who take the greater notice because of the improbability and deformity thereof; and one will remember the sight of a monster longer than the sight of a handsome body. Hence comes it to pass, that, when the liar hath forgotten himself,...
Seite 90 - Of thine unspoken word thou art master ; thy spoken word is master of thee : even as the same is set out elsewhere by many striking comparisons : it is the arrow from the bow, the stone from the sling ; and, once launched, can as little be recalled as these4 Our own, He who says what he likes, shall hear what he does not like...
Seite 11 - ... 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 frequent use of them, have bestowed infinite...
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 has been uttered, as it used so often to be by the best Puritan preachers, tersely, pointedly, epigrammatically, this will have stayed by them, while all the rest has passed away.
Seite 89 - ... there is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.
Seite 61 - The 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!