On the Lessons in Proverbs: Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and ElsewhereRedfield, 1853 - 140 Seiten |
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adduced admirable affirm Alliteration altogether appears application Aristotle ARSENE HOUSSAYE beautiful belong better birth blessing carcase carum Catalan certainly Christian claim collection Compare contain conviction Coriolanus devil Dios divine doubt edition Egypt embodied English evil excellent express Extremes meet fact faith French German proverb give God's Greek heart heaven Heidelberg tun honor Ibycus illustration Italian proverb Jeremy Taylor kingdom land language Latin proverb lecture lesson lips literature lives Lord man's maxims men's moral mouth multitude nation never nihil oftentimes once ourselves outward pass Plato poetry popular possess present prov quam quod regard rhyme rich Roman Scripture selfish sense Shakespeare 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 writer
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Seite 159 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
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 115 - ... are given, Sound, healthy children of the God of heaven, Are cheerful as the rising sun in May. What do we gather hence but firmer faith That every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath ? That virtue and the faculties within Are vital, — and that riches are akin To fear, to change, to cowardice and death...
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 144 - Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.
Seite 11 - ... on the gathering and elucidating of them. In a fastidious age, indeed, and one of false refinement, they may go nearly or quite out of use among the so-called upper classes. No gentleman, says Lord Chesterfield, or "No man of fashion...
Seite 76 - God forgotten, 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 saint being in Spain more prominent objects of invocation than God.
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.