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 Seiten |
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... sisting not in one predominant quality , but in the union of several . We have not the rich humour and glowing imagination of the Spaniards , the insidious refinements of the Italians , the selfish prudence of the Scotch X INTRODUCTION .
... sisting not in one predominant quality , but in the union of several . We have not the rich humour and glowing imagination of the Spaniards , the insidious refinements of the Italians , the selfish prudence of the Scotch X INTRODUCTION .
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... Scotch . A burthen which one chuses is not felt . Accusing is proving , where malice and power sit judges . A crowd is not company . A thousand probabilities do not make one truth . A blow from a frying pan , though it does not hurt ...
... Scotch . A burthen which one chuses is not felt . Accusing is proving , where malice and power sit judges . A crowd is not company . A thousand probabilities do not make one truth . A blow from a frying pan , though it does not hurt ...
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... Scotch . Alexander was below a man when he affected to be a god . A man is a man , though he have but a hose upon his head . A good shape is in the shear's mouth . - Scotch . A good key is necessary to enter into Paradise . - Italian ...
... Scotch . Alexander was below a man when he affected to be a god . A man is a man , though he have but a hose upon his head . A good shape is in the shear's mouth . - Scotch . A good key is necessary to enter into Paradise . - Italian ...
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... Scotch . A kiss of the mouth often touches not the heart . Ital . - Bacio di bocca spesso cuor non tocca . A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's . A man with his belly full is no great eater . — Spanish . A man ...
... Scotch . A kiss of the mouth often touches not the heart . Ital . - Bacio di bocca spesso cuor non tocca . A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's . A man with his belly full is no great eater . — Spanish . A man ...
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... Scotch . A mischievous cur must be tied short . - French . A man is a lion in his ain cause . - Scotch . We had some proof of this in the conduct of the Reformers , who in the late years defended their ain cause . ' There is indeed ...
... Scotch . A mischievous cur must be tied short . - French . A man is a lion in his ain cause . - Scotch . We had some proof of this in the conduct of the Reformers , who in the late years defended their ain cause . ' There is indeed ...
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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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Seite 157 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Seite 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.
Seite 156 - He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.