...for the faults of others. rease a soundrel's boot, and he'll say that you are going to burn them; or set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the devil. So I be warm, let the people laugh. A. bad countenance indicates depravity of heart. An qpulent man...

...abominably." " Asperius nihil est, humili cum surgit in altum," which may be best rendered by our English adage, " Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the devil." " Tu fai come la simia, che piu va in alto, piu mostra il cula," that is, " an ape, the higher he climbs,...

...for the faults of others. rease a soundrel's boot, -and he'll say that you are going to burn them; or set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the devil. So I be warm, let the people laugh. A bad countenance indicates depravity of heart. An opulent man...

...customs. Several men, several minds. We say, if any fool finds the cap fit him," let him put it on. Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the devil. There is no rose without thorns, there is no sweet without some sweat. To eat an whale ox and faint...

...fashion among the dandies and macaronies of the fourteenth century. According to the old proverb, " Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the devil," le Rouge Escuyer, had no sooner become possessed of these articles of finery, than, unwilling to deny...

...le ha heredero. " Put a beggar into your barn, and he will make himself your heir.:> — We say, " Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the devil." goose and stick a feather," or " To give a sprat to catch a herring." -Mi' casa y ml fogar^ cien doblas...

...Miss Petersfield, whispering the following elegant remark as she stepped into her carriage. — " Ah ! set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the devil." Miss Petersfield was rather vexed. — * QhA my lady !" said she, " not a beggar — but plebeian,...

...a choice of some of the most splendid specimens of modem art extant for the purposes of his work. ' Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride to the devil,' is a proverb, to the truth of which most men's experience will bear abundant testimony. The case to...

...— " A beggar raised to wealth is generally unmindful of himself." As the English proverb says, " Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the devil."— M. 3358. Purgamenta hujus mundi sunttria, pestis, bellum, etfrateria. (Lat.) — " There are three...

...opinion, one of the best in the calendar; not- *T*t' J" withstanding which, I cannot avoid sometimes X • Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride to the devil. t Learning makes life sweet, and produces pleasure, tranquillity, glory and praise. t The greatest...