 Arabs, of a man whose good luck seems never to forsake him, so that from the very things which would be another man's ruin, he extricates himself not merely without harm, but with profit and with credit. Of such a one they say : Fling him into the Nile,...  On the lessons in proverbs, 5 lectures - Pàgina 10per Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1853Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1854 - 694 pàgines
...which would be another man's ruin, he extricates himself not merely without harm, but with profit and credit — of such an one they say, Fling him into the Nile, and he will come up with aßsh in his mouth." The dependence of proverbs on the form of their expression is shown by the difficulty... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1853 - 156 pàgines
...man's ruin, he extricates himself not merely without harm, but with profit and with credit. Of such a one they say : Fling him into the Nile, and he will...employ. In all this which I have just traced out, in the fact that the proverbs of a language are so frequently its highest bloom and flower, while yet so much... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1853 - 156 pàgines
...man's ruin, he extricates himself not merely without harm, but with profit and with credit. Of such a one they say : Fling him into the Nile, and he will...employ. In all this which I have just traced out, in the fact that the proverbs of a language are so frequently its highest bloom and flower, while yet so much... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1853 - 180 pàgines
...man's ruin he extricates himself not merely without harm, but with profit and with credit, the Arabs say : Fling him into the Nile, and he will come up...employ. In all this which I have just traced out, in the fact that the proverbs of a language are so frequently its highest bloom and flower, while yet so much... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1853 - 156 pàgines
...man's ruin, he extricates himself not merely without harm, but with profit and with credit. Of such a one they say : Fling him into the Nile, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. "VVe have here examples of hyperbole in the proverb, a figure of natural rhetoric which Scripture itself... | |
 | 1854 - 738 pàgines
...man is " born with a silver spoon in his mouth," the Arabs were long before us with their .ying : " Fling him into the Nile and he will come up with a fish in hit mouth." The antiquity and trtdition of proverbs are wonderful. Aristotle, two thousand years ago,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 176 pàgines
...man's ruin he extricates himself not merely without harm, but with profit and with credit, the Arabs say : Fling him into the Nile, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. A^^e have here examples of hyperbole in the proverb, a figure of natural rhetoric which Scripture itself... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1856 - 192 pàgines
...not merely without harm, but with profit and with credit, the Arabs say : Fling him into the Jf-ile, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. We have...In all this which I have just traced out — in the fact that the proverbs of a language are so frequently its highest bloom and flower, while yet so much... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1861 - 176 pàgines
...man's ruin he extricates himself not merely without harm, but with credit and with gain, the Arabs say : Fling him into the Nile, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth ; while of such a Fortuuatus as this the Germans have a proverb : If he flung a penny on the roof,... | |
 | Gulian Lansing - 1864 - 450 pàgines
...andj'eaching; Christian Missions; Its Promises of Christianity. PEEFACE. THE Egyptian proverb says, "Cast him into the Nile, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth." Without laying claim to the uniformly Ijcky character which this proverb describes, I may say that... | |
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