On the Lessons in Proverbs: Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and ElsewhereRedfield, 1853 - 140 pàgines |
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adduced admirable affirm Alliteration altogether ancient appears Arabic proverb Aristotle ARSENE HOUSSAYE assume beautiful belong better birth black camel called carcase carum Catalan Christian claim collection compared contain conviction Coriolanus devil divine doubt eagles Egypt English erbs evil existence express Extremes meet fact faith French German proverb God's Greek proverb heart Heidelberg tun honor Ibycus illustrated Italian proverb Jeremy Taylor kingdom land language LATIN PROVERBS lecture lessons lips lives Lord man's maxims men's modern moral mouth multitude nation never nihil oftentimes once ourselves outward pass Persian poetry popular present proclaims prov quam quod regard rhyme rich Scripture sede selfish sense shame shape slight sometimes Spain Spanish proverb speaks spirit things thou thyself tion true truth utterance voice VOX POPULI vult warning wisdom witty words worth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 50 - He who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
Pàgina 135 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Pàgina 97 - ... 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...
Pàgina 61 - 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 saints being in Spain more prominent objects of invocation than God.
Pàgina 34 - ... them committed the avenging of his blood. A vain commission, as it might have appeared, and as no doubt it did to the murderers appear. Yet it was not so. For these, sitting a little time after in the open theatre at Corinth, beheld this flight of cranes hovering above them, and one said scoffingly to another, " Lo, there, the avengers of Ibycus \" The words were caught up by some near them ; for already the poet's disappearance had awakened anxiety and alarm.
Pàgina 21 - And what are proverbs but the people's voice ? Coined first, and current made by common choice ? Then sure they must have weight and truth withal...
Pàgina 56 - Keep off, or you'll smutch me;"*— the Spaniards : The raven cried to the crow, "Avaunt, blackamoor;"^ — the Germans: One ass nicknames another, Long Ears;% — while it must be owned there is a certain originality in the Catalan version of the proverb : Death said to the man with his throat cut, "How ugly you look.
Pàgina 64 - 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...
Pàgina 81 - Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together (Matt.
Pàgina 73 - Nor is it enough to abstain ourselves from all such words ; we must not make ourselves partakers in those of others; which it is...