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 pàgines |
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Pàgina xix
... by their airy sarcasm or their caus tic satire , the luxuriance of their humour , the playfulness of their turn , and even by the elegance of their ima- gery , and the tenderness of their sentiment . They INTRODUCTION . хіх.
... by their airy sarcasm or their caus tic satire , the luxuriance of their humour , the playfulness of their turn , and even by the elegance of their ima- gery , and the tenderness of their sentiment . They INTRODUCTION . хіх.
Pàgina 8
... turn him out . - Scotch . It is easier to keep out a bad inmate than to get rid of him after he has once been admitted . It is also used in another sense , imply- ing that it is better to resist our passions at first than after in ...
... turn him out . - Scotch . It is easier to keep out a bad inmate than to get rid of him after he has once been admitted . It is also used in another sense , imply- ing that it is better to resist our passions at first than after in ...
Pàgina 14
... turn upon its assailants . By all means then let the vanquished have a free course . Fox's broth which is cold and scalds . - Spanish . Said of artful and dissembling persons , who in their behaviour appear modest and affable for the ...
... turn upon its assailants . By all means then let the vanquished have a free course . Fox's broth which is cold and scalds . - Spanish . Said of artful and dissembling persons , who in their behaviour appear modest and affable for the ...
Pàgina 16
... turn of a die . - Spanish . God makes , and apparel shapes . God help the poor , for the rich can help themselves . - Scotch . God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb . - French . Good enough is never aught . God never sends mouths but ...
... turn of a die . - Spanish . God makes , and apparel shapes . God help the poor , for the rich can help themselves . - Scotch . God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb . - French . Good enough is never aught . God never sends mouths but ...
Pàgina 20
... turn will never forgive you . - Scotch . He that fears leaves must not come into a wood . He who eats the meat , let him pick the bone . - Spanish . He has found a last to his shoe . - Spanish . That is , he has met with his match . He ...
... turn will never forgive you . - Scotch . He that fears leaves must not come into a wood . He who eats the meat , let him pick the bone . - Spanish . He has found a last to his shoe . - Spanish . That is , he has met with his match . He ...
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Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated with Notes and Comments, to ... John Wade Visualització completa - 1825 |
Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated with Notes and Comments, to ... John Wade Visualització completa - 1825 |
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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
Passatges populars
Pàgina 157 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 156 - He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.