 | Ambrose Serle - 1806 - 502 pàgines
...live, or were weary of life. Like the indolent Indian, perhaps, they can take up their word, and say, " It is better to walk than to run; it is better to lie down than to walk ; it is better to sleep than to wake; it is better to die than to live :" and... | |
 | 1822 - 430 pàgines
...people under the sun, as the following adage, common among them, will sufficiently demonstrate: — It is better to walk than to run — it is better to sit still than to walk — it is better to lie down than to sit — it is better to sleep than to be... | |
 | 1829 - 446 pàgines
...discussions by the nurses and midwives of the village. York Courant. A DUTCHMAN'S CLIMAX OF HAPPINESS. It is better to walk than to run ; it is better to stand than to walk ; it is better to lie down than to sit ; it is better to sleep than to lie down ; it is better to die than to sleep.... | |
 | 1835 - 298 pàgines
...enterprising, than the Cingalese, who are so addicted to laziness, that a favourite maxim with them is, " It is better to stand than to walk ; it is better to sit than to stand ; it is better to lie down than to sit ; it is better to sleep than to be awake, and death is the best... | |
 | 1877 - 564 pàgines
...version of a Hindoo proverb, expressive of the indolent supineness of that race, which runs thus: — "It is better to walk than to run ; it is better to...stand than to walk ; it is better to sit than to stand ; it is better to lie than to sit" JAMES T. PRESIEV. itltstrllnurmiS. NOTES ON BOOKS, ice. The Hitlory... | |
 | 1855 - 802 pàgines
...characteristic of the Hindoos, receives an illustration from a common saying of theirs, to this effect — it is better to walk than to run ; it is better to...stand than to walk ; it is better to sit than to stand ; it is better to lie down than to sit ; it is better to sleep while lying down than to lie awake ;... | |
 | 1858 - 516 pàgines
...emotion ; to move not, to think not, to dream not. " It is better," says the old Indian proverb, " to walk than to run ; it is better to stand than to walk ; it is better to sit than to stand ; it is better to lie down than to sit ; it is better to sleep than to wake ; it is better to die than... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1865 - 474 pàgines
...the evil that is in the world. It was some such feeling as this which suggested the bitter saying, " It is better to walk than to run ; it is better to lie down than to walk, better to sleep than to lie down, better to die than to sleep." It was this... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1865 - 462 pàgines
...the evil that is in the world. It was some such feeling as this which suggested the bitter saying, " It is better to walk than to run; it is better to lie down than to walk, better to sleep than to lie down, better to die than to sleep." It was this... | |
 | Ernest Woodhead - 1883 - 140 pàgines
...very characteristic proverb of the most conservative nation of the world, the Chinese. It ran thus : " It is better to walk than to run ; it is better to...stand than to walk ; it is better to sit than to stand ; it is better to lie than to sit." He thought that, in order to be true in the highest sense, the... | |
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It is better to walk than to run ; it is better to stand than to walk ; it is better to sit than to stand ; and it is better to lie than to sit. 
