Queer Discourses on Queer ProverbsClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 136 pàgines |
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Queer Discourses on Queer Proverbs, Edició 38 Edwin Hodder,Old Merry pseud Visualització completa - 1868 |
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Pàgina 124 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Pàgina 83 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Pàgina 129 - LEAR. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o
Pàgina 8 - LUCY Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it : Nothing in it, nothing in it, But the binding round it. LIV. SAYS Aaron to Moses, Let's cut off our noses : Says Moses to Aaron, 'Tis the fashion to wear 'em.
Pàgina 28 - Let me take the splinter out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.
Pàgina 58 - From the country of the East, Came this strong and handsome beast : This able ass, beyond compare, Heavy loads and packs to bear. Now, seignior aas, a noble bray, Thy beauteous mouth at large display ; Abundant food our hay-lofts yield, And oats abundant load the field.
Pàgina 24 - A little word in kindness spoken, A motion or a tear, Has often healed the heart that's broken, And made a friend sincere.
Pàgina 42 - ... repentance who comes so often to be forgiven. I think it is right and well that we should make every new year a starting-point, and begin it with new endeavours and good purposes, and lock our stable doors ; but it speaks very little for our precautions if we find the year is lost, and the horse is stolen. When the ship is sunk, every man knows how she might have been saved ; and when a year has been lost, we see how we might have improved it. Let the experiences of the past year be lessons for...
Pàgina 59 - With your belly full of grain, Bray, most honoured ass, Amen ! Bray out loudly, bray again, Never mind the old Amen ; Without ceasing, bray again, Amen ! Amen ! Amen ! Amen ! Hee-haw ! He-haw ! He-haw ! ' The
Pàgina 122 - The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.