Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other Popular Dicta from Many LandsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916 - 428 pàgines |
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... When the wind is in the east ' tis good for neither man nor beast , are adages in common use . Furthermore , the success or failure of human undertaking is often dependent on clear or cloudy skies . Emerson once said in justifi- cation ...
... When the wind is in the east ' tis good for neither man nor beast , are adages in common use . Furthermore , the success or failure of human undertaking is often dependent on clear or cloudy skies . Emerson once said in justifi- cation ...
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Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms ... Dwight Edwards Marvin Visualització completa - 1916 |
Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms ... Dwight Edwards Marvin Visualització completa - 1916 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 105 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Pàgina 112 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Pàgina 99 - A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Pàgina 98 - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Pàgina 182 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Pàgina 125 - For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Pàgina 367 - I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Pàgina 112 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Pàgina 146 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
Pàgina 146 - If apples are inclined to fall before their time, a stone placed in a split root will retain them.' Some such notion, still surviving, may account for some of the stones which we see placed, to be overgrown, in the forks of trees. They have a saying, in Suffolk, England. 'At Michaelmas time, or a little before, Half an apple goes to the core.