Proverbs of All NationsW. Kent, 1861 - 238 páginas |
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CONTENTS . PAGE WOMEN , LOVE , MARRIAGE , ETC. 1 PARENTS AND CHILDREN 26 YOUTH AND AGE 29 NATURAL CHARACTER 32 HOME 36 PRESENCE , ABSENCE , SOCIAL INTERCOURSE 39 FRIENDSHIP 42 CO - OPERATION , RECIPROCITY , SUBORDINATION 47 LUCK ...
CONTENTS . PAGE WOMEN , LOVE , MARRIAGE , ETC. 1 PARENTS AND CHILDREN 26 YOUTH AND AGE 29 NATURAL CHARACTER 32 HOME 36 PRESENCE , ABSENCE , SOCIAL INTERCOURSE 39 FRIENDSHIP 42 CO - OPERATION , RECIPROCITY , SUBORDINATION 47 LUCK ...
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... children , and weeping . " " " 1 En mariage trompe qui peut . 2 Chi perde la moglie e un quattrino , ha gran perdita del quattrino . 3 Doglia di moglie morta dura fino alla porta . Dôr de mulher morta , dura até a porta . 4 Dous bouns ...
... children , and weeping . " " " 1 En mariage trompe qui peut . 2 Chi perde la moglie e un quattrino , ha gran perdita del quattrino . 3 Doglia di moglie morta dura fino alla porta . Dôr de mulher morta , dura até a porta . 4 Dous bouns ...
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PARENTS AND CHILDREN , 66 Children are certain cares , but uncertain comforts . Little children and headaches ... child that knows his own father . 193 66 Happily , as a French sage remarks , " One is always somebody's child , and ...
PARENTS AND CHILDREN , 66 Children are certain cares , but uncertain comforts . Little children and headaches ... child that knows his own father . 193 66 Happily , as a French sage remarks , " One is always somebody's child , and ...
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... children " ( German ) . " If our child squints , our neighbour's child has a cast in both eyes " ( Livonian ) . As the old cock crows so crows the young ; or , As the old cock crows the young cock learns . If the mare have a bald face ...
... children " ( German ) . " If our child squints , our neighbour's child has a cast in both eyes " ( Livonian ) . As the old cock crows so crows the young ; or , As the old cock crows the young cock learns . If the mare have a bald face ...
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Proverbs of All Nations: Compared, Explained, and Illustrated (Classic Reprint) Walter K. Kelly Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 66 - tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.
Página 60 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars...
Página 60 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Página 213 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Página 16 - Marriage is a desperate thing. The Frogs in JEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some Water, but they would not leap into the Well, because they could not get out again.
Página 132 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 17 - God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife; for from thence will spring all thy future good or evil. And it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once. If thy estate be good, match near home and at leisure ; if weak, far off and quickly.
Página 130 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Página 75 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.