Proverbs of All NationsW. Kent, 1861 - 238 páginas |
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... thrown into prison upon a serious charge ; and his wife , who was one of the queen's ladies in waiting , was reported to have eloped with his page . Certain it was that the page and the lady had fled , no one could tell whither ...
... thrown into prison upon a serious charge ; and his wife , who was one of the queen's ladies in waiting , was reported to have eloped with his page . Certain it was that the page and the lady had fled , no one could tell whither ...
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... throw me among my own . Every cock is proud on his own dunghill . A cock is crouse on his ain midden.- Scotch . 2 " " 1 This proverb has descended to us from the Romans : it is quoted by Seneca . Its medieval equivalent , Gallus cantat ...
... throw me among my own . Every cock is proud on his own dunghill . A cock is crouse on his ain midden.- Scotch . 2 " " 1 This proverb has descended to us from the Romans : it is quoted by Seneca . Its medieval equivalent , Gallus cantat ...
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... throw him into the sea , " Pitch him into the Nile , " say the Arabs , " and he will come up with a fish in his mouth ; and the Germans , " If he threw up a penny on the roof , down would come a dollar to him . ” 2 What is worse than ...
... throw him into the sea , " Pitch him into the Nile , " say the Arabs , " and he will come up with a fish in his mouth ; and the Germans , " If he threw up a penny on the roof , down would come a dollar to him . ” 2 What is worse than ...
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... throws me " ( Portuguese ) . * Little sticks kindle a fire , but great ones put it out . Fair and softly goes far in a day . Hooly and fairly men ride far journeys - Scotch . " Who goes softly goes safely , and who goes safely 1 El ...
... throws me " ( Portuguese ) . * Little sticks kindle a fire , but great ones put it out . Fair and softly goes far in a day . Hooly and fairly men ride far journeys - Scotch . " Who goes softly goes safely , and who goes safely 1 El ...
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... throw away , set on workmen and don't stand by " ( Italian ) ; for 2 When the cat's away the mice will play . The eye of the master fattens the steed . The master's eye puts mate on the horse's bones . - Ulster . " The answers of Perses ...
... throw away , set on workmen and don't stand by " ( Italian ) ; for 2 When the cat's away the mice will play . The eye of the master fattens the steed . The master's eye puts mate on the horse's bones . - Ulster . " The answers of Perses ...
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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.