Proverbial Folk-loreFolcroft Library Editions, 1976 - 173 pagine |
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Pagina 54
... wise before the deed , The Germans are wise in the deed , The French are wise after the deed . Scotch proverbs will be met with , scattered up and down , through the whole of these chapters : it may suffice therefore to give some few ...
... wise before the deed , The Germans are wise in the deed , The French are wise after the deed . Scotch proverbs will be met with , scattered up and down , through the whole of these chapters : it may suffice therefore to give some few ...
Pagina 131
... wise man , The things you cant help - and the things that you can ! — a rule which does not leave much for Discontent to fasten on . Very much to the same effect writes the amusing author of Dr. Syntax . That man , I trow , is doubly ...
... wise man , The things you cant help - and the things that you can ! — a rule which does not leave much for Discontent to fasten on . Very much to the same effect writes the amusing author of Dr. Syntax . That man , I trow , is doubly ...
Pagina 173
... wise in his own conceit . If Silence may sometimes be mistaken for assent . it be the conceited fool , he must not be left to imagine unanswered words unanswerable . Again , A stone is heavy , and the sand weighty , But a fool's wrath ...
... wise in his own conceit . If Silence may sometimes be mistaken for assent . it be the conceited fool , he must not be left to imagine unanswered words unanswerable . Again , A stone is heavy , and the sand weighty , But a fool's wrath ...
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American cousins answer better Beware bread Camarina cant Charity church Church of Rome dangerous dear divine doctor doth doubt English epigram evil fair famous fool French say Friday friendship gentleman give gold half hand happy hath heart Heaven Hobson's choice honest honour horse Hudibras Ibycus instance Italians John Bunyan keep kind King King Mob lady late lawyer live Lord Lord Lytton Malaprop man's marriage marry Matthew Henry maxim mind ne'er neighbour never once perhaps poet polygamy poor Pope Prov proverbs quoted rain remarked rich Scotch Scripture shalt sins sometimes speak steal sure Surrey talk Talmud tell Tenterden thee There's things thou Three Theological Virtues tongue true truth Twill warn weather wife wind wisdom wise woman women words worth young