 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 494 pagine
...collections drawn from the stores of antiquity. Some difficulty has occurred in the definition. Proverbs must be distinguished from proverbial phrases, and...from sententious maxims; but as proverbs have many faces, from their miscellaneous nature, the class itself scarcely admits of any definition. When Johnson... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 462 pagine
...collections drawn from the stores of antiquity. Some difficulty has occurred in the definition. Proverbs must be distinguished from proverbial phrases, and...from sententious maxims ; but as proverbs have many faces, from their miscellaneous nature, the class itself scarcely admits of any definition. When Johnson... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 456 pagine
...collections drawn from the stores of antiquity. Some difficulty has occurred in the definition. Proverbs must be distinguished from proverbial phrases, and...from sententious maxims ; but as proverbs have many faces, from their miscellaneous nature, the class itself scarcely admits of any definition. When Johnson... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 588 pagine
...collections drawn from the stores of antiquity. Some difficulty has occurred in the detinition. Proverbs must be distinguished from proverbial phrases , and...from sententious maxims ; but as proverbs have many, faces , from their miscellaneous nature , the class itself scarcely admits of any definition. When... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pagine
...collections drawn from the Stores of antiquity. Some difficulty has occurred in the definition. Provertw must be distinguished from proverbial phrases, and from sententious maxims ; but as proverbs havr many faco, i from their miscellaneous nature, the class itself scarcelv ' admits of any definition.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1846 - 530 pagine
...collections drawn from the stores of antiquity. Some difficulty has occurred in the definition. Proverbs must be distinguished from proverbial phrases, and...from sententious maxims ; but as proverbs have many faces, from their miscellaneous nature, the class itself scarcely admits of any definition. When Johnson... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 560 pagine
...collections drawn from the stores of antiquity. Some difficulty has occurred in the definition. Proverbs must be distinguished from proverbial phrases, and...from sententious maxims ; but as proverbs have many faces, from their miscellaneous nature, the class itself scarcely admits ii any definition. When Johnson... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 566 pagine
...collections drawn from the stores of antiquity. Some difficulty has occurred in the definition. Proverbs must be distinguished from proverbial phrases, and...from sententious maxims ; but as proverbs have many faces, from their miscellaneous nature, the class itself scarcely admits of any definition. When Johnson... | |
 | William Stirling Maxwell - 1860 - 278 pagine
...English Proverbs, digested into a convenient method, for the speedy finding any one upon occasion, with short annotations ; whereunto are added local Proverbs,...exotick proverbial sentences and Scottish Proverbs, by JR, MA Cambridge, 1670. first edition ; title, 3 preliminary leaves, pp. 296. sm. 8vo. [5.9 x 3.5],—... | |
 | Andrew Henderson - 1876 - 242 pagine
...D'Israeli, who has a highly interesting and valuable paper on proverbs, truly observes that " proverbs must be distinguished from proverbial phrases, and...from sententious maxims ; but as proverbs have many faces, from their miscellaneous nature, the class itself scarcely admits of any definition. When Johnson... | |
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Proverbs must be distinguished from proverbial phrases, and from sententious maxims ; but as proverbs have many faces, from their miscellaneous nature, the class itself scarcely admits of any definition. When Johnson defined a proverb to be ' a short... 
