Persian proverbs and maxims: with their Gujarati and English equivalntsPrinted at the Education society's steam Press, 1901 - 68 pagine |
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Pagina ix - Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Pagina v - The people's voice the voice of God we call ; And what are proverbs but the people's voice ? Coined first, and current made by public choice ? Then sure they must have weight and truth withal" — that this, true in the main, will require to be taken with certain qualifications and exceptions.
Pagina 1 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Pagina viii - The genius wit and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.
Pagina vi - no man of fashion," as I think is his exact phrase, " ever uses a proverb."* And with how fine a touch of nature Shakespeare makes Coriolanus, the man who, with all his greatness, is entirely devoid of all sympathy for the people, to utter his scorn of them in scorn of their proverbs, and of their frequent employment of these...
Pagina xxiv - A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.
Pagina 7 - He that has but four, and spends five, has no need of a purse.
Pagina 36 - A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which being suffered, rivers cannot quench.
Pagina 16 - It is easy for a man in health to preach patience to the sick.