 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pagine
...He ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. s. BEATTŒ— Tlte Minstrel. Bk. II. St. 30. He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. /. BUBTON— Anal, of Mel. Pt. HI. Sec. 2. Mem. 5. Subs. 5. Life often presents us with a choice of... | |
 | Frederick York Powell - 1882 - 104 pagine
...not praise the day till the sun is down, A wary man is a wise man. Ill beginnings have ill endings. He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. Wit and wisdom are the best of baggage. All is not gold that glitters. You may comb an ass and crop... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pagine
...Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. s. BEATTTK— Tlte Minstrel. Bk. II. St. 30. t nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which, yon noy. (. BUBTON— Ajuit. of Md. Pt III. Sec. 2. Mem. 5. Subs. 5. Life often presents us with a choice... | |
 | 1882 - 916 pagine
...valuable and interesting books must act on the principle enjoined in our old English proverb : " He who will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay." But wiser men than myself are sometimes above this — a curious instance of which has just come to... | |
 | S S. Pugh - 1883 - 296 pagine
...his intention to rebuke the dilatoriness of one debater, by the quotation of the well-known saying, "He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay," he said with utmost gravity — "He that may not when he can, will not when he shall." His "allegories... | |
 | Lolo (pseud.) - 1883 - 302 pagine
...him now. " Poor Bruce," she murmured, softly ; and then the old proverb recurred to her : " He who will not when he may, when he will, he shall have nay." " I could have loved him — I could have loved him once, when we first married," she thought. " Now,... | |
 | 1920 - 1148 pagine
...arises out of the generic principle of inconsistency. The most homespun statement of it is the couplet: "He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay." As In physics a body cannot occupy two different places at one time, so in law one cannot occupy two... | |
 | Globe - 1884 - 164 pagine
...annoyed when stupid man does not catch her meaning. Her revenge comes when she is able to tell him that " he that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.'' Of these and the many other vagaries of her sex a woman never offers any explanation. She may give... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1884 - 580 pagine
...says : " He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.". The old adage,' which tells how . " He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay," is quoted in "Antony and Cleopatra" (ii. 7) by Menas: " Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis... | |
 | G. Eugène-Fasnacht - 1884 - 196 pagine
...La rive gauche, la rive droite."—ACAD. Quarante-et-unième Leçon.—A. 9. Qui refuse, muse. — He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay ! 1. Je veux rester ici. B. 2. Je voulais que vous restiez (or, strictly, restassiez, see note i to... | |
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He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. 
