 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pagine
...all actions of our life 'tis most meddled with by other people. " 2. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in JEsop were extremely wise ; they had...into the well because they could not get out again." " Measure of Things. " 1. We measure from ourselves, and as things are for our use and purpose, so... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pagine
...with by other people. — Marriage. Marriage is a desperate thing : the frogs in .iEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they...into the well, because they could not get out again. — Ibid. Money makes a man laugh. — Money. 'Tis a vain thing to talk of a heretic ; for a man for... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pagine
...meddled with by other people. . . . Marriage is indeed a desperate thing: the frogs in ^Esop were extreme wise; they had a great mind to some water, but they...into the well, because they could not get out again. Oracles. — Oracles ceased presently after Christ, as soon as nobody believed them : just as we have... | |
 | William Barnet Phillips - 1866 - 370 pagine
...are always courting it. He was like the frogs in y£sop, which had a great mind to some water, but would not leap into the well because they could not get out again. He admired women, but he was not the man to make a marriage leap. Whenever Lanabere was not with Miss... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pagine
...modest odors. Middleton. A DESPERATE THING. Marriage is a desperate thing : the frogs in Л2яор were extremely wise; they had a great mind to some...into the well, because they could not get out again. Seiden. EFFECTS OP. Marriage, indeed, may qualify the fury of his passion; but it very rarely mends... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pagine
...in butt to get out again." " Marriage is a desperate thing," says old Seiden : " the frogs in /Esop were extremely wise ; they had a great mind to some...into the well, because they could not get out again." The French say, " Wedlock ridus in the saddle, and repentance on the croup," which recalls the joke... | |
 | James Kirby - 1893 - 432 pagine
...type, In his "Table Talk," he calls marriage "a desperate thing." " The frogs in yEeop," he says, " were extremely wise. They had a great mind to some...but they would not leap into the well because they knew they could not get out." This is rank misogyny. Even Lord Campbell contemplated a solitary old... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pagine
...Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. — Shakespeare. Marriage is a desperate thing ; the frogs in JEsop were extremely wise ; they had...into the well, because they could not get out again. Selden. A world-without-end bargain. — Shakespeare. It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as... | |
 | 1899 - 704 pagine
...comes unawares, like a soot-drop. Irith Pr. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in3o1 .Жзор were extremely wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap ¡uto the well, because they could not get out again. Schien. Marriage is the best state for man in... | |
 | 1901 - 440 pagine
...every other contract ; God commands me to keep it when I have made it. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in JEsop were extremely wise ; they had...into the well because they could not get out again. We single out particulars, and apply God's providence to them. Thus when two are married and have undone... | |
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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. 
