Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated with Notes and Comments, to which is Added, a Summary of Ancient Pastimes, Holidays and Customs. With an Analysis of the Wisdom of the Ancients, and of the Fathers of the Church, the Whole Arranged on a New PlanJohn Wade P. Covert, 1825 - 216 Seiten |
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... Scotch , nor the delicacy and gaiety of the French , but we have a sprinkling of all these . What particularly distin- guishes our proverbs , is their sterling good sense : which it- self is a constellation of moral and intellectual ...
... Scotch , nor the delicacy and gaiety of the French , but we have a sprinkling of all these . What particularly distin- guishes our proverbs , is their sterling good sense : which it- self is a constellation of moral and intellectual ...
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... Scotch . A burthen which one chooses is not felt . Accusing is proving , where malice and power sit judges , A crowd is not company . A thousand probabilities do not make one truth . A blow from a frying pan , though it does not hurt ...
... Scotch . A burthen which one chooses is not felt . Accusing is proving , where malice and power sit judges , A crowd is not company . A thousand probabilities do not make one truth . A blow from a frying pan , though it does not hurt ...
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... Scotch . Alexander was below a man when he affected to be a god . A man is a man though he have but a hose upon his head . A good shape is in the shear's mouth - Scotch . A good key is necessary to enter into Paradise . - Italian . All ...
... Scotch . Alexander was below a man when he affected to be a god . A man is a man though he have but a hose upon his head . A good shape is in the shear's mouth - Scotch . A good key is necessary to enter into Paradise . - Italian . All ...
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... Scotch . A kiss of the mouth often touches not the heart . Ital .--- Bacio di bocca spesso cuor non tocca . A fool nows more in his own house than a wise man in another's . A man with his belly full is no great eater . - Spanish . A man ...
... Scotch . A kiss of the mouth often touches not the heart . Ital .--- Bacio di bocca spesso cuor non tocca . A fool nows more in his own house than a wise man in another's . A man with his belly full is no great eater . - Spanish . A man ...
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... Scotch . A mischievous cur must be tied short . - French . A man is a lion in his ain cause . - Scotch . We had some proof of this in the conduct of the Reformers , who in the latey ears defended their ' ain cause . ' There is " indeed ...
... Scotch . A mischievous cur must be tied short . - French . A man is a lion in his ain cause . - Scotch . We had some proof of this in the conduct of the Reformers , who in the latey ears defended their ' ain cause . ' There is " indeed ...
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