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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... fortune . French - Chacun est artisan de sa fortune . Every one's faults are not written in their forehead . Every tub must stand upon its own bottom . Every thing hath an end , and a pudding has two . Every one knows how to find fault ...
... fortune . French - Chacun est artisan de sa fortune . Every one's faults are not written in their forehead . Every tub must stand upon its own bottom . Every thing hath an end , and a pudding has two . Every one knows how to find fault ...
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... Fortune sometimes favours those whom she afterwards de- stroys .- . Ital . Forbid a fool a thing and that he'll do . - Scotch . Forewarned , fore - armed . Lat . - Præmonitus , præmunitus . For my own pleasure , as the man strake his ...
... Fortune sometimes favours those whom she afterwards de- stroys .- . Ital . Forbid a fool a thing and that he'll do . - Scotch . Forewarned , fore - armed . Lat . - Præmonitus , præmunitus . For my own pleasure , as the man strake his ...
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... fortune pipes .-- Ital . He that hath no money needeth no purse . He gets a great deal of credit who pays but a small debt . -Ital . He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance , when fools pipe he may dance . He that chastiseth one ...
... fortune pipes .-- Ital . He that hath no money needeth no purse . He gets a great deal of credit who pays but a small debt . -Ital . He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance , when fools pipe he may dance . He that chastiseth one ...
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... make differences in our individual fortunes , and social condition . I cannot see how the advocates of the natural equality of mankind can get over this distinction . Name not a rope in his house that hanged himself OF ALL NATIONS . 43.
... make differences in our individual fortunes , and social condition . I cannot see how the advocates of the natural equality of mankind can get over this distinction . Name not a rope in his house that hanged himself OF ALL NATIONS . 43.
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... fortune . - Gaelic . One is not so soon healed as hurt . One cannot fly without wings . - French . One may support any thing better than too much ease and prosperity . - Italian . There cannot be greater slavery than to have too little ...
... fortune . - Gaelic . One is not so soon healed as hurt . One cannot fly without wings . - French . One may support any thing better than too much ease and prosperity . - Italian . There cannot be greater slavery than to have too little ...
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