 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1840 - 408 Seiten
...exterminating a traitor's family.) 10. Relaxation above, produces remissness below, (hi authority.) 11. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. 12. What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off. 13. Ivory is not obtained from rats'... | |
 | London missionary society - 1847 - 592 Seiten
...heart. CHINESE PROVERBS. MANY of these bear a resemblance to our Scripture Proverbs : for example — 1. "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." — See Heb. xii. 1 0, 1 1. 2. " What is whispered in the ear is often heard a hundred miles off."... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1855 - 1198 Seiten
...CHINESE PROVERBS. MANY of these bear a resemblance to our Scripture proverbs ; for example : — " The gem cannot be polished 'without friction, nor man perfected without trials ; " see Heb. xii. 1 0, 1 1 . — " What is whispered in the ear is often heard a hundred miles off... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1858 - 580 Seiten
...difficulty, to promote the development of a manly character. The Chinese have this fine proverb, " The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." There are few sights in the world more worthy of admiration than that of a man " troubled on every... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1851 - 582 Seiten
...exterminating a traitor's family.) 10. Relaxation above produces remissness below. (In authority.) The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. • 12. What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off. 13. Ivory is not obtained from... | |
 | 1852 - 800 Seiten
...(Desertion of the great by their parasites.) Relaxation above produces remissncss below. (In authority.) The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off. Ivory is not obtained from rata' -teeth.... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1857 - 442 Seiten
...exterminating a traitor's family.) 10. Relaxation above produces remissness below. (In authority.) 11. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. 12. What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off. 13. Ivory is not obtained from rats'... | |
 | 1894 - 554 Seiten
...(2) " By time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes the roll of satin."— Chinese Prmerb. (3) " The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." — Ibid. (4) " No one can cross a river in two boats." — Sikh Proverb. (5) " Nothing injures a tree... | |
 | 1905 - 330 Seiten
...on his own labor. DUTCH. Men can bear all things except good days. Great wealth brings great care. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ENGLISH. An idle brain is the devil's workshop. Time and tide wait for no man. He who puts up with... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 Seiten
...from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. — Mackenzie. this — Chinese Proverb. Never on earth calamity so great, as not to leave to ns, if rightly weighed, what... | |
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. 
