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 |
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Page iii
... spirit and origin of the Old Sayings . Besides , there are persons so fastidious as to refrain from quoting a proverb in plain English , who would not scruple to use it in the Latin , Ita- lian , French , or Spanish languages . F To ...
... spirit and origin of the Old Sayings . Besides , there are persons so fastidious as to refrain from quoting a proverb in plain English , who would not scruple to use it in the Latin , Ita- lian , French , or Spanish languages . F To ...
Page vi
... spirit , and intelligence , " as Lord Bacon observes , but their customs , domestic avocations , and natural scenery . How easy it is , for example , to collect the condition of the ancient Gael from their short sayings and apothegms ...
... spirit , and intelligence , " as Lord Bacon observes , but their customs , domestic avocations , and natural scenery . How easy it is , for example , to collect the condition of the ancient Gael from their short sayings and apothegms ...
Page vii
... spirit and idiom , not , however , without those characteristic differences which always discriminate the two nations- JOHN BULL delivering himself in his broad substantial humour and MONSIEUR in more delicate phraseology . The follow ...
... spirit and idiom , not , however , without those characteristic differences which always discriminate the two nations- JOHN BULL delivering himself in his broad substantial humour and MONSIEUR in more delicate phraseology . The follow ...
Page ix
... spirit of hostility to females ; arising , doubtless , from similar causes --- the degraded and restrict- ed state in which they lived . Women have , in all ages and countries --- excepting in one instance , resting on no great ...
... spirit of hostility to females ; arising , doubtless , from similar causes --- the degraded and restrict- ed state in which they lived . Women have , in all ages and countries --- excepting in one instance , resting on no great ...
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... spirits loses all.- Spanish . He that has no fools , knaves , nor beggars in his family , was got by a flash of lightning . He who has not bread to spare should not keep a dog.— Spanish . He hath feathered his nest , he may flee when he ...
... spirits loses all.- Spanish . He that has no fools , knaves , nor beggars in his family , was got by a flash of lightning . He who has not bread to spare should not keep a dog.— Spanish . He hath feathered his nest , he may flee when he ...
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ancient beauty belly better Bishop of Winchester Boy Bishop bread called church Cicero cuckold custom D'Israeli dead devil door drink eggs enemy England evil fair fear fire fish folly fool formerly fortune French Ghost give goes hand hang hath heart Henry VIII honour horse husband Ital Italian Julius Cæsar keep king knave knows live London lord maid man's married maxims means meat Mid-Lent Sunday morris dance mouth nature never observed pastimes persons play poor popular Poverty praise proverb Publius Syrus purse quintain quoth rich Scotch Scotland servants Skimmington Spanish Spanish proverb speak spirits Tenterden thing thou tion truth Vicar of Bray virtue Weeping Cross wife wine wisdom wise witches woman women words worse young