 A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them, the better they be : " but really we never remember — except perhaps at Navarino — to have heard the proverb applied to international friendships.  Calcutta Review - Page 151849Full view - About this book
 | John George Cochrane - 1845 - 642 pages
...possession of the family. — MOEAL. — Three things, says the rude old proverb : A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them, the better they be. To these things, for which a little wholesome drubbing is to be prescribed, may be added a fourth,... | |
 | India - 1849 - 618 pages
...assistance, was barely within, the range of possibility, the alarm excited by Gardanne's establishment nt Teheran must appear quite extravagant. To us it seems,...To have expected to regain the lost affections of l.lie Shah by force of arms seems to us to have been very like fatuity. To have actually carried that... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...force, and if acted upon, might lead to some embarrassment. The old rhyming proverb ,"A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them, the better they be." seems to intimate that the tide of popular opinion alwayi ran strongly in favour of physical-force... | |
 | Westminster sch - 1851 - 604 pages
...naturas : Nnx, Canis, Uxor : Quo pins fuste doles : commoda plura feront. Idem Anglkè rcdditum. " A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut tree, "The more you beat them, the better they be!" Л very true saying, as all will allow, But my wife, and my walnut tree, and my bow-wow ! [Oratore... | |
 | Jane Kennedy - 1852 - 238 pages
...have died rather than have confessed it. Some women remind one of the proverb — " A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them, the better they be." The more a man worries and plagues her, the more she seems to cling to him. It is certainly better... | |
 | 1859 - 1350 pages
...likes best what it has least reason to like, as exemplified in the couplet — A spaniel, a woman, a walnut tree, The more YOU beat them the better they be. Such a prejudice, however, unquestionably exists; and, therefore, precautions have been taken to save... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - Proverbs, Latin - 1869 - 526 pages
...Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety. Nux, asinus, mulier verbtre opus habent. " A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut tree, The more you beat 'em the better they be." " If you beat spice it will smell the sweeter." " Tis the same with common... | |
 | Miss Telfer - 1873 - 294 pages
...like beating for some things," continued Baldwin. " You know the old Kentish saw — " A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree — The more you beat them, the better they be." " I should be sincerely sorry for any one who attempted to improve me in that fashion \" responded... | |
 | Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Sir Henry Rawlinson - Asia - 1875 - 492 pages
...Gardanne's establishment at Teheran must appear quite extravagant. To an ordinary observer it would seem that if the French had really strengthened Persia...lost affections of the Shah by force of arms seems to have been very like fatuity. To have actually carried that design into execution would have been of... | |
 | sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1st bart.) - 1875 - 524 pages
...Malcolm's proposed remedy of invasion? It is affirmed, we know, of " A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut troe, The more you beat them, the better they be : " but...lost affections of the Shah by force of arms seems to have been very like fatuity. To have actually carried that design into execution would have been of... | |
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