| Thomas Fuller - Proverbs - 1732 - 320 pages
...Houfe wife's 6425 No more Mortar, no more Brick : A crafty Knave has a cunning Trick. 6426 It weuld make a Man fcratch where it doth not itch, To fee a Man live poor to die rich. 6427 He that hath more Smocks, than Shirts in a Bucking ; Had need be a Man of a good fore-looking.... | |
| John Ray - 1818 - 318 pages
...garnie di cervo. Ital. To travel safely through the world a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a barfs legs. It would make a man scratch where it doth not itch, To see a man live poor to die rich.... | |
| Scottish proverbs - 1832 - 628 pages
...man, keep thy wife. To travel safely through the world, a man would require, A falcon's eye, An ass's ears, An ape's face, A merchant's words, A camel's back, A hog's mouth, And a hart's legs. From the Italian. USEFUL EXTRACTS THE WORKS OF THOS. TUSSER : Lond. 1573. Properties of the Winds at... | |
| Frederick James Furnivall - Education - 1868 - 746 pages
...for the Cow's : " To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's cars, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs." Boh/i's Handbook of Proverbs, p. 1U6. p. 21, 1. 40-8. Dos d'ftsne, oreilles de varhe. Cotgrave makes... | |
| William Blanchard Jerrold - 1874 - 128 pages
...probabilities certainties. To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs. To weep overmuch for the dead, is to affront the living. To what place can the ox go where he must... | |
| Andrew Henderson - Proverbs, Scottish - 1876 - 242 pages
...man, keep thy wife. To travel safely through the world, a man would require, A falcon's eye, An ass's ears, An ape's face, A merchant's words, A camel's back, A hog's mouth, And a hart's legs. From the Italian. USEFUL EXTRACTS FROM THE WORKS OF THOS. TUSSER : Lond. 1573. Properties of the Winds... | |
| Edward Arber - English literature - 1877 - 668 pages
...travel safely through the world ; it behoveth him to have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, a monkey's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a deer's feet." Sir HENRY WOTTON, in his Letters, mentions twice the answer that was given to him by... | |
| William Carew Hazlitt - Proverbs, English - 1882 - 586 pages
...quick, or to the quick. To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs. Compare Kigime four tons Servilevrs, p. 21, line 41 (apuJ Furtiivall's Batea Book, &c., 1868) :—... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Proverbs - 1899 - 646 pages
...or to the quick, 175. To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon s eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs, 196. To trot like a doe, 60. To turn cat-in-pan, 181. To turn over a new leaf, 181. To turn the canes... | |
| English literature - 1903 - 500 pages
...travel safely through the world ; it behoveth him to have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, a monkey's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a deer's feet." Sir HENRY WOTTON, in his Letters, mentions twice the answer that was given to him by... | |
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