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 Plan ...John Wade |
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Page xiii
... dead wife's the best goods in a man's house . " One would fain hope this is not the wisdom of ex- perience , but the consequence of the unfortunate situ- ation of females ; affording a further illustration of the history of society from ...
... dead wife's the best goods in a man's house . " One would fain hope this is not the wisdom of ex- perience , but the consequence of the unfortunate situ- ation of females ; affording a further illustration of the history of society from ...
Page xvii
... Dead men do not bite . " This fatal truth has sealed the doom of many an un- happy wretch , by determining the last resolve of the traitor , burglar , and assassin . We cannot look into the annals of crime , or the page of history ...
... Dead men do not bite . " This fatal truth has sealed the doom of many an un- happy wretch , by determining the last resolve of the traitor , burglar , and assassin . We cannot look into the annals of crime , or the page of history ...
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... dead , and friends afar , farewell . Child's pig but father's bacon . Alluding to the promises which parents sometimes make to their children , and which they fail to perform . Charity begins at home . Children and fools speak the truth ...
... dead , and friends afar , farewell . Child's pig but father's bacon . Alluding to the promises which parents sometimes make to their children , and which they fail to perform . Charity begins at home . Children and fools speak the truth ...
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... dead fish are nae keeping ware . - Scotch . Day and night , sun and moon , air and light , every one must have , and none can buy . Deaf men go away with the injury . Dead men do not bite . - Scotch . Death is deaf and hears no denial ...
... dead fish are nae keeping ware . - Scotch . Day and night , sun and moon , air and light , every one must have , and none can buy . Deaf men go away with the injury . Dead men do not bite . - Scotch . Death is deaf and hears no denial ...
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... dead men's shoes may go long enough barefoot . He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolves . He that will have no trouble in this world must not be born in it . He is an ill guest that never drinks to his host . He that ...
... dead men's shoes may go long enough barefoot . He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolves . He that will have no trouble in this world must not be born in it . He is an ill guest that never drinks to his host . He that ...
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Page 157 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Page 190 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Page 156 - He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Page 177 - Do smoak all about, The cooks are providing For dinner, no doubt; But those on whose tables No victuals appear, O may they keep Lent All the rest of the year ! With holly and ivy So green and so gay ; We deck up our houses As fresh as the day, With bays and rosemary, And laurel compleat, And every one now Is a king in conceit.
Page 170 - Burning the nuts is a famous charm. They name the lad and lass to each particular nut, as they lay them in the fire, and accordingly as they burn quietly together, or start from beside one another, the course and issue of the courtship will be.
Page 89 - For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Page 166 - The quintain thus fashioned was placed upon a pivot, and so contrived as to move round with facility. In running at this figure it was necessary for the horseman to direct his lance with great adroitness, and make his stroke upon the forehead between the eyes or upon the nose ; for if he struck wide of those parts...
Page 172 - THE passing bell was anciently rung for two purposes ; one, to bespeak the prayers of all good Christians for a soul just departing; the other, to drive away the evil spirits who stood at the bed's foot and about the house, ready to seize their prey, or at least to molest and terrify the soul in its passage...
Page 159 - Business; but to these we must add Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly successful. A Man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
Page 159 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.