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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... true , because they are all sentences drawn from ex- perience itself , the mother of all the sciences . " LAVA- TER , in his Aphorisms , says , that " the proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets , on the roads , and in the ...
... true , because they are all sentences drawn from ex- perience itself , the mother of all the sciences . " LAVA- TER , in his Aphorisms , says , that " the proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets , on the roads , and in the ...
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... true in the degraded soil of Italy , but the names of a Chatham , Burke , Fox , Pitt , and Erskine , render its application doubtful in England . A good name is better than riches . A glass of water is sometimes worth a ton of wine ...
... true in the degraded soil of Italy , but the names of a Chatham , Burke , Fox , Pitt , and Erskine , render its application doubtful in England . A good name is better than riches . A glass of water is sometimes worth a ton of wine ...
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... breeds mischief to the first , misery to the second , and horns to the third . A man knows no more to any purpose than he practises . A place at court is a continual bribe . A true reformation must begin at the upper end . SELECT PROVERBS.
... breeds mischief to the first , misery to the second , and horns to the third . A man knows no more to any purpose than he practises . A place at court is a continual bribe . A true reformation must begin at the upper end . SELECT PROVERBS.
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... true reformation must begin at the upper end . Windham used to say , " it was the lower end that was most cor- rupt , and reformation ought to begin there . " We cannot decide . A plaister is a small amends for a broken head . A stumble ...
... true reformation must begin at the upper end . Windham used to say , " it was the lower end that was most cor- rupt , and reformation ought to begin there . " We cannot decide . A plaister is a small amends for a broken head . A stumble ...
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... true friend should be like a privy , open in necessity.— Scotch . A wild goose never laid a tame egg . — Irish . A wilful man should be very wise . - Scotch . A white glove often conceals a dirty hand . — Ital . A word before is worth ...
... true friend should be like a privy , open in necessity.— Scotch . A wild goose never laid a tame egg . — Irish . A wilful man should be very wise . - Scotch . A white glove often conceals a dirty hand . — Ital . A word before is worth ...
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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.