| Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - Cheshire (England) - 1906 - 418 pages
...Learning is there to make their living on. An earlier Henry Holcroft, in 1742, recorded in it that A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. A still earlier possessor used Shelton's zeiglographic or shorthand, and lets us know that on August... | |
| Abraham J. Baughman - Ashland County (Ohio) - 1909 - 342 pages
...and then small hand. The teachers made pens and set copy. For the latter quaint precepts were used: "A Man of Words, and not of Deeds, is like a Garden full of Weeds." "Command you may your Mind from Play." "Desire Wisdom from Experience," etc. Windows were made in the... | |
| Arnold B. Cheyney - Education - 1982 - 128 pages
...are a couple of examples to read aloud. Many other rhyming words can be found in Appendix Item 39. A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. Rain, rain, go away, Come again another duy. Meter The pattern of a poem's rhythm is its meter. Formal... | |
| 1904 - 162 pages
...your Wife and Sister, and good wishes to the whole fire side. — From your obed. FRAN. A. DUNLOP. A man of words and not of Deeds Is like a Garden full of weeds, And when the Weeds begin to Blow Looks like a Garden full of Snow, But when the Snow begins to melt What chilling Disappointment's... | |
| Herman Jensen - Literary Collections - 1993 - 530 pages
...not fill the belly." 2348. sjff&gnua Quv&gxw eueaea&iQear. He is quite a hero in talk and abuse. " A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. For when the weeds begin to grow, then doth the garden overflow." 2349. ejtUSif ^yssirtu &fS$(3j ^gj^oir?... | |
| Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - Religion - 1993 - 241 pages
...pucker up their Noses as if they smelt a Stink." The old proverb, Franklin noted, used to go like this: A Man of Words and not of Deeds, Is like a Garden full of Weeds. The Calvinist theologians prefer a revised version: A Man of Deeds and not of Words Is like a Garden... | |
| Bob Phillips - Quotations, English - 1993 - 372 pages
...seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain If man had created man he would be ashamed... | |
| Emanuel Strauss - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 644 pages
...deeds is like a garden full of weeds b) troska mniej boli, gdyjaprzyjacielpodzieli 392 English: a) a man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds b) easier said than done c) it is better to do well than say well d) it is easier to ridicule than... | |
| Sara Covin Juengst - Religion - 1996 - 120 pages
...the perverse; the cautious will keep far from them. —Proverbs 22:5 Life is thorny. — Coleridge A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. — Anonymous Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll overgrow... | |
| Maria Bryan Harford Connell - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 458 pages
...tired of his spouting at last, and said, "Miles, you remind me of the copy I used to write at school: 'A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds."' thing. You are such a sharper. You are as keen as a two edged sword and you can get round any one in... | |
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