Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with Explanations; and Further Illustrated by Corresponding Examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages, Band 1T. Egerton, 1814 |
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... tell you , " not to teach your gran- dames to suck eggs , " for , " à bove majori discit arare minor , " the young ox learns to plow from the elder , not the elder from the young , and " El Diablo saba mucho , " the Spaniards say ...
... tell you , " not to teach your gran- dames to suck eggs , " for , " à bove majori discit arare minor , " the young ox learns to plow from the elder , not the elder from the young , and " El Diablo saba mucho , " the Spaniards say ...
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... thy voice , and that which hath wings , shall tell the matter . " The number of spies and emissaries em- ployed by Midas , king of Phrygia , who was a D 2 cruel cruel tyrant , gave occasion to the fable of Antoninus ( 35 )
... thy voice , and that which hath wings , shall tell the matter . " The number of spies and emissaries em- ployed by Midas , king of Phrygia , who was a D 2 cruel cruel tyrant , gave occasion to the fable of Antoninus ( 35 )
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... tell a secret . Malo Nodo malus quærendus Cuneus . A tough and harsh knot , is not to be at- tempted to be cut by a fine tool ; it can only be overcome by the application of a strong wedge . Great difficulties or diseases are not ...
... tell a secret . Malo Nodo malus quærendus Cuneus . A tough and harsh knot , is not to be at- tempted to be cut by a fine tool ; it can only be overcome by the application of a strong wedge . Great difficulties or diseases are not ...
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... tell him , that wit and judg- ment are promiscuously distributed , and fall as often to the lot of the tall and the ... tells us , it was in his time deemed an ill omen , if any one named a weasel when they E 4 were were setting off for ...
... tell him , that wit and judg- ment are promiscuously distributed , and fall as often to the lot of the tall and the ... tells us , it was in his time deemed an ill omen , if any one named a weasel when they E 4 were were setting off for ...
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... " Children , even when playing about you , are often more attentive to what you are saying , than to their own amusement . " Dizen los ninos en el solejar , lo que oyen a sus pa- dres G4 dres en el hogar , " they tell when abroad ( 87 )
... " Children , even when playing about you , are often more attentive to what you are saying , than to their own amusement . " Dizen los ninos en el solejar , lo que oyen a sus pa- dres G4 dres en el hogar , " they tell when abroad ( 87 )
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Seite 281 - Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Seite 191 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Seite 275 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Seite 191 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Seite 41 - But where to find that happiest spot below Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease...
Seite 279 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below...
Seite 71 - STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed; Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Seite 279 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 144 - It happened at Athens, during a public representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth, that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came where they sat.
Seite 35 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.