 | André Gide - 2000 - 374 páginas
...recently) have been blown up and several sections of the city have had to be evacuated. "One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink" (found in Boswell's Johnson, 9 July 1763, where it is given as an English proverb ) ." After five o'clock... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 páginas
...to be a laborious practising lawyer; that is not in his power. For as the proverb says, 'One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink.' He may be displeased that you are not what he wishes you to be; but that displeasure will not go far.... | |
 | George Latimer Apperson - 2006 - 656 páginas
...but hecle chuse to drinke. 1763: Johnson, in Hill's Boswcll, \ 427, As the proverb says, 'One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink'. 1 830: Marryat, King's Own, ch xxxiv. 1884: J. Platt, Pn-erty, 62. 74. You may beat a horse till he... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1948 - 806 páginas
...Rudyard, "Recessional," 1897. Herculean task in some regions bitterly recalls the adage, "One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink." : We deal with four primary preceptors in modern education. These are (a) our school system (the teaching... | |
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Sir, you need not be afraid of his forcing you to be a laborious practising lawyer; that is not in his power. For as the proverb says, " One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink. 
