The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, المجلد 1Lionel Strachey Review of reviews Company, 1905 |
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الصفحة xix
... common people , having been handed down from generation to generation ; and such of it as still persists is perhaps the cream of the best . The pungent and racy anecdote , smelling of the soil , that is told to illustrate a moral , or ...
... common people , having been handed down from generation to generation ; and such of it as still persists is perhaps the cream of the best . The pungent and racy anecdote , smelling of the soil , that is told to illustrate a moral , or ...
الصفحة xx
... common people , over many rough experiences , and has seasoned many disasters that would oth- erwise have wrought ruin and despair . At least one humor- ist of world - wide renown has sat in the President's chair , and it would not be ...
... common people , over many rough experiences , and has seasoned many disasters that would oth- erwise have wrought ruin and despair . At least one humor- ist of world - wide renown has sat in the President's chair , and it would not be ...
الصفحة xxi
... common people . Other nations have wonder - tales and the various forms of folk - lore as it is known to our friends the scientists ; but the folk - lore of the Republic con- sists almost wholly of humor , and , as it happens , it is ...
... common people . Other nations have wonder - tales and the various forms of folk - lore as it is known to our friends the scientists ; but the folk - lore of the Republic con- sists almost wholly of humor , and , as it happens , it is ...
الصفحة xxiv
... common people , the people who have made the Republic what it is , and who will continue to mold its destiny . It is well to believe in the social and commercial scheme of salvation which the American spirit has mapped out for itself ...
... common people , the people who have made the Republic what it is , and who will continue to mold its destiny . It is well to believe in the social and commercial scheme of salvation which the American spirit has mapped out for itself ...
الصفحة 13
... common sermon . For the vendue opened , and they began to buy extravagantly , notwithstanding all his cautions , and their own fear of taxes . I found the good man had thoroughly studied my Almanacks , and digested all I had dropped on ...
... common sermon . For the vendue opened , and they began to buy extravagantly , notwithstanding all his cautions , and their own fear of taxes . I found the good man had thoroughly studied my Almanacks , and digested all I had dropped on ...
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الصفحة 2 - If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself. A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
الصفحة 8 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but, after all do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent things; for they may all be blasted, without the blessing of Heaven; and, therefore, ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
الصفحة 233 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
الصفحة xxvi - Hope will die fasting. There are no Gains without Pains; then Help, Hands, for I have no Lands, or if I have, they are smartly taxed.
الصفحة 86 - ... fretting about it, like illtempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart,— sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
الصفحة 78 - ... population, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. They are like those little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
الصفحة 42 - Therefore prepare for bloody war ; These kegs must all be routed, Or surely we despised shall be, And British courage doubted." The royal band now ready stand, All ranged in dread array, sir, With stomach stout to see it out, And make a bloody day, sir. The cannons roar from shore to shore, The small arms make a rattle ; Since wars began, I'm sure no man E'er saw so strange a battle. The rebel dales, the rebel vales, With rebel trees surrounded, The distant wood, the hills and floods, With rebel...
الصفحة 10 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too match for his whistle. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
الصفحة xxv - ... as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
الصفحة 29 - I turned my head from them to an old grey-headed one who was single on another leaf, and talking to himself. Being amused with his soliloquy, I put it down in writing, in hopes it will likewise amuse her to whom I am so much indebted for the most pleasing of all amusements, her delicious company and heavenly harmony.