Curiosities in ProverbsG.P. Putman's sons, 1916 - 428 من الصفحات |
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... rise to our familiar maxim- " Walls have ears . " During the time of Moses people compared their mighty hunters to Nimrod and their men of character and prowess to their heroes . " " Men of old did not call the words of their sages ...
... rise to our familiar maxim- " Walls have ears . " During the time of Moses people compared their mighty hunters to Nimrod and their men of character and prowess to their heroes . " " Men of old did not call the words of their sages ...
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... rise from the " voice of the multitude . ” Solomon was a king and spoke as a king ; his counsels were not so much the counsels of a man to his fellow men as of a sovereign to his subjects . His station and wisdom gave him a wide hearing ...
... rise from the " voice of the multitude . ” Solomon was a king and spoke as a king ; his counsels were not so much the counsels of a man to his fellow men as of a sovereign to his subjects . His station and wisdom gave him a wide hearing ...
الصفحة 32
... rise at five , dine at nine , sup at five , go to bed at nine , makes a man live ninety and nine , " sometimes varying the form by saying , " To rise at six , eat at ten , sup at six , go to bed at nine , makes a man live ten times ten ...
... rise at five , dine at nine , sup at five , go to bed at nine , makes a man live ninety and nine , " sometimes varying the form by saying , " To rise at six , eat at ten , sup at six , go to bed at nine , makes a man live ten times ten ...
الصفحة 73
... rise . Failing , he took some corn in his hand and held it a short distance from its mouth , but it was in vain ; the mule was too weak to get on its feet . While the muleteer was engaged in thus coaxing his beast a neighbour passed ...
... rise . Failing , he took some corn in his hand and held it a short distance from its mouth , but it was in vain ; the mule was too weak to get on its feet . While the muleteer was engaged in thus coaxing his beast a neighbour passed ...
الصفحة 77
... rise from the following story : " Two men went to a wolf's den , when wolves still flourished in Scotland , for the purpose of carrying off the whelps . The den was in a cairn with a narrow entrance through which one of the men crept in ...
... rise from the following story : " Two men went to a wolf's den , when wolves still flourished in Scotland , for the purpose of carrying off the whelps . The den was in a cairn with a narrow entrance through which one of the men crept in ...
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