Proverbial Folk-loreR.J. Clark, printer, High street, 1875 - 173 من الصفحات |
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... Italians , -all good advice is well worth attending to , — ' i proverbj son tutti provati , ' much more that of Proverbs , which is advice already tested ! I am your attached friend , THE AUTHOR . " I gave some years ago to Sir James ...
... Italians , -all good advice is well worth attending to , — ' i proverbj son tutti provati , ' much more that of Proverbs , which is advice already tested ! I am your attached friend , THE AUTHOR . " I gave some years ago to Sir James ...
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... Italy , whenever I ventured to remonstrate with one of King Bomba's officials . ' I will , Because I will ! ' And so in the stern old Latin . Hoc volo , sic jubeo , stet pro ratione voluntas . which we may thus paraphrase My will is my ...
... Italy , whenever I ventured to remonstrate with one of King Bomba's officials . ' I will , Because I will ! ' And so in the stern old Latin . Hoc volo , sic jubeo , stet pro ratione voluntas . which we may thus paraphrase My will is my ...
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... Italians have a singular manner of classification , Long and lazy , Little and loud , Fair and foolish , Dark and proud . Proverbs are rather hard upon little people . A little pot Is soon hot . However that ' very short young lady ...
... Italians have a singular manner of classification , Long and lazy , Little and loud , Fair and foolish , Dark and proud . Proverbs are rather hard upon little people . A little pot Is soon hot . However that ' very short young lady ...
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... Italian legend , the devil , also at one time , wished for a wind of his Not being able to prevail with any saint to part with his property , he proceeded to take it , stealing a piece of the North and a piece of the East ; which , when ...
... Italian legend , the devil , also at one time , wished for a wind of his Not being able to prevail with any saint to part with his property , he proceeded to take it , stealing a piece of the North and a piece of the East ; which , when ...
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... Italians warn us Bellezza e follia Son'soven ' in compagnia . Pretty fools are no ways rare , Wise men will of such beware . Another warning is this Marry above your match , and you get your master . D That house doth every day more ...
... Italians warn us Bellezza e follia Son'soven ' in compagnia . Pretty fools are no ways rare , Wise men will of such beware . Another warning is this Marry above your match , and you get your master . D That house doth every day more ...
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الصفحة 165 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
الصفحة 61 - 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 106 - Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure ; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
الصفحة 118 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
الصفحة 109 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
الصفحة 25 - ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
الصفحة 94 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it.
الصفحة 93 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
الصفحة 123 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
الصفحة 52 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'