Proverbs of All NationsW. Kent & Company, 1861 - 238 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... Bien fou qui s'y fie . " " A woman changes oft : Who trusts her is right soft . " His sister , Queen Margaret of Navarre , entered the room as he was writing the ungallant couplet , and , 1 Femme rit quand elle peut , et pleure quand ...
... Bien fou qui s'y fie . " " A woman changes oft : Who trusts her is right soft . " His sister , Queen Margaret of Navarre , entered the room as he was writing the ungallant couplet , and , 1 Femme rit quand elle peut , et pleure quand ...
Pàgina 19
... bien le puede venir , que bien se puede decir . 3 Comprar cavalli e tor moglie , serra gli occhi e raccomandati a Dio . + I matrimoni sono , non come si fanno , ma come riescono . There's but ae gude wife in the country , and WOMEN ...
... bien le puede venir , que bien se puede decir . 3 Comprar cavalli e tor moglie , serra gli occhi e raccomandati a Dio . + I matrimoni sono , non come si fanno , ma come riescono . There's but ae gude wife in the country , and WOMEN ...
Pàgina 25
... bien casada , que no tiene suegra ni cuñada . Es ist keine gut Swigar , danne die einen grünen Rok an hat . • Die beste Swigar ist die auf deren Rok die Gänse waiden . 7 Se minha sogra more , buscare quem a estolle . PARENTS AND ...
... bien casada , que no tiene suegra ni cuñada . Es ist keine gut Swigar , danne die einen grünen Rok an hat . • Die beste Swigar ist die auf deren Rok die Gänse waiden . 7 Se minha sogra more , buscare quem a estolle . PARENTS AND ...
Pàgina 39
... . 4 Les absents ont toujours tort . • Absent n'est point sans coulpe , ni présent sans exouse . " Un peu d'absence fait grand bien . 2 Friends agree best at a distance- which was a 39 PRESENCE, ABSENCE, SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
... . 4 Les absents ont toujours tort . • Absent n'est point sans coulpe , ni présent sans exouse . " Un peu d'absence fait grand bien . 2 Friends agree best at a distance- which was a 39 PRESENCE, ABSENCE, SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
Pàgina 42
... stand aye on ane side . - Scotch . It demands reciprocity . " Little presents keep up 1 Obras son amores , que no buenas razones . ? Se bien me quieres , Juan , tus obras me lo diran . friendship " ( French ) ; ' and so do 42.
... stand aye on ane side . - Scotch . It demands reciprocity . " Little presents keep up 1 Obras son amores , que no buenas razones . ? Se bien me quieres , Juan , tus obras me lo diran . friendship " ( French ) ; ' and so do 42.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 66 - tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.
Pàgina 60 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars...
Pàgina 60 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Pàgina 213 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Pàgina 16 - Marriage is a desperate thing. The Frogs in JEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some Water, but they would not leap into the Well, because they could not get out again.
Pàgina 132 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Pàgina 17 - God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife; for from thence will spring all thy future good or evil. And it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once. If thy estate be good, match near home and at leisure ; if weak, far off and quickly.
Pàgina 130 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Pàgina 75 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.