Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with Explanations; and Further Illustrated by Corresponding Examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages, Volume 1T. Egerton, 1814 |
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... tion was printed at Florence , in 1575 , without the name of the author . * Fortunately , the original work had been too often printed , and was too generally disseminated to be by this means suppressed . With the censures , however ...
... tion was printed at Florence , in 1575 , without the name of the author . * Fortunately , the original work had been too often printed , and was too generally disseminated to be by this means suppressed . With the censures , however ...
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... tion may appear to be , it is not sufficiently so to embrace every form of speech that has been admitted by Erasmus , and our countryman Ray , as proverbs . A few examples may make this more intelligible . A proverb frequently consists ...
... tion may appear to be , it is not sufficiently so to embrace every form of speech that has been admitted by Erasmus , and our countryman Ray , as proverbs . A few examples may make this more intelligible . A proverb frequently consists ...
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... tion , to which he was entitled by his merit . Or the adage may be thus interpreted : What is mentioned in the gross often fills the mind with surprise , which in detail would excite no emotion . If we should say of any man that he he ...
... tion , to which he was entitled by his merit . Or the adage may be thus interpreted : What is mentioned in the gross often fills the mind with surprise , which in detail would excite no emotion . If we should say of any man that he he ...
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... tion will be found to be much oftener contra- dicted than confirmed ; and almost every one's experience will tell him , that wit and judg- ment are promiscuously distributed , and fall as often to the lot of the tall and the robust as ...
... tion will be found to be much oftener contra- dicted than confirmed ; and almost every one's experience will tell him , that wit and judg- ment are promiscuously distributed , and fall as often to the lot of the tall and the robust as ...
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... addict your- self to employments that are more manly and better suited to your age and present situa- tion in life . The adage is said to be derived from from the bridegroom scattering nuts when leading his spouse to ( 108 )
... addict your- self to employments that are more manly and better suited to your age and present situa- tion in life . The adage is said to be derived from from the bridegroom scattering nuts when leading his spouse to ( 108 )
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PROVERBS CHIEFLY TAKEN FROM TH R. (Robert) 1730-1816 Bland,Desiderius D. 1536 Erasmus No preview available - 2016 |
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acquired adage ADAGIA Æsop Amyclas ancients Antisthenes apothegm applied to persons attempting Augustus Cæsar bear become better bird Cæsar censure Cicero cure danger death Demosthenes disgrace dispositions doth ears endeavour Epictetus Erasmus escape esteemed evil expected eyes fall fame favour fear follies fool fortune French frequently friends give hand hath hear Hence honour horse intimate Jupiter Juvenal king la boca labour live Lord Verulam mala malè manner Marc Anthony master means ment mind misery misfortune neighbours never nihil observed obtained occasion opinion ourselves perhaps Philip of Macedon phrase physician Plautus pleasure Plutarch poet possess proverb punishment quæ quam quid quod racter rich Romans sense servants shew Spaniards say speak story suffer Syloson tain taken tell thee thing thou thought tion told tongue vice wise young
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Page 281 - Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Page 191 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page 275 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 191 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 41 - But where to find that happiest spot below Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease...
Page 279 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below...
Page 71 - STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed; Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Page 279 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 144 - It happened at Athens, during a public representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth, that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came where they sat.
Page 35 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.