A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages, and a Complete Alphabetical IndexG. Bell and sons, 1899 - 583 psl. |
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... stand foremost in the sentence , and which is both removable and variable without any prejudice to the sense , but the first letter of the most material word , or , if there be more words equally material , of that which usually stands ...
... stand foremost in the sentence , and which is both removable and variable without any prejudice to the sense , but the first letter of the most material word , or , if there be more words equally material , of that which usually stands ...
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... stand , resolving that it was better to repeat some than to omit any . Now , whereas I understand that some proverbs , admitted in the former edition , have given offence to sober and pious per- sons , as savouring too much of obscenity ...
... stand , resolving that it was better to repeat some than to omit any . Now , whereas I understand that some proverbs , admitted in the former edition , have given offence to sober and pious per- sons , as savouring too much of obscenity ...
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... stand quiet , they have done some harm . What children hear at home , soon flies abroad . Children are poor men's riches , certain cares , but uncertain comforts ; when they are little , they make parents fools ; when great , mad . He ...
... stand quiet , they have done some harm . What children hear at home , soon flies abroad . Children are poor men's riches , certain cares , but uncertain comforts ; when they are little , they make parents fools ; when great , mad . He ...
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... stands on his guard . Every one's faults are not written on their foreheads . Better pass a danger once than be always in fear . Ital . Fear not the loss of the bell more than the loss of the steeplc . Reckon right , and February hath ...
... stands on his guard . Every one's faults are not written on their foreheads . Better pass a danger once than be always in fear . Ital . Fear not the loss of the bell more than the loss of the steeplc . Reckon right , and February hath ...
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... standing or walking after meals , viz . because the meat by that means is depressed to the bottom of the stomach , where the natural heat is most vigorous , it is very frivolous , both because the stomach is a wide vessel , and so the ...
... standing or walking after meals , viz . because the meat by that means is depressed to the bottom of the stomach , where the natural heat is most vigorous , it is very frivolous , both because the stomach is a wide vessel , and so the ...
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A handbook of proverbs Comprising an entire republ. of English proverbs ... Henry George Bohn,John Ray Visos knygos peržiūra - 1855 |
A Hand-book of Proverbs Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's ... Henry George Bohn Visos knygos peržiūra - 1855 |
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