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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... thing should be wanting in this collection , I have added , 1. Local proverbs , with their explications , out of Dr. Th . Fuller's work of the Worthies of England , adding thereto such others as came to my hands or memory since the ...
... thing should be wanting in this collection , I have added , 1. Local proverbs , with their explications , out of Dr. Th . Fuller's work of the Worthies of England , adding thereto such others as came to my hands or memory since the ...
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... thing to make a dearth one's garner . Death keeps no calendar . Men fear death as children to go in the dark . Better to go to bed supperless than to get up in debt . Span . He that gets out of debt , grows rich . Deeds are fruits ...
... thing to make a dearth one's garner . Death keeps no calendar . Men fear death as children to go in the dark . Better to go to bed supperless than to get up in debt . Span . He that gets out of debt , grows rich . Deeds are fruits ...
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... thing I undertake . It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it . A fat house - keeper makes lean executors , A fat kitchen , a lean will . - Ital . tamento . Grassa cucina magro tes- Every one basteth the fat hog ...
... thing I undertake . It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it . A fat house - keeper makes lean executors , A fat kitchen , a lean will . - Ital . tamento . Grassa cucina magro tes- Every one basteth the fat hog ...
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... thing is soon snatched up . A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning . Mieux vaut un poing de ... things grow in the garden that were never there . The groundsel speaks not save what it heard of the hinges . He who is a ...
... thing is soon snatched up . A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning . Mieux vaut un poing de ... things grow in the garden that were never there . The groundsel speaks not save what it heard of the hinges . He who is a ...
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... thing , and he that rides him another . Lend thy horse for a long journey , thou mayest have him return with his skin . All things are soon prepared in a well - ordered house . The foot on the cradle , and hand on the distaff , is the ...
... thing , and he that rides him another . Lend thy horse for a long journey , thou mayest have him return with his skin . All things are soon prepared in a well - ordered house . The foot on the cradle , and hand on the distaff , is 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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