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... Teaching - Necessity has no Law — The Peck of Dirt - Howl with the Wolves - Sarcasm in Proverbs- The Fool - Selfishness - The Praise of Truth - The Value of Time - Death - The Conduct of Life - Occupations that supply Proverbs - The ...
... Teaching - Necessity has no Law — The Peck of Dirt - Howl with the Wolves - Sarcasm in Proverbs- The Fool - Selfishness - The Praise of Truth - The Value of Time - Death - The Conduct of Life - Occupations that supply Proverbs - The ...
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... teaching the same lesson in the formula , " Owls to Athens , " the woods of Attica yielding these birds in abundance , while the city itself , under the special guardianship of Pallas Athene , had , as its device and symbol , on its ...
... teaching the same lesson in the formula , " Owls to Athens , " the woods of Attica yielding these birds in abundance , while the city itself , under the special guardianship of Pallas Athene , had , as its device and symbol , on its ...
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... teaching . Hazlitt affirms that this popular diction is " an expression or combina- tion of words conveying a truth to the mind by a figure , periphrasis , antithesis , or hyperbole . " Here , again , the soundness of the teaching is ...
... teaching . Hazlitt affirms that this popular diction is " an expression or combina- tion of words conveying a truth to the mind by a figure , periphrasis , antithesis , or hyperbole . " Here , again , the soundness of the teaching is ...
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... teaching , for example , of some of our ancient adages . If we take , for instance , so well recognised a proverb as Honesty is the best policy , " some persons will see in it a mine of shrewd wisdom , while others will decide that the ...
... teaching , for example , of some of our ancient adages . If we take , for instance , so well recognised a proverb as Honesty is the best policy , " some persons will see in it a mine of shrewd wisdom , while others will decide that the ...
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... sary brevity often makes the teaching one - sided , as the various limitations and exceptions that may be neces- sary to a complete statement of a truth are perforce left 66 unsaid . One proverb therefore is often in direct PROVERB LORE 9.
... sary brevity often makes the teaching one - sided , as the various limitations and exceptions that may be neces- sary to a complete statement of a truth are perforce left 66 unsaid . One proverb therefore is often in direct PROVERB LORE 9.
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Page 122 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 263 - 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 263 - 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 179 - 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.
Page 242 - What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 239 - 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 : The naked Negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country,...
Page 242 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Page 223 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep...
Page 159 - Among others came in before him an old man with a white head, and one that was thought to be little less than a hundred years old.
Page 199 - If thou hast understanding, answer thy neighbour; if not, lay thy hand upon thy mouth. Honour and shame is in talk: and the tongue of man is his fall. Be not...