The Antiquity of Proverbs: Fifty Familiar Proverbs and Folk Sayings with Annotations and Lists of Connected Forms, Found in All Parts of the WorldG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922 - 329 pagini |
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... centuries not only by our forbears but all over the world . Some we learned were used eighteen centuries ago by Plutarch the biographer and moralist , others by Menander the poet , who died over three hundred years before Plutarch was ...
... centuries not only by our forbears but all over the world . Some we learned were used eighteen centuries ago by Plutarch the biographer and moralist , others by Menander the poet , who died over three hundred years before Plutarch was ...
Pagina 6
... centuries . THE ANCESTRY AND INFLUENCE OF PROVERBS Though many of our common sayings seem crude and even coarse to modern ears , they have an honored ancestry and have been used not only by rough and uncouth people but by the wisest and ...
... centuries . THE ANCESTRY AND INFLUENCE OF PROVERBS Though many of our common sayings seem crude and even coarse to modern ears , they have an honored ancestry and have been used not only by rough and uncouth people but by the wisest and ...
Pagina 15
... centuries ago the people of England laughed at the men of Gotham and counted them as fools . Today their children make merry over their fathers ' prejudice and repeat the nursery rhyme : " Three wise men of Gotham went to sea in a bowl ...
... centuries ago the people of England laughed at the men of Gotham and counted them as fools . Today their children make merry over their fathers ' prejudice and repeat the nursery rhyme : " Three wise men of Gotham went to sea in a bowl ...
Pagina 22
... century we would recognize many sayings no longer used even by the Jews . No more accurate portrait of life among ... centuries of the Christian era , the Jews collected a large number of aphorisms that are now found in the Talmud ...
... century we would recognize many sayings no longer used even by the Jews . No more accurate portrait of life among ... centuries of the Christian era , the Jews collected a large number of aphorisms that are now found in the Talmud ...
Pagina 28
... and eighteenth centuries and constantly repeated in conversation at the firesides and market places in the middle ages . Today they are seldom heard . This is not because the present genera- tion 28 The Antiquity of Proverbs.
... and eighteenth centuries and constantly repeated in conversation at the firesides and market places in the middle ages . Today they are seldom heard . This is not because the present genera- tion 28 The Antiquity of Proverbs.
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The Antiquity of Proverbs: Fifty Familiar Proverbs and Folk Sayings with ... Dwight Edwards Marvin Vizualizare completă - 1922 |
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according ages ALLIED PROVERBS appear Arabian bear become better bird blind called carry century child Chinese comes common crook crow Danish daughter doctor Dutch enemy English evil expression fall father fear feet fire fish follows fool French friendship Gaelic Garhwal German give given goes gold golden hand head heart Hebrew Hindustani hold honest horse Italian JOHN keep King known late Latin live London look Marathi mind Modern Greek mother mouth natural never once origin Osmanli peacock Persian phrase physician Portuguese quoted referred saying Scotch sell Spanish speak stone story swallow tail Tamil tell Telugu things thinks thou thought throw tongue true turn VARIANT PROVERBS wall whistle wise worth young