A Dictionary of Modern Greek Proverbs: With an English Translation, Explanatory Remarks, and Philological IllustrationsT. Clark, 1831 - 144 頁 |
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第 xi 頁
... interest and fa- vour ; at all events , in whatever light it may be considered , if it should prove of any utility to the Public , my intention will be fully answered , and I shall have all the recompense for my labour which I desire to ...
... interest and fa- vour ; at all events , in whatever light it may be considered , if it should prove of any utility to the Public , my intention will be fully answered , and I shall have all the recompense for my labour which I desire to ...
第 2 頁
... interest for himself . " Aygios iλeubegia . Savage liberty : -Applied to anarchy , or rather to such liberty as savages enjoy , which is established on the principle of bodily strength , and in which the weak become the prey of the ...
... interest for himself . " Aygios iλeubegia . Savage liberty : -Applied to anarchy , or rather to such liberty as savages enjoy , which is established on the principle of bodily strength , and in which the weak become the prey of the ...
第 9 頁
... interest in the wel- fare even of their nearest relations . * Αξίζει ἡ παλαιόκοττα , σαράντα πωλακίδαις . - The old hen is worth forty chickens : -There are ladies who , although old , are more attractive than many young ones . * Αξίζει ...
... interest in the wel- fare even of their nearest relations . * Αξίζει ἡ παλαιόκοττα , σαράντα πωλακίδαις . - The old hen is worth forty chickens : -There are ladies who , although old , are more attractive than many young ones . * Αξίζει ...
第 30 頁
... interests of others . Δυὸ λαγοὺς ἂν κυνηγᾷς , κ οἱ δυὸ δὲ νὰ σὲ φύγουν . If you pursue two hares , both will escape from you - To those who are distracted by a multi- plicity of pursuits , which precludes the possibility of giving that ...
... interests of others . Δυὸ λαγοὺς ἂν κυνηγᾷς , κ οἱ δυὸ δὲ νὰ σὲ φύγουν . If you pursue two hares , both will escape from you - To those who are distracted by a multi- plicity of pursuits , which precludes the possibility of giving that ...
第 43 頁
... interest in those of others , and assuming airs of patronage and pro- tection . Έσπειρε σιτάρι , κ ' ἐφύτρωσε κριθάρι.He sowed wheat , and barley sprung up : -That the inten- tion is not always to be judged of by the results 267-273 او ...
... interest in those of others , and assuming airs of patronage and pro- tection . Έσπειρε σιτάρι , κ ' ἐφύτρωσε κριθάρι.He sowed wheat , and barley sprung up : -That the inten- tion is not always to be judged of by the results 267-273 او ...
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第 48 頁 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart...
第 141 頁 - Je l'assistai dans l'indigence : II ne me rendit jamais rien. Mais quoiqu'il me dût tout son bien, Sans peine il souffrait ma présence. Oh ! la rare reconnaissance ! XVI. — Parodie de cinq vers de Chapelle4. Tout grand ivrogne du Marais Fait des vers que l'on ne lit guère.
第 113 頁 - Pericles delivered, nominally over the grave of those who had fallen in the first year of the Peloponnesian war, but really on the greatness of Athens, he considers that the city had a great claim on the gratitude and patriotism of her sons, on account of the abundant bodily and mental recreations she had provided for them.
第 139 頁 - When asked what he was going to do, he replied: "I am going to storm hell ; the soldiers are beginning to eat fire already.
第 119 頁 - ... one's eye cross-legged, and tether five elephants to the pole of a dancer. (Tamil). Should the mustache of one's aunt grow we may call her uncle. (Tamil). Teeth do not wear mourning. (Trinidad Creole). Smiles and laughter may cover a breaking heart. The blind man sought for a needle in the straw-loft, and the man with a lame hand made a basket to put it in. (Modern Greek). The distinction of big and little does not apply to snakes. (Tamil). The egg made faces at the chicken. (Telugu). Applied...
第 37 頁 - The frog flew into a passion, and the pond knew nothing about it : — To insignificant men whose expressions of wrath are disregarded by their superiors.
第 10 頁 - From a bad debtor even a bag of straw is worth having. 69> Tov (ГхиХоу xa/xE tr-jvTe%wiv xal то paf&tvw (Ьагта. Make the dog your companion, but hold fast your stao'.
第 103 頁 - When they tell you, you are drunk, hold by the wall, and go on : — It is sometimes good policy to yield to public opinion,, and act as if it were just.
第 118 頁 - At a deaf man's door, it is all one whether you knock or not; — Otherwise: '2 те? яшфви гя» З-iíçctv, KTv-ra Vívraxáffta.