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... mean origin and attainments , who assume airs of importance , and consider themselves competent to fill some high office or station in life . A clerigo hecho de frayle , no le fies tu comadre.— " Do not trust your gossip with a ...
... mean origin and attainments , who assume airs of importance , and consider themselves competent to fill some high office or station in life . A clerigo hecho de frayle , no le fies tu comadre.— " Do not trust your gossip with a ...
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... " For every two words three blunders . " - Said of those who talk much nonsense . " He who now to sense , now nonsense leaning , " Means not , but blunders round about a meaning . " РОРЕ . A ellos padre , vos à las berzas yo à AD 9 -AD.
... " For every two words three blunders . " - Said of those who talk much nonsense . " He who now to sense , now nonsense leaning , " Means not , but blunders round about a meaning . " РОРЕ . A ellos padre , vos à las berzas yo à AD 9 -AD.
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... mean persons who are suddenly placed in high stations . Alabate cesto , que venderte quiero.- " Praise thy- self , hamper , I want to sell you . " - To suc- ceed in any undertaking , we must depend upon our own merit , and not so much ...
... mean persons who are suddenly placed in high stations . Alabate cesto , que venderte quiero.- " Praise thy- self , hamper , I want to sell you . " - To suc- ceed in any undertaking , we must depend upon our own merit , and not so much ...
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... means , that the worst men generally fare best . Ante alios vili glans ponitur optima porco . A la vaca harta , la cola hace cama.- - " A cow , with her belly full , makes her bed with her tail . " When a beast is well fed it can sleep ...
... means , that the worst men generally fare best . Ante alios vili glans ponitur optima porco . A la vaca harta , la cola hace cama.- - " A cow , with her belly full , makes her bed with her tail . " When a beast is well fed it can sleep ...
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... means . It alludes also to lewd old men who go dangling after women . Andar como gatos por febrero .- " To go like cats in February . " - That is , caterwauling . Andar en golondras.- " To spend one's time swal- low AN 43 AN.
... means . It alludes also to lewd old men who go dangling after women . Andar como gatos por febrero .- " To go like cats in February . " - That is , caterwauling . Andar en golondras.- " To spend one's time swal- low AN 43 AN.
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affairs agena agua alludes to persons amigo amor anda año applied asno barba better bien boca boda bolsa bread buen buena bueno buey casa ciento comer como corazon cria daugh devil diablo dinero Dios drink Echar el diablo el lobo expence fond fortune friends gallina gato give guarda hija hijo hombre honor intimates la boca labour live lleva lo que lobo lose madre mala malo mano maravedi married Mas vale mata means metaphorical ex metaphorical expression misfortune mozo muger never one's Oveja padre Palabras paño Parece parida perro piedra pierde pobre poco Poner poor proverb quiere racter reproof rich ruin Sacar sarten señor SHAK shews signifies Spain Spaniards speak thing thou tiempo tierra Tomar trae tres trifling vale viejo viene villano viña vino wine wish woman
Popular passages
Page 206 - Spanish proverb be true, that a fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's.
Page 246 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Page 28 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 165 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 306 - O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Page 68 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 88 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Page 45 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?
Page 92 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Page 83 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.