A Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations, Comprising Idioms, Proverbs, Maxims, Mottoes, Technical Words and Terms, Press Allusions... from the Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese... with English Translations & Equivalents, Ed. with NotesHugh Percy Jones J. Grant, 1908 - 532 pages |
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... better than the more familiar words of our mother tongue . It might be thought by some that this borrowing from languages not our own is sometimes carried to excess . Still , the fact remains that very many phrases from foreign ...
... better than the more familiar words of our mother tongue . It might be thought by some that this borrowing from languages not our own is sometimes carried to excess . Still , the fact remains that very many phrases from foreign ...
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... better than anything else , illustrate a nation's peculiar habit of thought . It will , doubtless , be interesting to many to find the same or a similar proverb possessed by many nations , a fact which may well be taken to confirm the ...
... better than anything else , illustrate a nation's peculiar habit of thought . It will , doubtless , be interesting to many to find the same or a similar proverb possessed by many nations , a fact which may well be taken to confirm the ...
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... better to endure blame at the hands of the critics , than to say anything that the people might not understand . ” The motto of a compiler of a dictionary of quotations must necessarily be that of Molière : Je prends mon bien où je le ...
... better to endure blame at the hands of the critics , than to say anything that the people might not understand . ” The motto of a compiler of a dictionary of quotations must necessarily be that of Molière : Je prends mon bien où je le ...
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... better than chickens to - morrow . ) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush . To what damage . * To be further considered . To the thing , point , purpose . ( Attached by law to the soil . ) Origi nally a class of Roman serfs ...
... better than chickens to - morrow . ) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush . To what damage . * To be further considered . To the thing , point , purpose . ( Attached by law to the soil . ) Origi nally a class of Roman serfs ...
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... better than riches . ( It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep , not to flay them . ) Taxation should be imposed with due discretion . He hurts the good who spares the bad . ( A benefit done to the good is never lost ...
... better than riches . ( It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep , not to flay them . ) Taxation should be imposed with due discretion . He hurts the good who spares the bad . ( A benefit done to the good is never lost ...
Common terms and phrases
amigo amor autres avoir better bien bird bonne Bruyère c'est casa Cicero cœur Dante death deux Dieu Dios être Euripides evil eyes faire fait faut femme fool fortune French give Goethe grand Greek happy heart Heaven hombre homme honour Horace jamais jour king l'amour l'homme l'on La Rochefoucauld live Lope de Vega man's Menander Metastasio mieux mind Molière monde mort Motto n'est never nihil omnia one's Ovid Perez peut poco poet prend Publius Syrus qu'il qu'on qu'un quæ quam quod rien Rochefoucauld Roman saying semper Simonides of Ceos Sophocles souvent speak thee things thou Tirso de Molina tout truth vaut veut Victor Hugo virtue wise woman words ἂν γὰρ δὲ ἐκ ἐν καὶ μὲν μὴ οἱ οὐ οὐκ τὰ τε τὴν τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τῶν ὡς
Popular passages
Page 77 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 73 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 340 - ... tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
Page 370 - Ich sag es dir: ein Kerl, der spekuliert, Ist wie ein Tier, auf dürrer Heide Von einem bösen Geist im Kreis herumgeführt, Und rings umher liegt schöne grüne Weide.
Page 24 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 323 - He who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day.
Page 383 - Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig.
Page 34 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 150 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Page 159 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.