He here attacks the temporal power of the church with much plainness; we cannot wonder that his Adages required mutilation at Rome.
We have seen, fifty years before, a striking proof of almost mutinous indignation in the Adages of Erasmus; and I have little doubt that further evidence of it might be gleaned from the letters and writings of the learned.
There are a great many old adages in our family, and they have often got my ancestors out of trouble.
To these two lines of patronage the Adages owed their great and immediate popularity.
This account of the origin of the famousAdages of Erasmus seems in the main reasonable.
The obvious refutation lies in the great amount of work required by the Adages themselves.
He had given to the world in hisAdages a great and serious work, which was welcomed with the greatest approval by those most competent to judge.
Pythagoras drew up a collection of adages for his disciples, and Plato, Theophrastus, and Chrysippus accumulated stores of them.
But these rhyming adages do not appear to be so characteristic a feature in German proverb-lore as in some other nationalities.
Throughout the Middle Ages a great use was made, as we have seen, of these popular adages on tapestries, rings, and in fact wherever they could be employed.
While some adages decline to fit into any section, others we find might with almost equal appropriateness find a home under three or four headings.
A man who was continuously firing off adages and axioms would be as terrible an infliction as the inveterate anecdotist or the everlasting pun-producer.
When all these requirements are met we have, doubtless, an ideal proverb, but many excellent adages are current that cannot be thus bound in.
But of them I differ at this time to speake any more, intendyng by Goddes grace to make of thes adages a booke aparte.
These adages would not be accurate if one did not forget them in practise, and the professional analyst of the feminine heart had entirely forgotten them on that evening.
But between your poetry and your adages have you taken the time to write for me to that bookseller at Vienna, who owns the last copy of the pamphlet on the trial of the bandit Hafner?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
