The prose, as already intimated, is confined to groups of proverbs and familiar sayings.
What could he not have produced if, instead of gleaning and commenting upon classic Adagia, he had, for his themes, availed himself of the proverbs of the vernacular?
And was his warning against the partiality for classic proverbs and turns applicable to anything more than to the Adagia?
Bless you," said Punch in his third number, "half the proverbs given to Solomon are mine!
He published a pamphlet entitled "The Slanders of Punch" felicitously quoting as his motto from Proverbs xxvi.
You will find the same sentiment repeated in the Proverbs of Solomon.
The proverbssays that Rome was not built in a day.
Duyckinck faithfully carried out the proverbsof Franklin, and the sayings of Noah Webster’s Prompter.
Forewarned is forearmed," said he to himself, in one of the proverbs common to all nations.
The teacher must call upon his wisdom in choosing proverbs suitable for the children.
I hired him to get a Chapter of ye Proverbs & give him a penny every Sabbath day, & promised him 5 shillings when he can say them all by heart.
It is forbidden by Solomon in Proverbs 27, 2: "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.
This statement he introduces from the Proverbsof Solomon (ch.
It is on such that Solomon in the Book of Proverbs heaps his scorn.
The declaration in the book of Proverbs that "the price of a virtuous woman is set far above that of rubies" is not to be understood in the sense of irony.
Chronicles, but in the rest of the Old Testament only in Proverbs xxvii.
Etymology and proverbs are a favourite motive, and often give rise to lively and diversified tales.
The Proverbs of Solomon would scarcely claim attention had they arisen on Greek or Arabian soil; they are remarkable in their pale generality only because they are of Jewish origin.
It deals in no etymology, no proverbs nor songs, no miracles, theophanies nor dreams, and is destitute of all that many-coloured poetic charm which adorns the Jehovistic narratives.
Metrical proverbs are so numerous, that a large volume might be filled with them without much difficulty; and it is, therefore, unnecessary to say that nothing beyond a very small selection is here attempted.
Such, however, is the fact, and when Howell published his collection of Proverbsin 1659, p.
They began--and this is noteworthy--with the book of the Proverbs of Solomon; Hrofanos or Rufinus writing down the translation with his own hand.
The circumstance that Mesrop in Samosata began with the Proverbs of Solomon raises a suspicion that the earlier books had already been rendered, when and by whom is unknown.
Certainly the reasons given by Koriun and by Moses for Mesrop beginning with Proverbs are insufficient.
A Hand-Book of Proverbs, comprising an entire republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs .
English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases collected from the most authentic sources, alphabetically arranged and annotated.
What keeps him mostly in my mind, was the delight with which he entered into, and illustrated, the proverbs at the end of M.
Some of the proverbs are so applicable to Oriental manners, that I hope the reader will excuse the digression.
Therefore those who speak inproverbs say, "Come to Heshbon.
Your memorable sayings areproverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
His father was quite right about women, and he would take his advice to the letter, and begin to study Proverbs forthwith, especially the marked passages.
I especially commend your attention to certain verses in Proverbs dealing with the dangers on which I have touched, that I have marked with a blue pencil.
One of these proverbs that is probably as old as weather wisdom says: "Long foretold, long last; Short notice, soon past.
He hated women who flung texts or proverbs at you; and yet he did not hate her.
Moreover, many people quote the homely proverbs without knowing it; for Poor Richard’s wisdom became part and parcel of our English speech long ago.
He also made an attempt to render the Book ofProverbs and Ecclesiastes into the vernacular Yiddish.
Proverbs deal only with realities, generally of the most homely and every-day kind, and are always supposed to comprise the most sage advice, or the most broad worldly truth, within the least possible compass.
Now, while we admit that proverbs are for the most part true, and useful in their teaching, and that they very often inculcate excellent maxims, we must at the same time enter our protest against the infallibility of most of them.
This is one of the many instances of our homeliest proverbs in every-day use, being derived from the East.
