Proverbs and Their Lessons Being the Subject of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and Elsewhere

Then, besides this derivation from elder sources, from the literature of nations which as such now no longer exist, besides this process in which a people are merely receivers a...

Sometimes in their subtle observation of life, they arrive at conclusions which we would very willingly question or reject, but to which it is impossible to refuse a certain amo...

It would be interesting to collect, as with reverence one might, variations on scriptural proverbs or sayings, which the proverbs of this world supply; and this, both in those c...

And in all this which has been urged lies, as it seems to me, the explanation of a sentence of an ancient grammarian, which at first sight appears to contain a bald absurdity, n...

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Let me further invite you to observe and to admire the prevailing tone of manliness which pervades the great body of the proverbs of all nations: let me urge you to take note ho...

[35] Æschylus, _Prom. Vinct._ 322; Euripides, _Bacch._ 795; Pindar, _Pyth._ 2. 94-96. The image is of course that of the stubborn ox, which when urged to go forward, recalcitrat...

Let me quote another illustration of the same fact. We probably take for granted that _Coals to Newcastle_ is a thoroughly English expression of the absurdity of sending to a pl...

[102] It is Huss who, denouncing the sins of the clergy of his day, has preserved this proverb for us: Malum proverbium contra nos confinxerunt, dicentes, Si offenderis clericum...

I would not hesitate to say that the great glory of proverbs in this their highest aspect, and that which makes many of them so full of blessing to those who cordially accept th...

In a world of absolute truth, every name would be the exact utterance of the thing or person that bore it; but in our world not every Irenæus is peaceable, nor every Blanche a b...