10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROVERBIALIST»
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proverbialist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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“The Snow-Flake,”“ “Leaflets of Memory,"" and “ The Proverbialist and the Poet,”
13 are also deserving of high commendation. The last-mentioned, especially, is a
beautifully-executed work, containing truly “ sands of gold sifted from the flood of
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The Foreign Quarterly Review
“The Snow-Flake,"“ “ Leaflets of Memory,”" and “The Proverbialist and the Poet,”"'
are also deserving of high commendation. The last-mentioned, especially, is a
beautifully—executed work, containing truly “ sands of gold sifted from the flood
of ...
Sancho, or the Proverbialist. London : Cadcll and Davies, 1816. 12mo. pp. 181. *
* You should not heap together in your conversation the multitude of proverbs
you are wont to do," said the illustrious hero of La Manchato his aspiring squire ...
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The Laird of Logan: Or, Anecdotes and Tales Illustrative of ...
_[DI'aWing' his finger up the side of his nose] I say, Bailie, when there happens to
be sae-mony bien berths about the Sultan's hand, could you no get your frien' to
write about me? I'm qualified, ye ken, either to be his painter or his proverbialist ...
John Donald Carrick, 1868
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The Laird of Logan: or Anecdotes and Tales illustrative of ...
[D1'aWll1g his finger up the side of his nose] I say, Bailie, when there happens to
be sae mony bien berths about the Sultan's hand, could you no get your frien' to
write about me? I'm qualified, ye ken, either to be his painter or his proverbialist.
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The Academy and Literature
The story of Sancho the Proverbialist is anonymous, and was written to show 'that
a large proportion of the most popular maxims are exceedingly unsafe—that
many of them have a strong tendency to create a sordid and selfish character;
that ...
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First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process
No sand without lime, no short chippy indigent epigrammatist or proverbialist with
docked sentences but an exhaustless affluence.” When his sentences work,
which is often enough, his success can be traced to his taking endless pains with
...
Robert D. Richardson, 2009
The language of the inspired proverbialist we lind to be in accordance with this
general sentiment: "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of
one's death better than the day of their birth." The remark made by a judicious ...
... spent almost the whole of our tune together. .And as tome ef mj readers way
have aem Jmu1 aa. opportunity #f nrf closely examining the life of a person who
is tl<5 Sancko,or the Pi overlialist. Cunningham, Rev J San- cho, or the
Proverbialist.
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The cassique of Kiawah: a Colonial romance
So. too, is High Life Below Stairs matter for the proverbialist. (Jolts on a common,
boys in the holidays, girls at a match or merry-making : fools all, you say. Oh,
ridiculous moralist ! throw off your cloak of wisdom for a while, as Prospero does
his ...
William Gilmore Simms, 1859
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROVERBIALIST»
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Uncomfortable History: Archimedes > Jesus
Compare Archimedes' life and death to those of the verbose proverbialist, yet somewhat charismatic, Semite known as Jesus of Nasareth, whose main ... «News24, Jul 13»
