| Thomas Fuller - 1732 - 320 str.
...Houfe wife's 6425 No more Mortar, no more Brick : A crafty Knave has a cunning Trick. 6426 It weuld make a Man fcratch where it doth not itch, To fee a Man live poor to die rich. 6427 He that hath more Smocks, than Shirts in a Bucking ; Had need be a Man of a good fore-looking.... | |
| John Ray - 1818 - 318 str.
...garnie di cervo. Ital. To travel safely through the world a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a barfs legs. It would make a man scratch where it doth not itch, To see a man live poor to die rich.... | |
| Scottish proverbs - 1832 - 628 str.
...man, keep thy wife. To travel safely through the world, a man would require, A falcon's eye, An ass's ears, An ape's face, A merchant's words, A camel's back, A hog's mouth, And a hart's legs. From the Italian. USEFUL EXTRACTS THE WORKS OF THOS. TUSSER : Lond. 1573. Properties of the Winds at... | |
| Frederick James Furnivall - 1868 - 746 str.
...for the Cow's : " To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's cars, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs." Boh/i's Handbook of Proverbs, p. 1U6. p. 21, 1. 40-8. Dos d'ftsne, oreilles de varhe. Cotgrave makes... | |
| William Blanchard Jerrold - 1874 - 128 str.
...probabilities certainties. To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs. To weep overmuch for the dead, is to affront the living. To what place can the ox go where he must... | |
| Andrew Henderson - 1876 - 242 str.
...man, keep thy wife. To travel safely through the world, a man would require, A falcon's eye, An ass's ears, An ape's face, A merchant's words, A camel's back, A hog's mouth, And a hart's legs. From the Italian. USEFUL EXTRACTS FROM THE WORKS OF THOS. TUSSER : Lond. 1573. Properties of the Winds... | |
| Edward Arber - 1877 - 668 str.
...travel safely through the world ; it behoveth him to have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, a monkey's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a deer's feet." Sir HENRY WOTTON, in his Letters, mentions twice the answer that was given to him by... | |
| William Carew Hazlitt - 1882 - 586 str.
...quick, or to the quick. To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs. Compare Kigime four tons Servilevrs, p. 21, line 41 (apuJ Furtiivall's Batea Book, &c., 1868) :—... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1899 - 646 str.
...or to the quick, 175. To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon s eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs, 196. To trot like a doe, 60. To turn cat-in-pan, 181. To turn over a new leaf, 181. To turn the canes... | |
| 1903 - 500 str.
...travel safely through the world ; it behoveth him to have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, a monkey's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a deer's feet." Sir HENRY WOTTON, in his Letters, mentions twice the answer that was given to him by... | |
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