Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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20 Gabhaidh 'm fiaich, is cha ghabh a chlach.
Ga dubh am fitchich 's geal leis ileum
Gabh an la math fad 'fa gheibh thu c.
Oeailaidh am fear feumach, a ni breùgach nacb faigh e \
Saolaidh 'm fear fanndach, gach ni gheallar gu'ra
faighear.
Gheibhir deire gach fgeoil a nafgaidh.
25 Gheibh pronnan mar phronase, is gheibh Ionian -an
lorn dhonas.
Ge d' nach duin* an t aodach, cha duin 7 a bhios as
cugmhais.
Gaoire 11a caillich *sa chùil dlanaich.
Ga cruaidh fcarachduin, cha robh dithis gun deal-
acha.
Gach'diùiras gu deire*
30 Gach fear na ghreum.
Glas labhradh air inghean gun fhios; teangaidh-
sbhra dh } iomraicheas.
Ge d'thug thu bèum dha, cha d ; thug thu mir dha.
Gream na h eafgain air a h-earr. (r)
Gabhadh iad do mo chrodh. fa chlodacb, nar bhios
mo bhreacan air mo ghualain, bidhidh mo bhuaile
chruidh ann. (J)
(c) Ai Ramfafs Scots Prop. Kellfs do.
(d) Meaning that the perfon has nothing to care for ;
fiaiilàr to the Latin faying, Omnia visa mecum party.
Breacan, i.e. a party coloured plaid, all tartan plaids
are fo called by the Highlanders, though they call thick
wauked .cloth of which they make coats, Highland troufe,
&c. Cath-d'ath, /'. e. the fighting colour.
Breac is a general term for any thing that is variegated,
fpoited, or party coloured, as breac, a fifth; a bhreac, the
finall-pox; fear breac, a man pitted with the fmall-pox ;
each breac, a pye ball'd horfe ; brcac-luirgnich, meazle
fliin'dj breacag, a cake, &c. &c. The. names of places in
which the word breac occurs in this ifiand are no kfs nu-
merous. Such as Braco, the Earl of Fife's title; JBraco,
and Inchbraco, in Strath Earn, above Perth; Achnambrec^.
Barbrec, in Argyle-ftiire ; Breacihiabh, a place once belong-