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75. A dog yelis not when lilt with a bone.
76. Whoever is to blame, it is I who am hurt violently.
77. He regards him no more than an old horse does
his sire.
78. The close of the day is not less [pleasing] to God,
than its commencement.
79. As weary of it as the frog v.as ever of the har-
row.
80. The luscious [licked] finger will never make but-
ter, nor will the glutton make cheese.
81. The foaPs share of the harrow [or hurdle].
82. How disshnilar the mode of wooing, and desert-
ing a wife !
83. There is no smoke in a lark's house.
84«. Buy [only] what you need ; but sell as you may.
85. He bought it not ; i, e. he inherits it.
86. She's no fool's choice, {i)
87. Two will observe better than one.
88. The vanity is not in the M'eb [cloth] ; but in the
man who buys it. {k)
89. You were never without your food in the mill. (I)
90. It is but a cow without horns that is dun ; and a
dun cow without horns, (m)
91. A friend's counsel, unasked, is never regarded as
it ought to be.
92. Your ti'avail is not that of a cow in calf, nor a
good yearling.
93. You were not within vvhen [common] sense was
distributed.
(i) " She's not to be made a song of." — Kelly*s Prov,
( ÌC) '^ It's not the grey coat makes the gentleman/' — Rai/s
Frov.
(/) The poor hang up their ineal-br.g3 in the mill.
{vi) i. e. Six of the one and half a dozen in the other— a di;?*
tinction ^ithovst a difference.
75. A dog yelis not when lilt with a bone.
76. Whoever is to blame, it is I who am hurt violently.
77. He regards him no more than an old horse does
his sire.
78. The close of the day is not less [pleasing] to God,
than its commencement.
79. As weary of it as the frog v.as ever of the har-
row.
80. The luscious [licked] finger will never make but-
ter, nor will the glutton make cheese.
81. The foaPs share of the harrow [or hurdle].
82. How disshnilar the mode of wooing, and desert-
ing a wife !
83. There is no smoke in a lark's house.
84«. Buy [only] what you need ; but sell as you may.
85. He bought it not ; i, e. he inherits it.
86. She's no fool's choice, {i)
87. Two will observe better than one.
88. The vanity is not in the M'eb [cloth] ; but in the
man who buys it. {k)
89. You were never without your food in the mill. (I)
90. It is but a cow without horns that is dun ; and a
dun cow without horns, (m)
91. A friend's counsel, unasked, is never regarded as
it ought to be.
92. Your ti'avail is not that of a cow in calf, nor a
good yearling.
93. You were not within vvhen [common] sense was
distributed.
(i) " She's not to be made a song of." — Kelly*s Prov,
( ÌC) '^ It's not the grey coat makes the gentleman/' — Rai/s
Frov.
(/) The poor hang up their ineal-br.g3 in the mill.
{vi) i. e. Six of the one and half a dozen in the other— a di;?*
tinction ^ithovst a difference.
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Early Gaelic Book Collections > Blair Collection > Mackintosh's collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familar phrases > (63) |
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Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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