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7. If it seems good to thee peace, friendship and adu-
lation, listen, look on, and remain silent.
8. Food will lure the raven from the tree.
9. If you wish to be durable [a long liver] drink
soon after [eating] an egg.
10. Should a woman but look on her left knee, she
will frame an excuse.
11 . If the messenger be of worth, the business is mi-
portant.
12. Commend the moor, but thither go not; decry
the wood, but leave it not. *
13. One nail will spoil [lame] the horse; and one
horse will spoil a team, (/z)
14. The trick above the twentieth, may spoil the
twenty tricks.
15. Should you strike either a dog or a lout, strike
home.
16. You would beguile the heron of her egg, although
both her eyes were fixed upon you. (i)
17. If I went to the brook, it was* not with the dish-
clout, {k)
18. If it were not for existence, no man could be
alive.
* Loda it mare et tienii à terra.
(A) " For want ofa nail the shoe was lost." *•' I have seen
this,'* sa}-^ Kelly, " run out to a great length ; but the meaning
is, that a little care, early bestowed, may prevent a great loss."
(i) The heron's vigilance is proverbial.
{k) This is put into the mouth of an unmarried mother as
excuse for her frailty ; and the apology is highly characterise®
that intimate connection (which for many ages obtained anr^
the Gael), of the higher classes and the lower, in the o^'
7. If it seems good to thee peace, friendship and adu-
lation, listen, look on, and remain silent.
8. Food will lure the raven from the tree.
9. If you wish to be durable [a long liver] drink
soon after [eating] an egg.
10. Should a woman but look on her left knee, she
will frame an excuse.
11 . If the messenger be of worth, the business is mi-
portant.
12. Commend the moor, but thither go not; decry
the wood, but leave it not. *
13. One nail will spoil [lame] the horse; and one
horse will spoil a team, (/z)
14. The trick above the twentieth, may spoil the
twenty tricks.
15. Should you strike either a dog or a lout, strike
home.
16. You would beguile the heron of her egg, although
both her eyes were fixed upon you. (i)
17. If I went to the brook, it was* not with the dish-
clout, {k)
18. If it were not for existence, no man could be
alive.
* Loda it mare et tienii à terra.
(A) " For want ofa nail the shoe was lost." *•' I have seen
this,'* sa}-^ Kelly, " run out to a great length ; but the meaning
is, that a little care, early bestowed, may prevent a great loss."
(i) The heron's vigilance is proverbial.
{k) This is put into the mouth of an unmarried mother as
excuse for her frailty ; and the apology is highly characterise®
that intimate connection (which for many ages obtained anr^
the Gael), of the higher classes and the lower, in the o^'
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > J. F. Campbell Collection > Mackintosh's collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familar phrases > (175) |
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| Description | Englished a-new : to which is added, 'The way to wealth,' by Benjamin Franklin. |
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| Shelfmark | Cam.1.f.21 |
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| Description | Volumes from a collection of 610 books rich in Highland folklore, Ossianic literature and other Celtic subjects. Many of the books annotated by John Francis Campbell of Islay, who assembled the collection. |
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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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