Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

271. Each woman is a brief of womankind.

Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)

A Wife, line 1

272. Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes from Clerical Life. Janet’s Repentance

273. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the French Revolution

274. Some ease it is hid sorrows to declare.

Francis Davison (fl. 1602)

Sonnet V. A Complaint

275. More liberty begets desire of more;
The hunger still increases with the store.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

The Hind and the Panther, Pt I, line 519

276. A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

The Water Babies, Ch. III