Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
271. Each woman is a brief of womankind.
A Wife, line 1
272. Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Scenes from Clerical Life. Janet’s Repentance
273. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
On the French Revolution
274. Some ease it is hid sorrows to declare.
Sonnet V. A Complaint
275.
More liberty begets desire of more;
The hunger still increases with the store.
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.
The Water Babies, Ch. III