The Wit and Wisdom of the HaytiansScribner & Armstrong, 1877 - 112 pages |
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... Kentucky tobacco , and eats salt fish cured in New England . Though I searched carefully I found nothing to bear away with me as a trophy of Hay- tian civilization that was wrought with Hay- tian hands , 2 WIT AND WISDOM.
... Kentucky tobacco , and eats salt fish cured in New England . Though I searched carefully I found nothing to bear away with me as a trophy of Hay- tian civilization that was wrought with Hay- tian hands , 2 WIT AND WISDOM.
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... bear the name , were the proverbs with which the creole popula- tion are accustomed to garnish their conver- sation . Proverbial forms of expression are used quite freely by all classes , but most abound in the mouths of the humble and ...
... bear the name , were the proverbs with which the creole popula- tion are accustomed to garnish their conver- sation . Proverbial forms of expression are used quite freely by all classes , but most abound in the mouths of the humble and ...
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... bear the burden of six . As the gods of the ancients were wont to visit this earth in the guise of the humblest peasants , so one of those everlasting truths , which may be said to embrace the beginning and end of human wisdom , lies ...
... bear the burden of six . As the gods of the ancients were wont to visit this earth in the guise of the humblest peasants , so one of those everlasting truths , which may be said to embrace the beginning and end of human wisdom , lies ...
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... bear his burden . Or , as the Spaniards say : Quien solo come su gallo , solo ensille su ca- ballo . Who eats his dinner alone , must saddle his horse alone . " Bear ye one another's burdens , and so fulfil the law of Christ , " so ...
... bear his burden . Or , as the Spaniards say : Quien solo come su gallo , solo ensille su ca- ballo . Who eats his dinner alone , must saddle his horse alone . " Bear ye one another's burdens , and so fulfil the law of Christ , " so ...
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... bear away your gold ; The flames may lay your princely mansion low ; Your dues a faithless debtor may withhold , Your fields may not return the grain you sow , A spendthrift steward at your cost may live ; Your loaded barks may founder ...
... bear away your gold ; The flames may lay your princely mansion low ; Your dues a faithless debtor may withhold , Your fields may not return the grain you sow , A spendthrift steward at your cost may live ; Your loaded barks may founder ...
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African ALLÉ alligator Antilles aphorism Avla baie BATTE BATTRE beset bien BOIS BON BLANC C'EST CABRITE calabash capabe Cape Haytian CHIEN Christian Cicero Cockroach CONNAIT CRAPAUD creole cröe currency danger Descartes devil eggs envy epigram FAIT familiar feed fingers following proverb fortune French say frog GAGNÉ GAN CHEMIN garden Germans say give gumbo Hayti Haytian proverb heart horse Hunt island JAMAIN least leprosy lesson lizard MACOUTE man's MANGÉ MAPOU Martinique MOUNE NANS negro never nion numbers origin OUS PAS CAPABLE PASSÉ pauvre Plutarch poet poor Port-au-Prince poule PREND prince Publius Syrus quatre chemins rience rogue says La Bruyère selfish sense Sissa slave proverb slavery soon Spaniards say spider spoon TÊTE thing tian civilization tion TOMBÉ tongue Toussaint TOUT Trinidad version truth Venter verb VINI POU VLÉ wealth wild hog wisdom words YAMME YEAUX
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Page 105 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 106 - And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. 33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Page 34 - For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Page 106 - Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there." And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, " Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." But the men that went up with him said, " We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Page 14 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 54 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 105 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 37 - After you had passed several courts, you came to the centre, wherein you might behold the constable himself, in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out, upon all occasions of prey or defence. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without...
Page 40 - Not to disparage myself, said he, by the comparison with such a rascal, what art thou but a vagabond without house or home, without stock or inheritance ? born to no possession of your own, but a pair of wings and a drone-pipe. Your livelihood is...
Page 41 - I am glad," answered the bee, "to hear you grant at least that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice ; for then, it seems, I am obliged to Heaven alone for my flights and my music ; and Providence would never have bestowed on me two such gifts, without designing them for the noblest ends.