The Wit and Wisdom of the HaytiansScribner & Armstrong, 1877 - 112 pages |
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... with my readers . A majority of the proverbs in common . use among the Haytians had evidently come from the Old World , many , of course , from - France not the least valuable relic of French domination 4 WIT AND WISDOM.
... with my readers . A majority of the proverbs in common . use among the Haytians had evidently come from the Old World , many , of course , from - France not the least valuable relic of French domination 4 WIT AND WISDOM.
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... common with those of the wisest of sovereigns , that they will be found " to speak of trees , of beasts , and of fowl , and of creeping things , and of fishes . " I. D'ABORD VOUS GUETTE POUX DE BOIS MANGÉ CANARI , CALEBASSE PAS CAPABE ...
... common with those of the wisest of sovereigns , that they will be found " to speak of trees , of beasts , and of fowl , and of creeping things , and of fishes . " I. D'ABORD VOUS GUETTE POUX DE BOIS MANGÉ CANARI , CALEBASSE PAS CAPABE ...
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... impostors . It teaches a more profound theology and a more divine charity than is common even in the pulpit . A little grain largely cultivated in the Antilles . 4 There are two other West Indian proverbs of the OF THE HAYTIANS . 28.
... impostors . It teaches a more profound theology and a more divine charity than is common even in the pulpit . A little grain largely cultivated in the Antilles . 4 There are two other West Indian proverbs of the OF THE HAYTIANS . 28.
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... common interest , or endears the tie : To these we owe true friendship , love sincere ; Each home felt joy that life inherits here : Yet from the same we learn , in its decline , Those joys , those loves , those interests to resign ...
... common interest , or endears the tie : To these we owe true friendship , love sincere ; Each home felt joy that life inherits here : Yet from the same we learn , in its decline , Those joys , those loves , those interests to resign ...
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... common adversary . Hence all predatory and noxious animals and insects are rendered , by their very selfishness , comparatively harmless . " It is a wonderful proof of the wisdom of Providence , " said the late Lord Lytton , " that ...
... common adversary . Hence all predatory and noxious animals and insects are rendered , by their very selfishness , comparatively harmless . " It is a wonderful proof of the wisdom of Providence , " said the late Lord Lytton , " that ...
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acquire African asked bear become believe BOIS capabe Cape CHIEN Christian comes common CONNAIT danger dependence ears enemy English epigram expected expression faire fall familiar favor fear feed fingers fortune four French frequently GAGNÉ garden Germans give given gumbo half Hayti Haytian head heart horse Hunt important interest island keep known land least less lesson live man's MANGÉ master measure mind mother NANS naturally negro never once origin PASSÉ perhaps poor possessed present prince proverb Quaker reason reflects respect seems selfish sense sentiment slave slavery society soon sort Spaniards spider taken teach thing tion tongue truth turned verb weakness wealth wisdom wished wood
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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.