The Wit and Wisdom of the HaytiansScribner & Armstrong, 1877 - 112 páginas |
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... become independent of the world , whether by having the means of gratifying our carnal appetites or by the gradual ex- 1 The day which puts a free man in irons deprives him of half his virtue . tinction of such of them as depend on the ...
... become independent of the world , whether by having the means of gratifying our carnal appetites or by the gradual ex- 1 The day which puts a free man in irons deprives him of half his virtue . tinction of such of them as depend on the ...
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... become a more hateful offense , and truthfulness a more indispensa- ble condition of worldly esteem . So long , however , as we are sustained in the dis- charge of our duty only by a sense of worldly prudence , the difference among us ...
... become a more hateful offense , and truthfulness a more indispensa- ble condition of worldly esteem . So long , however , as we are sustained in the dis- charge of our duty only by a sense of worldly prudence , the difference among us ...
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... become pro- verbial with them . The Haytians have this lessson preserved in many forms . Here are two : CABRITE QUI PAS MALIN MANGÉ NEN PIE MORNE . The wild goat is not cunning that eats at the foot of the mountain . That is , near the ...
... become pro- verbial with them . The Haytians have this lessson preserved in many forms . Here are two : CABRITE QUI PAS MALIN MANGÉ NEN PIE MORNE . The wild goat is not cunning that eats at the foot of the mountain . That is , near the ...
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... become possessed , are never objects of envy . We may pasture those on the high - road , at the foot of the mountain , or where we please . People try to deprive us of them sometimes , but never because they desire to appropriate them ...
... become possessed , are never objects of envy . We may pasture those on the high - road , at the foot of the mountain , or where we please . People try to deprive us of them sometimes , but never because they desire to appropriate them ...
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... become the victims of their own perfidy . " Whoso diggeth a pit , " says Solomon , " shall fall therein and he that rolleth a stone , it will return upon him . " He is " taken in his own toils . " Like Acteon , he is eaten by his own ...
... become the victims of their own perfidy . " Whoso diggeth a pit , " says Solomon , " shall fall therein and he that rolleth a stone , it will return upon him . " He is " taken in his own toils . " Like Acteon , he is eaten by his own ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 54 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.