Description - A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs Explained and Made Intelligible to the English Reader by Prof James Kelly
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ...nothing that the cat lick'd the stone. 178. It was never for nothing the gled whistled. People who officiously offer their service, may be suspected to have some selfish end in it. Eng.--The cat knows whose lips she licks. 179. It is gone I lov'd you for. Jocosely spoken by girls to their courtiers, when they have had any loss or disaster. 180. It is good to fear the worst, the best will be th- welcomer. Fearing the worst will make us careful, and caulious; and if things succeed better than we expected, the surprise will be pleasant. Lat.--Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora. 5 Broth. 1 111 your common, of good your common is, there lies great obligations on you to do so, or other ways. - Kite. 181. It shall not be for your ease, and honour both. Spoken when we threaten to make a thing done in opposition to us, either uneasy, or disgraceful to the authors. This does not come up to the English, Honour and ease are seldom bed-fellows. 182. I wish I could put my finger, where you can put your whole hand. Intimating that they had much money. 183. It is ill medliug between the bark and the rind. Il is a troublesome and thankless office to concern Ourselves in the jars, and out-Calls of near relations, as man and wife, parents and children,&c. 184. It was but their cloaths that h cast out. That is, the quarrel was not real, but only with design, in order to accomplish some end. 185. If you will tell your secret to your servant, youhave made him your master. For having that hawnk over you he will be saucy. Lat.--Charus erit vcrri, qui verrem, tempore quo vull, Aecusare potest., 186. If you laugh at your own sport, the company, will laugh at you. K87. If your errand come my gate, you shall be as well serv'd. Either a promise, or a threatening, ...
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Verbatim Report of the Trial Kelly V. Sherlock; Being an Action for Libel, Tried at the Manchester Assizes, on Friday, August 11th, 1865
