More easy to be broken than the house of a spider. (Arabian). A simile taken from the Koran. Passions are like iron thrown into the furnace, as long as it is in the fire you can make no vessel out of it. (Hebrew). A simile taken from the Talmud. Rain in the morning is like a woman tucking up her sleeves for a fight. (Japanese). There is nothing to fear in either one or the other. "Alum is used as an amulet to preserve children from the evil eye. A little ring of blue glass, a bit of alum, a verse of the Koran, sewn up in a triangular bag, are fixed on the child's takiye' (scull-cap). Most Oriental families, even Christians, practise this superstition. They even employ it for their cattle, horses, etc. Hence the alum-seller has a good trade."-E. J. Davis. Scarcer than the nose of the lion. (Arabian). She is quiet as a wasp in one's nose. (English). Strife is like the plank in a bridge-the longer it exists the firmer it becomes. (Hebrew). "Strife is like the aperture of a leakage: as [the aperture] widens, so [the stream of water] increases. (Hebrew). The difference is as great as that between an elephant and a mosquito. (Tamil). The doctrine that enters only into the eye and ear is like the repast one takes in a dream. (Chinese). The law is like the axle of a carriage-you can turn it wherever you please. (Russian). The matter drags like a mist without wind. (Bulgarian). This is stranger than that, and that is stranger than this. (Tamil). To be like a castanet. (Spanish). To be very merry. To forgive the unrepentant is like making pictures on water. (Japanese). Worldly prosperity is like writing on water. (Telugu). You are drunk as a snake. (Efik-West African). You are like the fruit of the tál tree. (Bengalese). The tál-tree fruit falls far from the tree on which it grew-hence the simile is used in referring to servants who are nowhere to be found when their services are required, and to people who neglect their kindred and friends and help strangers who live far away. AUTHORS QUOTED [The figures following the dates are the numbers of the pages on which quotations may be found.] Abira, Rabbi, 116 Abu Bekr, A.D. 573-634, 117 Abul Kasim Mansur, A.D. 940-1020, 158 Esop, died about B.C. 561, 359 Alger, William R., A.D. 1022–1905, 41 Andrews, William, A.D. 1890, 254 Aristotle, B.C. 384-322, 354 Austin, St., A.D. ?-604, 355 Bacon, Francis, A.D. 1561-1626, 41, 42 Bigelow, John, A.D. 1817-1911, 230 Bland, Robert, A.D. 1814, 229 Brand, John, A.D. 1744-1806, 324 Brewer, E. Cobham, A.D. 1810–1897, 84, 131 Browne, Sir Thomas, A.D. 1605-1682, 101 Buckhardt, J. L., A.D. 1784-1817, 53, 76, 133, 160, 164, 173, 179, 247, 278, 335, 339, 342, 352 Bürger, Gottfried A., A.D. 1747-1794, 223 Burns, Robert, A.D. 1759–1796, 95, 358 Burton, Richard F., A.D. 1821-1890, 64, 283, 322, 361 Cæsar, Caius Julius, B.C. 100-44, 356 Catullus, Caius Valerius, B.C. 87-54, 354 Chambers, Robert, A.D. 1802-1871, 86 Chaucer, Geoffrey, A.D. 1340-1400, 104 Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, A.D. 1694-1773, 2 Cheviot, Andrew, A.D. 1896, 50, 62, 199, 240, 369 Child, Francis J., A.D. 1825-1896, 257 Christian, John, A.D. 1890, 28, 42, 67, 71, 203, 226, 307, 309, 346 Cohen, A., A.D. 1911, 63, 70 Collins, John, A.D. 1823, 239 Congreve, William, A.D. 1670-1729, 275, 305 Cornwall, Barry (Bryan Waller Procter), A.D. 1787-1874, 44 Cowan, Frank, A.D. 1844-1906, 298 Cowper, William, A.D. 1731-1800, 102, 105, 304 Davis, E. J., A.D. 1897, 237, 382 Davis, John Francis, A.D. 1795-1890, 45 Dickens, Charles, A.D. 1812-1870, 367 Disraeli, Isaac, A.D. 1766-1848, iii., 24, 36, 44, 258 Dumas, Alexander, A.D. 1803-1870, 373 Dykes, Oswald, A.D. 1707, 191, 193, 235, 301, 325 Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans—Lewes, Cross), A.D. 1819– 1880, 107 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, A.D. 1803-1882, 15, 31, 42, 228 Fleming, A., 209 Franklin, Benjamin, A.D. 1706-1790, 111, 130, 221, 305 Fuller, Thomas, A.D. 1608–1661, 46, 57 Gay, John, A.D. 1685-1732, 127, 325 Geikie, Cunningham, A.D. 1824-1906, 118, 119, 127 Goldsmith, Oliver, A.D. 1728-1774, III Gower, John, A.D. 1325-1408, 255, 372 Grose, Francis, A.D. 1731-1791, 57, 152, 162, 245, 323, 330, 331 Gurdon, P. R. T., A.D. 1903, 337 Hackwood, Frederick W., A.D. 1911, 295, 315 |