 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - Страниц: 516
...vexation or fretting enough. He who buys by the penny keeps his own houfe and other men's too. Teil me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you do. At a good pennyworth paufe a while. He who doth his own bufincfs doth no: foui his fingers. 'Tis... | |
 | August Friedrich F. von Kotzebue - 1804 - Страниц: 256
...THE STREETS Of P4RIS DESCRIBED:. JOUR LETTERS TO A LADY. LETTER I JHY DEAR FRIEND \ THE proverb, " Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you are," is perhaps liable to many exceptions; for only very independent men are at liberty to choose their company.... | |
 | 1804 - Страниц: 168
...cat. The barber learns to fhave at the beards of fools. The printing-prefs is the mother of errors. Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you do. Talk but little, and live as you fliould do. The abfent party is flill faulty. There is no great... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - Страниц: 310
...Itaih vexation or fretting enough. He who buys by the penny keeps his own house and other men's too. Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you do. He who doth his own business doth not fonl his fingers. 'Tis good feasting at other men's houses.... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 758
...idea ; and had I said so, I might have been more than half right. When it is considered wh at sort of company the poet keeps, it is to be expected that...very features of their faces ; and, it is palpable to every-day observation, that manner is catching, and that the character of the society we affect, is... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 762
...of a Blackmoreish character ; I was about to say a Cockneyish idea ; and bad I said so, I might have been more than half right. When it is considered what...what you are," is a proverbial saying, of which all raen acknowledge the justice. Lovers, it is said, have been known to assimilate in the very features... | |
 | Alessandro Manzoni - 1834 - Страниц: 482
...criminal, a fugitive from justice, such as Renzo, there must be some corruption, some concealed vice. " Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you are." The visit of Lucy had confirmed her opinion ; she appeared, indeed, to be an artless girl, but... | |
 | Alessandro Manzoni - 1834 - Страниц: 474
...criminal, a fugitive from justice, such as Renzo, there must be some corruption, some concealed vice. " Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you are." The visit of Lucy had confirmed her opinion ; she appeared, indeed, to be an artless girl, but... | |
 | 1836 - Страниц: 900
...walk not thou in the way with them, : refrain thy foot from their path." The old adage, " Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you what you are," is founded on an accurate observation of the influence which our associates have in forming our character.... | |
 | 1837 - Страниц: 404
...familiarly conversant with them. So that with respect to them, as well as the other, it may be said, " tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you are." How cautious then ought yon to be in the selection of books, both for yourselves and others ;... | |
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Tell me what company you keep and I will tell you what you are ' ; and the other one, ' Not with whom you are bred, but with whom you are fed. 
