...Ispahan, or " Hijaz, it would disgust, if proceeding from " the pipe of so vile a minstrel." APOLOGUK 20. THEY asked Lucman, the fabulist, from whom did you...for I was careful to avoid whatever part of their behaviour seemed to me bad : " they will not speak a word in joke " from which the wise cannot derive...

...Life is too short to get over a bad manner ; besides, manners are the shadows of virtue. Sidney Smith. They asked Lucman, the fabulist, from whom did you...learn manners ? He answered ; from the unmannerly. Sadi. I called on the King, but he made me wait in his hall, and conducted like a man incapacitated...

...Without the winds she would not move, without the pilot she would be lost. — Anon, (from the French). They asked Lucman, the fabulist, " From whom did you...learn manners ? " He answered, " From the unmannerly." — Moslih-Eddin Saadi. The only equitable manner of judging the character of a man is to examine if...

...so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. — Emenon. They asked Lncman, the fabulist, From whom did you learn manners ? He answered : From the unmannerly. — Saadi. Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing....

...recovered ! — Yes ! many a fleet horse perished by the way, and that lame ass reached the end of the 43 journey. How many of the vigorous and hale did they...a fool, and they will all seem but a jest to him. XXI They tell a story of an abid, who in the course of a night would eat ten mans, or pounds, of food,...

...and complaint, and besought the intercession of God and the prophet; but all to no purpose.—When the gloomy-minded robber is flushed with victory,...a fool, and they will all seem but a jest to him. XXI They tell a story of an abid, who in the course of a night would eat ten mans, or pounds, of food,...

...26. It is a barbarous incivilty to sport with what others count religion. Archbishop Tillotson. 27. They asked Lucman the fabulist, "From whom did you...learn manners?" He answered, "From the unmannerly." Saadi. 28. Improper words admit of no defense ; a want of decency is want of sense. Pope. 29. Fine...

...journey. How many of the vigorous and hale did they put underground, and that wounded man recovered ! XX They asked Lucman, the fabulist, " From whom did...will not speak a word in joke from which the wise can not derive instruction; let them read a hundred chapters of wisdom to a fool, and they will all...