A Classical Collection of Tamil ProverbsRoutledge, 15.10.2013 - 528 Seiten First Published in 2000. This is volume XIII of 14 in the Oriental Series based on India and its language and literature and is concerned with a collection of Tamil proverbs, along with translations and explanations. |
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Seite xi
... find any equivalent from the English . The English woman has been respected , while her Indian sister has met with very little respect , hence her lamenta- tion , and her revolting in bitter terms against her oppressors . Again , in ...
... find any equivalent from the English . The English woman has been respected , while her Indian sister has met with very little respect , hence her lamenta- tion , and her revolting in bitter terms against her oppressors . Again , in ...
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... find English equivalents for the Tamil . The meaning of an English and a Tamil proverb may be the same , but the habits , customs and climate have formed them so differently . As an instance , we say in Tamil : " Ears ( ornamented ) ...
... find English equivalents for the Tamil . The meaning of an English and a Tamil proverb may be the same , but the habits , customs and climate have formed them so differently . As an instance , we say in Tamil : " Ears ( ornamented ) ...
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... find that figurative speech always has great influence over the masses . I suppose this was the reason why Jesus , who " knew what was in man , " " spake unto the multitude in parables ; and without a parable spake he not unto them ...
... find that figurative speech always has great influence over the masses . I suppose this was the reason why Jesus , who " knew what was in man , " " spake unto the multitude in parables ; and without a parable spake he not unto them ...
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... find that it is hardly ever the course or tenor of the argument , supposing the discourse to have contained such ; but if anything has been uttered as it used so often to be by the best Puritan preachers , tersely , pointedly ...
... find that it is hardly ever the course or tenor of the argument , supposing the discourse to have contained such ; but if anything has been uttered as it used so often to be by the best Puritan preachers , tersely , pointedly ...
Seite xvii
... find any individual proverb , when we wish to see it . It is , how- ever , almost equally difficult to do this with the alphabetic arrange- ment , if one does not happen to remember the first word , which is often no easy thing , as it ...
... find any individual proverb , when we wish to see it . It is , how- ever , almost equally difficult to do this with the alphabetic arrange- ment , if one does not happen to remember the first word , which is often no easy thing , as it ...
Inhalt
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INDEX OF THE FIRST WORD OF EACH PROVERB | 405 |
AN INDEX OF NONINITIAL WORDS FROM THE BODY OF THE PROVERBS | 443 |