| 1823 - 496 pages
...occurred to any people unaccustomed to the herring fishery. " RULED BY THE RUDDER OR RULED BY THE ROCK." There is a Cornish proverb, ' Those who will not be...strands of Cornwall, so often covered with wrecks, could not fail to impress on the imagination of its inhabitants the two objects from whence they drew... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 498 pages
...two sides:" an image which could not have occurred to any people unaccustomed to the herring-fishery. There is a Cornish proverb, " Those who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock"—the strands of Cornwall, so often covered with wrecks, could not fail to impress on the imaginations... | |
| 1827 - 674 pages
...who frequently changes his place or his trade will never make money. There is a Cornish proverb, " He who will not be " ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock," intimating that those who are headstrong, and will not take advice, must suffer the consequences. The... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 466 pages
...two sides :' an image which could not have occurred to any people unaccustomed to herring-fishery. There is a Cornish proverb, ' Those who will not be...strands of Cornwall, so often covered with wrecks, could not fail to impress on the imaginations of its inhabitants the two objects from whence they drew... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 456 pages
...two sides :' an image which could not have occurred to any people unaccustomed to herring-fishery. There is a Cornish proverb, ' Those who will not be...strands of Cornwall, so often covered with wrecks, could not fail to impress on the imaginations of its inhabitants the two objects from whence they drew... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 462 pages
...two sides :' an image which could not have occurred to any people unaccustomed to herring-fishery. There is a Cornish proverb, ' Those who will not be...strands of Cornwall, so often covered with wrecks, could not fail to impress on the imaginations of its inhabitants the two objects from whence they drew... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 474 pages
...the two sides :' an imago which could not have occurred to any people unaccustomed to herringfishery. There is a Cornish proverb, 'Those who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled bv the rock' — the strands ol Cornwall, so often covered with wrecks, could not fail to impress on... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...parallels of each other.—Ib. 1358. A fog cannot be dissipated with a/an.—Japanese Proverb. 1359. Those who will not be ruled by the rudder, must be ruled by the rock.—Cornish Proverb. 13CO. What the eyes do not see, the heart does not grieve at.—Negro ditto.... | |
| 1854 - 694 pages
...English, and could have had its birth only under such variable skies as ours." The Cornish proverb, He who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock, belongs to no inland county, nor smooth and secure coast There is something manifestly Oriental in... | |
| 1853 - 582 pages
...against obstacles, which with a little prudence and foresight they might have avoided. It is this : He who will not be ruled by the rudder, must be ruled by the rock. It sets us at once upon some rocky and wreck-strewn coast : we feel that it could never have been the... | |
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