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" tis an ordinance of God : so is every other contract ; God commands me to keep it when I have made it. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in JEsop were extremely wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well because... "
The Ogilvies: A Novel - Page 111
by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1871 - 421 pages
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Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq., Or His Sense of ...

John Selden - 1786 - 196 pages
...to keep it when 1 have made it. III. Marriage is a desperate thing; the frogs in JEsop were extreme wise', they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again. IV. We single out particulars and apply God's providence...
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Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ...

Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...to keep it when I have made it. IBID. MARRIAGE is a desperate thing: the frogs in Msop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again. IBID. WE single out particulars, and apply God's providence...
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The Table Talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...me to keep it when I have made it. 3. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in JEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again. 4. We single out particulars, and apply God's providence...
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Seldeniana, or The table-talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 230 pages
...to kepp it when I have madfi it. 3. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in ./Esop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap irfto the well, because they could not get out again. 4. We single out particulars, and apply God's...
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Selden's table talk

John Selden - 1821 - 170 pages
...me to keep it when I have made it. 3. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in /Esop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again. 4. We single out particulars, and apply God's providence...
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The British Prose Writers: Sheldon's table talk. Sir W. Blackstone's ...

1821 - 328 pages
...me to keep it when I have made it. 3. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in jEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again. 4. We single out particulars, and apply God's providence...
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Table-talk; Or, Selections from the Ana: Containing Extracts from the ...

George Moir - 1827 - 466 pages
...me to keep i* when I have made it. 3. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in JEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again. 4. We single out particulars, and apply God's providence...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...impedes, more than it protects. Byron. DCCCCXXVL Marriage is a desperate thing: the frogs in iEsop were extremely wise, they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again. — Selden. . DCCCCXXVIL The good-will of the benefactor...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...impedes, more than it protects. Byron. DCCCCXXVI. Marriage is a desperate thing: the frogs in .Esop were extremely wise, they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again. — Selden. DCCCCXXVII. The good-will of the benefactor...
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Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, Volumes 4-6

1830 - 388 pages
...exaggeration. — I iterpool Mercury. i — Seldon says, " Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs Were extremely wise : they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again." — The learned Civilian seems to have bad as great...
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