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longer make its appearance, 
cabinets of the curious. 
but in the 
T am, oe. 

To ibe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Ook to my promife, I now 
fend you the Hebrew Adages, col- 
le&ted by Dausivs. | 
Two dry fticks will burn one green one. — 
A fmall piece of money will clatter in a. 
bottle. 
Interpreted—“ The fool makes a great 
noife with the little he knows. 
An elephant can pafs eafier through the eye 
of a needle. : : 
Does not this proverb. determine the 
g } j 
meaning of sapnroc, Matth. xix. 24 ; 
. The workman fits upon the ftake which he 
himfelf has fharpened. Wee 
Applied to fuch as make their own mif- 
fortunes. 
-Aben Zoma is ftill at the door. 
“Applied to theologians who ftudy philo- 
fophy—and, indeed, to all who follow 
purfuits different from the one they pro- 
fefs. 
As the canker-worm to the wheat, is the 
proftitute to the houfe. 
He who denies a crime, doubles it. 
Woe to the wicked! and woe to his neigh- 
y! % 
Bie who dwells with the wicked, 
with the witked. 
The fool perceives not misfortune. 
In his purfe, in his drink, in his anger, thall 
a man be known. | ae 
The ftick that is thrown into the air, will 
fall upon its root 
Pull out the beam from thine own eye. 
The muftard will bite a man, though he 
eats it from a fpoon of his own making. 
They have dived into the depths of the fea, 
and they have brought up—a fhell. 
A proverb, applied by the Hebrews to 
the Gentile philofophers. 
The ftalk is bruifed, on account of the Jeaf, 
Alluding to the fuiferings of thofe who 
divell with the wicked. 
Dangerous is the knife in the hand of the 
fool. 
The fon’s fons are as the fons. 
Or, The grand-children are even as the chil- 
dren. 
' The wine goes in, and the fecret goes out. 
Take away the falt, and throw the reft_to 
the dogs. ; 
Salt is the fymbol of wifdom, and that 
which is without it is thus faid to be 
valuelefs. 
The eye and the heart are the brokers of 
fn, 
: 
fuf€ers 
Hebrew Proverbs. 
[ May, 
Like dwells with like. 
Sheep follows fheep. 
Applied to him wlio fervilely imitates 
another. 
There is no profit in the bramble, until it be 
hewn down. 
Fair words without the fence, reafonable ones. 
within, 
‘T he interpretation {ays, “ The lame fhep- 
herd drives his flock to’ the fold, with 
gentle words ; and when he has folded 
them, beats them for ftraying -—Thus 
Princes treat their fubjeéts, when they, 
with fair promifes, have recalled them to 
fubmiffion.” 
Heaven affifts him who is willing to amend. . 
The way is open to him who will go te 
wickednels. j 
He who will not work, fhould not eat. 
The full tomach produces all evils. 
The journey is long, the, provifion for it 
little. d 
Appiied to thofe who labour in youth 
with the evils of poverty. 
Affiition follows the afflicted. 
At the tavern door, all are brothers and 
friends. 
A grain of pepper is ftronger than a bafket- 
full of: gourds. 
Precept is the reward of precept. 
Go to the fat, and thou fhalt grow fat. 
He has penetrated into the thickeft part of 
the beam. : 
A ftranger at home, the mafter of the Houfe 
abroad. 
Applied to him who is liberal at all 
houfes but his own. 
Write it upon the horn of the goat. 
Applied to thar which is totally loft. 
He carries ftraw to Epbraim._ 
As we fay—‘“ to carry coals to New- 
eaftle.”” 
Carry oil toa city of Olives. 
A pack for the camel. 
Tobias fins, Zigod fuffers. 
Zigod had accufed Tobias of fome crime, 
and was condemned to receive ftripes 
himfelf, becaufe he was the only wit- 
nels. 
He feeks what he has not toft. 
In that which'he labours, fhall every one 
reap the harveft. 
Retter is a friend in the flreet, than gold in 
the houfe. 
They who ufe two meafures fhal] perith. 
A candle in the noon day ! 
Sufficient for the fervant to be as his lor 
The fiamp (or die) of the wife ! 
Ufed to exprefs approbation. 
Or fociety or death. 
‘Not as your mother fays, but as the ftranger 
fays. j 
Bad is the reward of the falfe witnefs. 
Adorz 
