| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1812 - 376 pages
...breaking, backing, and billing ;" — " The Cause of still-vaulting all over the world," &c. &c. — Two or three very ingenious sentiments were added by a...the Spaniards;" and " You may bring a Horse to the ivater, but you can't make him drink;" and many others equally g'«>d, which memory failed us to record.... | |
| 1848 - 570 pages
...she whipped away my snuff-box. There is an old saying, and a remarkably true one, that you may take a horse to the water but you can't make him drink, and the same stout aphorism holds good with regard to individuals and their wittles. It's no use trying... | |
| 1848 - 592 pages
...she whipped away my snuff-box. There is an old saying, and a remarkably true one, that you may take a horse to the water but you can't make him drink, and the same stout aphorism holds good with regard to individuals and their wittles. It's no use trying... | |
| Henry Broadbent - 1885 - 166 pages
...my great disappointment, the scheme is lost. Still, as Mr. Pelton, another member, remarked, you can bring a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink; and it's the same way with baths. All the previous matters were easily settled, but the hospital threatened... | |
| Richard Dowling - 1891 - 396 pages
...compelled to allow it to make a difference, and a very considerable difference, to you." " You can bring a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink." "Ah, you can't make him drink for two reasons: first, because he is a horse, and, second, because it's... | |
| Maria Theresa Earle - 1897 - 410 pages
...both in gardening and cooking. It is, however, undeniable that, as the old proverb says, you may drag a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink ; and unless, when I name plants or vegetables for the table, you look them up in the books, you will derive... | |
| Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - 1904 - 558 pages
...Canada, where a situation will be found for her. There is an old saw to the effect that you can take a horse to the water but you can't make him drink, and that, I fear, despite all encouragement, is the attitude of the British middle-class woman towards... | |
| John Ferriss Causton - 1904 - 334 pages
...n't get them to try that," whispered Mrs. Loftus; " you know the old proverb, my dear! 'You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink,' and the same applies to donkeys, no doubt" Violet laughed angrily, and banged at the harmonium as chough... | |
| 1909 - 194 pages
...the presiding officer asks if any one wishes to speak, no one ever responds. In other words, you can bring a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink. If, however, the question at issue is M one of general policy, the people may have, and often do have,... | |
| 1911 - 1024 pages
...Act, the Court would not go behind it. CHARLES MORSE. FREE INSTITUTIONS. i The old proverb says that " you may bring a horse to the water but you cant make him drink." So it is also true that it is possible to give a people free institutions, but you cannot make them... | |
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