Henry George Bohn
Henry George Bohn
Henry George Bohnwas a British publisher. He is principally remembered for the Bohn's Libraries which he inaugurated. These were begun in 1846, targeted the mass market, and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth4 January 1796
good-luck long luck
Good luck reaches farther than long arms.
mouths lawyer hell
The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.
faults hunger culinary
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
kings flower eye
If on creation's morn the king of heaven To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given, O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee Of shrubs and flowers the sovereign lord to be; The spotless emblem of unsullied truth, The smile of beauty and the glow of youth, The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers, The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers.
feelings magic cold-hearted
The smile that illumines the features of beauty, When kindled by virtue, alluring appears; But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow, To vie with the softness of beauty in tears. The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving; Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears; But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling, And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears.
dream flower heart
There is nothing can equal the tender hours When life is first in bloom, When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers, Finds everywhere perfume; When the present is all and it questions not If those flowers shall pass away, But pleased with its own delightful lot, Dreams never of decay.
aging good-health young
He who has good health is young.
veterans-day military blood
A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
goodness
Good is good, but better carrieth it.