Proverbs and Their Lessons - Gordon College

proverb, Many things find place between the cup and . the lip, arose.1. A Scotch proverb, He that invented the Maiden first . hanselled it, is not altogether unworthy to rank with . these. It alludes to the well-known historic fact that . the Regent Morton, the inventor of a new instrument . of death called 'The Maiden,' a sort of anticipation ................
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