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1 I | but is fated to have no son. Therefore he adopts his
2 I, 1 | and of Nadan, sister's son to Haiqâr the Sage.~
3 I, 2 | days of King Sennacherib, son~of Sarhadum, King of Assyria
4 I, 12 | take Nadan thy sister's son, and make him thy child
5 I, 13 | took Nadan his sister's son, who was a little suckling.
6 I, 18 | There is Nadan my sister's son, I have made him my child.~
7 I, 21 | presented Nadan his sister's son. And he did homage and wished
8 I, 22 | to Haiqâr: 'Is this thy son, O Haiqâr? I pray that God
9 I, 25 | took Nadan. his sister's son with him and seated him
10 II, 26 | taught him, saying: 'O my son! hear my speech and follow
11 II, 27 | 2 O my son! if thou hearest a word,
12 II, 28 | 3 O my son! if thou hast heard a report,
13 II, 29 | 4 O my son! make thy eloquence easy
14 II, 30 | 5 O my son! when thou hast heard anything,
15 II, 31 | 6 O my son! loose not a sealed knot,
16 II, 32 | 7 O my son! covet not outward beauty,
17 II, 33 | 8 O my son! let not a silly woman deceive
18 II, 34 | 9 O my son! desire not a woman bedizened
19 II, 35 | 10 O my son! be not like the almond-tree,
20 II, 36 | 11 O my son! bend thy head low down,
21 II, 37 | 12 O m son! the removing of stones
22 II, 38 | 13 O my son! pour out thy wine on the
23 II, 39 | 14 O my son! cleave to wise men who
24 II, 40 | 15 O my son! when thou hast got thee
25 II, 41 | 16 O my son! while a shoe stays on thy
26 II, 41 | and make a road for thy son, and for thy household and
27 II, 42 | 17 O my son! if the rich man eat a snake,
28 II, 43 | 18 O my son! he content with thy daily
29 II, 44 | 19 O my son! be not neighbour to the
30 II, 45 | 20 O my son! a man who fears God do
31 II, 46 | 21 O my son! the ignorant man falls
32 II, 47 | 22 O my son! if a man approach thee
33 II, 48 | 23 O my son! spare not to beat thy son,
34 II, 48 | son! spare not to beat thy son, for the drubbing of thy
35 II, 48 | for the drubbing of thy son is like manure to the garden,
36 II, 49 | 24 O my son! restrain thy son from wickedness,
37 II, 49 | 24 O my son! restrain thy son from wickedness, and teach
38 II, 50 | 25 O my son! get thee a fat ox with
39 II, 51 | 26 O my son! let not thy parents curse
40 II, 52 | 27 O my son! walk not on the road without
41 II, 53 | 28 O my son! be not like a bare, leafless
42 II, 54 | 29 O my son! be like a fruitful tree
43 II, 55 | 30 O my son! every sheep that wanders
44 II, 56 | 31 O my son! say not, "My lord is a
45 II, 57 | 32 O my son! be not one of those servants,
46 II, 58 | 33 O my son! caress not thy slave in
47 II, 59 | 34 O my son! be not afraid of thy Lord
48 II, 60 | 35 O my son! make thy speech fair and
49 II, 61 | 36 O my son! if thou beat a wise man
50 II, 62 | 37 O my son! if thou send a wise man
51 II, 63 | 38 O my son! make not an enemy of a
52 II, 64 | 39 O my son! make trial of thy son,
53 II, 64 | my son! make trial of thy son, and of thy servant, before
54 II, 65 | 40 O my son! I have eaten a colocynth,
55 II, 66 | 41 O my son! teach thy son frugality
56 II, 66 | 41 O my son! teach thy son frugality and hunger, that
57 II, 67 | 42 O my son! teach not to the ignorant
58 II, 68 | 43 O my son! display not thy condition
59 II, 69 | 44 O my son! the blindness of the heart
60 II, 70 | 45 O my son! the stumbling of a man
61 II, 71 | 46 O my son! a friend who is near is
62 II, 72 | 47 O my son! beauty fades but learning
63 II, 73 | 48 O my son! the man who hath no rest,
64 II, 75 | 50 O my son! a small fortune is better
65 II, 76 | 51 O my son! a living dog is better
66 II, 77 | 52 O my son! a poor man who does right
67 II, 78 | 53 O my son! keep a word in thy heart,
68 II, 79 | 54 O my son! let not a word issue from
69 II, 80 | 55 O my son! withstand not a man stronger
70 II, 81 | 56 O my son! hate not thy first friend,
71 II, 82 | 57 O my son! visit the poor in his affliction,
72 II, 83 | 58 O my son! rejoice not in the death
73 II, 84 | 59 O my son! if water would stand still
74 II, 85 | 60 O my son! if thou desire to be wise,
75 II, 86 | 61 O my son! let the wise man beat thee
76 II, 87 | 62 O my son! withstand not a man in
77 II, 88 | 63 O my son! be not hasty in the wedding
78 II, 89 | 64 O my son! whosoever is elegant in
79 II, 90 | 65 O my son! if thou hast committed
80 II, 91 | 66 O my son! make a friend of the man
81 III, 93 | proverbs to Nadan, his sister's son, he imagined that he would
82 III, 101 | with Nadan his sister's son, and he continued to be
83 III, 104 | wrote a letter to Achish, son of Shah the Wise, king of
84 III, 140 | know that Nadan my sister's son has deceived me and has
85 IV, 162 | it be Nadan, his sister's son, for he taught him all his
86 V, 191 | when Nadan his sister's son perceived what was happening,
87 VI, 294 | give me Nadan, my sister's son, that I may recompense him
88 VI, 295 | took Nadan, his sister's son, and bound his hands with
89 VII, 296 | scolded Nadan, his sister's son, saying to him wisely:~
90 VII, 298 | 3 'O my son! it is said in the proverbs:
91 VII, 307 | 12 O my son! know thou that if the tail
92 VII, 309 | 14 O my son! thou hast been to me like
93 VII, 320 | 25 O my son! thou hast been to me like
94 VII, 322 | 27 O my son! thou hast been to me like
95 VII, 323 | 28 O my son! thou hast been to me like
96 VII, 325 | 30 O my son! the hand which does not
97 VII, 326 | 31 O my son! the eye in which light
98 VII, 330 | 35 O my son! thou hast been like the
99 VII, 340(1)| parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke XV. 19.~
100 VII, 347 | begettest a boy, call him thy son, and if thou rearest a boy,
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