The sense is: “The fool wearies himself with ineffectual attempts; he does not have sufficient knowledge for the transaction of ordinary business.”…

To go to the city.—This is evidently a proverbial expre ion; “is not able to find his way on a plain road.” .

The labour of the foolish wearies everyone of them. The labour of fools, both in speaking and doing, weary those who have…

There is a practice in the East of charming serpents by music. The babbler's tongue is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison; and contradiction onl…