Proverbs and Their Lessons
by Richard Chenevix Trench
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About this eBook
- Author
- Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886
- Title
- Proverbs and Their Lessons Being the Subject of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and Elsewhere
- Credits
- Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Mhairi Hindle and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Proverbs
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 56504
- Release Date
- February 6, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber’s Note
- 2.PROVERBS AND THEIR LESSONS. — PREFACE. — CONTENTS.
- 3.LECTURE I. THE FORM AND DEFINITION OF A PROVERB. — Footnotes
- 4.LECTURE II. THE GENERATION OF PROVERBS. — Footnotes
- 5.LECTURE III. THE PROVERBS OF DIFFERENT NATIONS COMPARED. — Footnotes
- 6.LECTURE IV. THE POETRY, WIT, AND WISDOM OF PROVERBS. — Footnotes
- 7.LECTURE V. THE MORALITY OF PROVERBS. — Footnotes
- 8.LECTURE VI. THE THEOLOGY OF PROVERBS. — Footnotes
- 9.APPENDIX. ON THE METRICAL LATIN PROVERBS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. (See p. 29 .) — Transcriber’s Note
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