Studies in Life from Jewish Proverbs
by W. A. L. Elmslie
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About this eBook
- Author
- Elmslie, W. A. L. (William Alexander Leslie), 1885-1965
- Credits
- Produced by Chuck Greif, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Proverbs, Hebrew
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60228
- Release Date
- September 3, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STUDIES IN LIFE FROM JEWISH PROVERBS
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.CHAPTER I The Characteristics of Proverbs
- 5.CHAPTER II The Proverbs of the Jews — THE SOURCES OF JEWISH PROVERBS
- 6.CHAPTER III Forgotten Years — I — II
- 7.CHAPTER IV The Day of Small Things
- 8.CHAPTER V Iron Sharpeneth Iron
- 9.CHAPTER VI A Sower went forth to Sow
- 10.CHAPTER VII Men and Manners
- 11.CHAPTER VIII The Ideal
- 12.CHAPTER IX The Exaltation of Wisdom
- 13.CHAPTER X The Hill “Difficulty”
- 14.CHAPTER XI Harvest — I — II — III
- 15.CHAPTER XII Values
- 16.CHAPTER XIII Nature in the Proverbs
- 17.CHAPTER XIV Humour in the Proverbs
- 18.CHAPTER XV From Wisdom’s Treasury
- 19.CHAPTER XVI The Body Politic
- 20.CHAPTER XVII A Chapter of Good Advice
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII Conduct
- 22.CHAPTER XIX Faith
- 23.CHAPTER XX The Gift of God
- 24.Index A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY — I.—INDEX OF REFERENCES — II.—INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- 25.INDEX OF TITLES
- 26.INDEX OF AUTHORS
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