Select proverbs of all nations: illustrated with notes and comments
Subtitle: To which is added a summary of ancient pastimes, holidays, and customs; with an analysis of the wisdom of the ancients, and of the fathers of the church. The whole arranged on a new plan ...
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
Published: 1824
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Advertisement iii; title: Introduction v; title: PROVERBS.; title: Select Proverbs of all Nations 1; title: Religion, Virtue, and Learning 55; title: Laws, Government, and Public Affairs 75; title: Economy, Manners, and Riches 83; title: Women, Love, and Wedlock 107; title: Health and Diet 121; title: Husbandry and Weather 127; title: English Local Proverbs 130; title: Familiar Phrases 144; title: Similies and Old Saws 154; title: Proverbial Rhymes 155; title: PART II.; title: SUMMARY OF ANCIENT PASTIMES, HOLIDAYS, CUSTOMS, CEREMONIES, AND SUPERSTITIONS.; title: PASTIMES AND HOLIDAYS.; title: General History of Popular Sports 162; title: Hand-ball 164; title: Stool-ball 165; title: Foot-ball 165; title: Pall-mall ib.; title: Golf ib.; title: Cricket ib.; title: Running at the Quintain ib.; title: Hock-day 166; title: Sheep-shearing and the Harvest Supper ib.; title: Advent of the New Year ib.; title: Fairs 167; title: May-Games ib.; title: Whitsuntide-Holidays 168; title: Country Wakes ib.; title: Remarks ib.; title: CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES.; title: Midsummer-Eve 169; title: Valentine-Day ib.; title: Collop-Monday ib.; title: Hallow-Eve 170; title: The Boy-Bishop b.; title: The Montem at Etn 171; title: Royal Oak Day 172; title: The Passing Bell ib.; title: Mothering Sunday ib.; title: All Fools' Day 173; title: Maunday Thursday ib.; title: St Patrick's Day ib.; title: Parochial Perambulations 174; title: Michaelmas Goose ib.; title: CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS.; title: Hagmena 175; title: Mumming ib.; title: Christmas Candles ib.; title: The Twelfth Day ib.; title: Evergreens 176; title: Christmas Boxes ib.; title: A Christmas Carol ib.; title: POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS; title: Ghosts 180; title: Witches; title: A Sorcerer or Magician; title: Fairies, Elves, Knockers, and Brownies; title: Second Sight; title: Omens, Charms, and Divination ib.; title: Remarks 189; title: VULGAR ERRORS.; title: Legal Errors 192; title: Errors in Natural History 193; title: "The Rose of Jericho" ib.; title: Pictorial Errors ib.; title: Errors on Man 194; title: Historical Errors 195; title: Miscellaneous Errors 196; title: PART III.; title: ANALYSIS OF THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS, AND OF THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH.; title: Avant-Propos igg; title: Anger 199; title: Ancestors ib.; title: Manners 200; title: Eating and Drinking 201; title: Eloquence 202; title: Friendship 203; title: Folly ib.; title: Industry ib.; title: Justice 204; title: Kings and Laws ib; title: Life and Death 205; title: Love 206; title: Riches and Poverty ib; title: Public Officers 297; title: Truth ib.; title: Time 206; title: Virtue ib.; title: Wisdom 210; title: Women 212; title: Miscellaneous Maxims 231