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