English proverbs and proverbial phrases, collected from the most authentic sources, alphabetically arranged, and annotated . PN Hazlitt, William Carew 6-421 English proverbs and H3 proverbial phrases PLEASE DO NOT REMOVECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY. AM fully fenfible that the earlieft impreHionof many perfons, on reading the title of thisbook, will be an impreffion that it is one pub-lication too many in the prefent over-crowdedftate of our literature. That fuch an impreffionwould be fuperficial and inexa6l I fhould fcarcely dare toaffert, if I did not believe
English proverbs and proverbial phrases, collected from the most authentic sources, alphabetically arranged, and annotated . PN Hazlitt, William Carew 6-421 English proverbs and H3 proverbial phrases PLEASE DO NOT REMOVECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY. AM fully fenfible that the earlieft impreHionof many perfons, on reading the title of thisbook, will be an impreffion that it is one pub-lication too many in the prefent over-crowdedftate of our literature. That fuch an impreffionwould be fuperficial and inexa6l I fhould fcarcely dare toaffert, if I did not believe it to be the ftridl truth that hithertofull juftice has not been done to what muft be admitted tobe a fubjed of high and national intereft. The produdion ofa perfed: work on this or any other topic is beyond my ambi-tion ; but I err greatly if hitherto even approximate excel-lence has been attained. That popular phrafeology which has fubiifted among ustime out of mind, and which may be faid to conftitute a kindof Common Speech, prefents to our notice a theme peculiarlyabounding in curiofity, intereft, and focial illuftration. The Rev. John Ward, Vicar of Stratford-on-Avon in thetime of Charles II., obferves in his diary :— Six things re-quired to a proverb; i. Short; 2. p
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