PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

I. THE MONOPOLIST.

II. THE FALSE HUMOURIST.

III. THE FLATTERER. "Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest,

IV. THE BRAWLER.

V. THE MISCHIEF-MAKER.

VI. THE PLEONAST.

VII. THE SELF-DISPARAGER. "The love of praise, howe'er

VIII. THE COMMON SWEARER. "Take not His name, who made thy

IX. THE AFFECTED.

X. THE STULTILOQUIST. "Compress the sum into its solid worth,

XI. THE SLANDERER. "Whose edge is sharper than the sword: whose

XII. THE VALETUDINARIAN. "Some men employ their health, an ugly

XIII. THE WHISPERER. "And when they talk of him they shake

XIV. THE HYPERBOLIST. "He was owner of a piece of ground not

XV. THE INQUISITIVE. "The Inquisitive will blab: from such

XVI. THE PEDANT.

XVII. THE DETRACTOR. "The ignoble mind Loves ever to assail

XVIII. THE GRUMBLER. "Still falling out with this and this, And

XIX. THE EGOTIST. "What cracker is this same, that deafs our

XX. THE TALE-BEARER. "He that rails against his absent friends,

XXI. THE ASSENTER. "And there's one rare, strange virtue in his

XXII. THE LIAR.

XXIII. THE CENSORIOUS.

XXIV. THE DOGMATIST. "I am Sir Oracle: And when I ope my lips let no dog bark." Shakespeare.

XXV. THE ALTILOQUENT. "With words of learned length and thundering sound." Goldsmith.

XXVI. THE DOUBLE-TONGUED. "Think'st thou there are no serpents

XXVII. THE DUBIOUS. "Man, on the dubious waves of error tossed,

XXVIII. THE SUSPICIOUS. "Foul suspicion! thou turnest love

XXIX. THE POETIC.

XXX. "YES" AND "NO."

XXXI. A GROUP OF TALKERS.

XXXII. A MODEL TALKER.

ILLUSTRATIONS of MORAL AND RELIGIOUS TRUTHS;

Title: Talkers

With Illustrations

Author: John Bate

Language: English

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TALKERS:

With Illustrations.

BY

JOHN BATE,

Author of “CyclopÆdia of Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths,” etc., etc.

LONDON:
ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.;
AND SOLD AT 66, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1878.

Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Printers, London and Aylesbury.