PREFACE.
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INDEX OF PRINCIPAL WORDS.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
Transcriber's Notes: Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. Ellipses match the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text.
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A
DICTIONARY
OF
ENGLISH PROVERBS
THE FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS SERIES OF BOOKS.
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1. Familiar Latin Quotations & Proverbs.
2. Familiar French Quotations & Proverbs.
3. Familiar English Quotations.
4. A Handy Classical Dictionary.
5. Bible Truths with Shakespearian Parallels. By J. B. Selkirk.
6. A Handy Book of Synonyms, containing about 33,000 English Words.
7. The Secretary's Assistant and Correspondent's Guide. Nineteenth Edition.
8. Tourist's French Pronouncing Handbook.
9. Reasons why we believe the Bible. By the Rev. James Copland, M.A.
10. Tales from Shakspeare. By Charles Lamb.
11. A Dictionary of Daily Blunders correcting them.
12. Rasselas. By Dr. Johnson.
13. Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia.
14. Rejected Addresses.
15. A Dictionary of English Proverbs.
16. Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men.
17. De Quincey's Opium-Eater.
18. The Story of the New Testament. By the Rev. A. Carter, M.A.
19. A Dictionary of Mythology.
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A
DICTIONARY
OF
English Proverbs
AND
Proverbial Phrases
WITH
A COPIOUS INDEX OF PRINCIPAL WORDS
SELECTED AND ARRANGED
BY THE AUTHOR OF
'A DICTIONARY OF DAILY BLUNDERS,'
'A HANDY BOOK OF SYNONYMS,'
ETC. ETC.
"The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."—Lord Bacon.
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