An Essay Towards a Collection of Books Relating to Proverbs, Emblems, Apophthegms, Epitaphs and Ana: Being a Catalogue of Those at KeirPrivately printed, ‡c MDCCCLX [1860], 1860 - 244 pages |
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Page 7 - PROVERBS, Handbook of. Containing an entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with his additions from Foreign Languages and a complete Alphabetical Index; in which are introduced large additions as well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases, collected by HG Bohn. 5*.
Page 76 - A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs; ALSO THE MOST CELEBRATED PROVERBS OF THE SCOTCH, ITALIAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, and other Languages. The whole Methodically Digested and Illustrated with Annotations, and proper Explications.
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Page 160 - A COLLECTION OF EMBLEMES. ANCIENT AND MODERNE. Quickened With METRICALL ILLUSTRATIONS both Morall and Divine : And Disposed into LOTTERIES, That Instruction, and Good Counsell may bee furthered by an Honest and Pleasant Recreation.
Page 159 - A Choice of Emblemes, and other Devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized, And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney.
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