Proverb Lore: Many Sayings, Wise Or Otherwise ...

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By Frederick Edward
Hulme

Published 1902
E. Stock

269 pages

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized Oct 26, 2006

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CHAPTER I	1
proverbs, adages, malas
CHAPTER II	26
adages, jacula, proverbs
CHAPTER IV	90
proverbios, gude, thegither
CHAPTER V	124

CHAPTER VI	1
jacula, vilains, popular sayings
CHAPTER VII	194
thow, tusser, kepe

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JSTOR: An Introductory Bibliography for the Study of Proverbs
The most useful works which give a general survey of proverb lore in a single alphabet are Ida von [Reinsberg-] Dirings- feld and 0. ...
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Biennial Report - Page 66
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Proverb Lore
by Frederick Edward Hulme - 2003 - 276 pages
This book is a historical study of the similarities, contrasts, topics, meanings and other facets ofproverbs, truisms and pithy sayings, as expressed by the peoples of many lands...
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Proverb Lore: Many Sayings, Wise Or Otherwise, on Many Subjects, Gleaned from Many Sources
by Frederick Edward Hulme - 1906 - 269 pages
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Dunstable - Page 154
As plain as the Dun- stable road " sounds straightforward enough, especially when we recall that Dunstable is on Watling Street, one of the noble main ...
more pages: 155

Banbury - Page 153
Such saws as, " Grantham gruel, nine grits and a bucket of water," or "Like Banbury tinkers, that mend one hole aid make three," we may be sure did ...
more pages: 155

Bolton - Page 151
Another proverb, "Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton," has a certain historic interest. A collection of proverbs was presented by its compiler to Queen ...

Tiberias - Page 253
The friends of a Roman patrician condemned by Tiberias to death, dwelt strongly on the injustice of the sentence. ...

Gateshead - Page 157
When a man of Newcastle-on-Tyne suspected his companion of anything doubtful he would say, " Let's have no Gateshead," marking the popular local ...

Derby - Page 176
new under the sun," and that the equivalent of Strasburg pate1 has been an appreciated delicacy for many years before Derby hampers were dreamt of.

Cambridge - Page 147
One Tobias Hobson was an innkeeper and carrier at Cambridge, and a man of considerable local influence. He was said to be the first man in England ...
more pages: 31 204

Barcelona - Page 104
while so recently as 1815 was published in Barcelona the " Refranes de la Langua Castellana," and to this list others could no doubt be added. ...

Huntingdon - Page 154
Thus Beggar's Bush, near Huntingdon, suggests that a man " Goes home by Beggar's Bush" when his means are dwindling away. ...

Florence - Page 34
This garbled version was published in Florence in the year 1575, the name of the author being suppressed, but the book had ere this passed through so ...
more pages: 77 107

Rome - Page 24
When Caesar reported his success to Rome in the words " Veni, vidi, vici," there can be little doubt that by both sender and recipients it was ...
more pages: 2 26 95 138

Coventry - Page 154
tary, it probably arose in the place, as, for instance, " True as Coventry blue," an allusion to an excellent dye for which the town was noted ...

Cairo - Page 115
John Lewis Burckhardt, after a very long residence in Cairo, made a collection of these, and they were published under the title of ...

Salisbury - Page 111
The burnt child dreads the fire in Samoa as in Salisbury, and that prosperity makes friends, and adversity proves them, is a piece of world-wide ...

Paris - Page 102
Cahier, published in Paris in 1836, to the " Livre des proverbes Francis" of Le Roux de Lincy, 1859, or the " Petite Encyclopedic des proverbes ...
more pages: 33 77 104

London - Page 155
The dwellers in the little town of Ware were pleased to say that it was " worth all London." Fuller, who wrote a delightful folio on the counties of ...
more pages: 78 107

Athens - Page 2
Owls to Athens," the woods of Attica yielding these birds in abundance, while the city itself, under the special guardianship of Pallas Athene, had, ...

Damascus - Page 3
encouragement, or reproof, is as much a part of the equipment of life to the date-seller of Damascus as to the ploughman in an English shire. ...

Warrington - Page 263
t One Richard Nichols, of Warrington, writing in 1670 or thereabouts. Many of his sayings are admirable; here are half-a-dozen of them: "Self-denial ...

Northampton - Page 25
Examples will be found in England in Hadleigh Church, Suffolk ; West Shefford, Berks ; Clipston Church, Northampton ; Worlingworth Church, Suffolk; ...

Clay, Miss - Page 237
Mere loquacity is satirised in the two following:— " Here lies, returned to Clay, Miss Arabella Young, Who, on the first of May, Began to hold her ...

Guelph - Page 77
This sealed the fatal determination, the die was cast, Boundelmonte was murdered, and thus was Florence at once involved in the strife between Guelph ...

Boston - Page 62
Franklin was born on January 6th, 1706, at Boston, and there is no doubt that his sterling common-sense and quaint philosophy must have had a ...