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<p>CONTENTS 
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Introduction v
PROVERBS. 
Select Proverbs of all Nations 1
Religion, Virtue, and Learning 55 
Laws, Government, and Public Affairs 75 
Economy, Manners, and Riches 83 
Women, Love, and Wedlock 107 
Health and Diet 121 
Husbandry and Weather 127 
English Local Proverbs 130 
Familiar Phrases 144 
Similies and Old Saws 154 
Proverbial Rhymes 155 
PART II. 
SUMMARY OF ANCIENT PASTIMES, HOLIDAYS, CUSTOMS, CEREMONIES, AND SUPERSTITIONS. 
PASTIMES AND HOLIDAYS. 
General History of Popular Sports 162 
Hand-ball 164 
Stool-ball 165 
Foot-ball 165 
Pall-mall ib. 
Golf ib. 
Cricket ib. 
Running at the Quintain ib. 
Hock-day 166 
Sheep-shearing and the Harvest Supper ib. 
Advent of the New Year ib. 
Fairs 167 
May-Games ib. 
Whitsuntide-Holidays 168 
Country Wakes ib. 
Remarks ib. 
CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES. 
Midsummer-Eve 169 
Valentine-Day ib. 
Collop-Monday ib. 
Hallow-Eve 170 
The Boy-Bishop b. 
The Montem at Etn 171 
Royal Oak Day 172
The Passing Bell ib. 
Mothering Sunday ib. 
All Fools' Day 173 
Maunday Thursday ib. 
St Patrick's Day ib. 
Parochial Perambulations 174 
Michaelmas Goose ib. 
CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS. 
Hagmena 175 
Mumming ib.
Christmas Candles ib.
The Twelfth Day ib. 
Evergreens 176 
Christmas Boxes ib. 
A Christmas Carol ib. 
POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS 
Ghosts 180
Witches 
A Sorcerer or Magician 
Fairies, Elves, Knockers, and Brownies 
Second Sight 
Omens, Charms, and Divination ib. 
Remarks 189 
VULGAR ERRORS. 
Legal Errors 192 
Errors in Natural History 193 
"The Rose of Jericho" ib. 
Pictorial Errors ib. 
Errors on Man 194 
Historical Errors 195 
Miscellaneous Errors 196 
PART III. 
ANALYSIS OF THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS, AND OF THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH. 
Avant-Propos igg 
Anger 199 
Ancestors ib. 
Manners 200 
Eating and Drinking 201 
Eloquence 202 
Friendship 203 
Folly ib. 
Industry ib. 
Justice 204 
Kings and Laws ib 
Life and Death 205 
Love 206 
Riches and Poverty ib 
Public Officers 297 
Truth ib. 
Time 206 
Virtue ib. 
Wisdom 210 
Women 212
Miscellaneous Maxims 231 
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<br>Subjects: Proverbs</div>
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Wade, John, 1788-1875, ed</div>
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