Proverbs and Their Lessons
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- Being the Subject of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and Elsewhere
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1. PROVERBS AND THEIR LESSONS.2. PREFACE.3. LECTURE I. THE FORM AND DEFINITION OF A PROVERB.4. LECTURE II. THE GENERATION OF PROVERBS.5. LECTURE III. THE PROVERBS OF DIFFERENT NATIONS COMPARED.6. LECTURE IV. THE POETRY, WIT, AND WISDOM OF PROVERBS.7. LECTURE V. THE MORALITY OF PROVERBS.8. LECTURE VI. THE THEOLOGY OF PROVERBS.9. APPENDIX. ON THE METRICAL LATIN PROVERBS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. (See p. 29.)