LESSONS IN PROVERBS BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF LECTURES DELIVERED TO YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETIES AT PORTSMOUTH AND ELSEWHERE BY RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, B. D. 99 66 AUTHOR OF "THE STUDY OF WORDS,' SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT," ETC. FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION-REVISED AND ENLARGED REDFIELD 110 AND 112 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. 1856. T72-2 PREFACE. Ir may be as well to state that the lectures which are here published were never delivered as a complete course, but only one here and two there, as matter gradually grew under my hands; yet so that very much the greater part of what is contained in this volume has been at one time or another actually delivered. Although I have always taken a lively interest in national proverbs, I had no intention at the first of making a book about them; but only selected the subject as one which I thought—though I was not confident of this-might afford me sufficient material for a single lecture, which I had undertaken some time ago to deliver. I confess that I was at that time almost entirely ignorant of the immense number and variety of books bearing on the subject. Many of these I still know only by name. With some of the best, however, I have made myself 588864 |
