PROVERBS, AND THEIR LESSONS, BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF LECTURES DELIVERED TO YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETIES. BY RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D.D. ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. SIXTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1869. All rights reserved. PREFACE TC THE FIRST EDITION. THE HE Lectures here published were never delivered as a complete course, but only one here and two there, as little by little the materials grew under my hands; yet so that very much the larger part of what is contained in this volume has been at one time or another actually. delivered. I publish them, because none of the works on Proverbs which I know is exactly that book for all readers which I could have wished to see. Either they include matter which cannot be fitly placed before all-or they address themselves to the scholar alone, or if not so, are at any rate inaccessible to the mere English reader-or they contain bare lists of proverbs, with no endeavour to compare, illustrate, and explain them -or if they seek to explain, yet they do it without attempting to sound the depths, or measure the real significance, of that they undertake to unfold. From these or other causes it has come to pass, that with a multitude of books, many of them admirable, on a subject so popular, there is no single one which is frequent in the hands of men. I will not deny that, with all the slightness and shortcomings of my own, I have still hoped to supply, at least for the present, this deficiency. ITCHENSTOKE: December 13, 1857. |
