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Scottish proverbs, collected and arranged PDF

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I >< 4# V444f ^4t >444<i N^f4^| >4f4ii ;>4444i fi iJljEXLiBR ^-- a/- # §A SCOTTISH PROVERBS, Scottish Proverbs. COLLECTED AND ARRANGED ANDREW HENDERSON. NEW EDITION, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES AND A GLOSSARY, JAMES DONALD, F.R.G.S,, EDITOR OF 'ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 'ENGLISH DICTIONARY,' 'HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,' ETC. LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG S: CO., PANCRAS LANE CHEAPSIDE. I 876. 12 i(^ PREFACE TO NEW EDITION. THIS edition of Henderson's Proverbs contains the whole of Henderson's Collection, without diminution or addition. The arrangement has been improved by alphabetising the entries under each heading, and explanatory notes, many of which are o taken from Kelly, are added to such proverbs as seemed CO ^ to call for them. Prefixed to the original edition was an Introductory Essay by the poet Motherwell. This, (fi which the writer himself characterized as prolix, is here ^. presented considerably abridged. is^ J. D. Q 410749 CONTENTS. Age -

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Of his collection of. " Scots Proverbs," which even in the time of Kelly (1721) was Ye didna lick your lips since you lied last. jNIanners. Meat feeds
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