Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and Illustrated
Proverbs of All Nations, published in London in 1859, is Walter K. Kelly's attempt to give English readers a general collection of proverbs arranged for comparison. He groups sayings by theme, among them women, love and marriage, parents and children, youth and age, home, friendship, luck and misfortune, caution, patience, industry and idleness, thrift, excess, habit, self-conceit and self-interest, and sets English proverbs beside their equivalents in French, Italian, Spanish, German, Latin, Scottish and many other languages, with translations and short explanations of their meaning and origin. Kelly draws on earlier collectors and on Archbishop Trench's lectures on proverbs. The book is both a reference and a lively record of shared popular wisdom. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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