Ridicules Lord M. for his proverbs.

He has always had the folly and impertinence to make a jest of me for using proverbs: but as they are the wisdom of whole nations and ages collected into a small compass, I am not to be shamed out of sentences that often contain more wisdom in them than the tedious harangues of most of our parsons and moralists.

This gave me so great an aversion to the very word, that, when a child, I made it a condition with my tutor, who was an honest parson, that I would not read my Bible at all, if he would not excuse me one of the wisest books in it: to which, however, I had no other objection, than that it was called The Proverbs.

[Fr.]; melodrama, melodrame^; comidie larmoyante [Fr.], sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue; duologue trilogy^; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.

"Proverbs, XXX.

Why is all this, but with the whore in the Proverbs, to intoxicate some or other?

If dishonest, let him read or inculcate to him that 5. of Solomon's Proverbs, Ecclus. 26.

"] [Footnote 5: Lacuna.] ACCADIAN PROVERBS AND SONGS TRANSLATED BY REV.

The following is a selection from an interesting collection of Accadian songs and proverbs, gjven in a mutilated reading-book of the ancient language which was compiled for the use of Assyrian (or rather Semitic Babylonian) students.

Some of the proverbs must be taken from an agricultural treatise of the same nature as the "Works and Days" of Hesiod.

ACCADIAN PROVERBS 1 Door and bolt are made fast.

8. Interpretation of Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.

; Proverbs xiv.

Proverbs xvii.

And so we see that this passage from the book of Proverbs, teaches the same lesson of liberality that our Saviour taught when he said"Give and it shall be given unto you."

" In the nineteenth chapter of Proverbs and seventeenth verse we have a very clear proof of the lesson we are now considering.

The title at the head of them is taken from Solomon's words in one of the passages from the book of Proverbs, which we have already used.

Note, e.g., this typical contrast from the Book of Proverbs: "The path of the righteous is as the light of dawn, that shineth more and more unto the noon-tide of the day.

"The nine first chapters of the book of Proverbs are highly poetical."Ib., p.

I. Structure and Authorship of the Book of Proverbs.

Diligence justly claims the next Place to Thrift: I find both these excellently well recommended to common use in the three following Italian Proverbs, Never do that by Proxy which you can do yourself.

He knew many wise proverbs and polite salutations in French and English both, most of which he has discarded in favor of your profane and foolish teachings.

" Proverbs are sometimes local in their application.

I will conclude this notice of our proverbial reminiscences, by adding a cluster of Scottish proverbs, selected from an excellent article on the general subject in the North British Review of February 1858.

No doubt, to many of my younger readers proverbs are little known, and to all they are becoming more and more matters of reminiscence.