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[Illustration]

[Illustration: Proverbial Philosophy]


PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY.

(THE FIRST AND SECOND SERIES.)

by

MARTIN F. TUPPER, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S.,

Of Christchurch, Oxford.

Illustrated.

A New Edition.







[Illustration]

London:
Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street.
1867.

London:
Bradbury, Evans, and Co., Printers, Whitefriars.




CONTENTS.


_FIRST SERIES._
                                                                       PAGE

 PREFATORY                                                                1
 THE WORDS OF WISDOM                                                      4
 OF TRUTH IN THINGS FALSE                                                 8
 OF ANTICIPATION                                                         12
 OF HIDDEN USES                                                          14
 OF COMPENSATION                                                         21
 OF INDIRECT INFLUENCES                                                  27
 OF MEMORY                                                               33
 THE DREAM OF AMBITION                                                   38
