Proverbs. Baer 6-16-27 15044 DEDICATION. ΤΟ All the Lovers of those Short, pithy, pointed, popular Maxims, called "Proverbs." CONCEIVING that many of the rules by which you live are false and dangerous, and that rules of life both safe and true are to be found, I have thought it my duty to illustrate these positions by recording some of the events of my life, and, with much humility, to present the Memoir to you. May, 1816. I am, &c. THE AUTHOR. CHAP. I. A Family Picture IV. The History of "Number One" V. The Way to treat an humbled Ad- VI. Another Head of the Hydra.. VII.The History of a Conformist XI. - The Way to be no Christian · XII. - An Event about which no Sceptic XIII. — Journal of a selfish and disappointed - - CONTENTS. 123 135 143 160 |
