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Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient ...

 By Thomas Fuller, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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By Thomas Fuller, Pre
-1801 Imprint Collection
(Library of Congress)
Compiled by Thomas
Fuller
Published 1732
Printed for B. Barker
Proverbs
297 pages
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Jul 13, 2007
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English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT138936. - Reproduction of original from the British Library

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Groat, muft, Horfe
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fmall, flie, muft
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Friendfliip, Hackney, God fend
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worfe, fafe, lofeth
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firft, He'll, moots
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Groat, Honeft Men, He's fo
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honeft Men, fliall, increafe
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Brains, Belly, Cloth
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fows, Chapel, Heart
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Vicar of Bray, lefs, ftir
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Wool, Shilling, Broth
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Twill, Muft, Janiveer
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Beaft, fliorteft, Corn
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moft approved Receipts, Holy Sacrament, alfo

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A friend that you buy with presents, will be bought from you. - Page 5

Though prayer should be the key of the day, and the lock of the night, yet I hold it more needful in the morning, than when our bodies do take their repose. - Page 167

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Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings. Ancient ...

by Thomas Fuller - Proverbs - 1816 - 204 pages
Published also under title: Aphorisms of wisdom: or, A complete collection of the most celebratedproverbs ... Glasgow, 1814.
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