A polyglot of foreign proverbs: comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English translations, and a general index

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&£oo AilSS3AINn 3H1— QEOEGE BELL & SONS. WEBSTER'S COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, AND GENERAL BOOK OF LITERARY REFERENCE. With 3000 Illustrations. Tho- roughly revised and improved by Chauncey A. Goodrich, D.D., D.D.,LL.D., and Noah Porter, of Yale College. In One Volume, Quarto, strongly bound in cloth, 1840 pages, price £1 lis. Gd.; half-calf, £2; calf or half-russia, £2 2*.; russia, £2 10s. comprised theBesides the matter in Webster's Guinea Dictionary, this Tolume contains the following Appendices, which will show that no pains have been spared to make it a complete Literary Reference-book : EnglishA Brief History of the Lan- A Pronouncing Vocabulary of Scrip- guage. By Professor Jahks Hadlet. ture Proper Names. By W. 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