This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... IT has often struck me that the old sayings of our forefathers would furnish matter not only of amusement, but of utility, were we to apply our minds to the consideration of them, with that laudable object. How frequently a proverb is used merely in the flippancy which habit has engendered, without a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... IT has often struck me that the old sayings of our forefathers would furnish matter not only of amusement, but of utility, were we to apply our minds to the consideration of them, with that laudable object. How frequently a proverb is used merely in the flippancy which habit has engendered, without a thought being given to the meaning it so pungently conveys. The frequency of its usage blunts its point -- we disregard what has become so common, in the true spirit of the saying, that "too much familiarity breeds contempt." But why should we despise proverbs? Should we not rather consider them as legacies bequeathed to us by our ancestors, from their hoarded experience, and if properly applied, perhaps more valuable than legacies of gold? No one would despise the golden legacy, because that would belong to him in particular, but as the world in general are heirs in common to the mental treasure, we Vol. i.--13 193 attach little value to what is so largely divided -- this feeling, perhaps, might be traced to a selfish motive, if the argument were pursued, but as I wish to amuse and instruct, and not to sermonize, I shall not loiter into a metaphysical discussion on the occasion, but proceed in the direct course of my observations. Old sayings, I have called the legacies bequeathed to us by our ancestors, from their hoarded experience. Might we not also consider them as treasures buried under the ruins of antiquity? How many days and nights of toil have infatuated labourers given to digging in some old castle or ancient rath, for a "crock o' gold," when their time might have been better spent in obtaining the golden advice often to be found in some of these old sayings we have likened to such treasures. It is with such a feeling that I take...
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