A compleat collection of English proverbs;
also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages, the whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explications.
By the late Rev. and learned J. Ray, to which is added, (written by the same author) A collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues, the one of such as are proper to the northern, the other, to the southern counties, with an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England.

Description

Main Author

Ray, John, 1627-1705

Language(s)

English

Published

London, Printed for T. and J. Allman [etc.] 1817.

Edition

Reprinted verbatim from the edition of 1768.

Subjects

Metallurgy > Metallurgy / Early works to 1800.
English language > English language / Obsolete words
English language > English language / Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language > English language / Provincialisms
Proverbs, English.
Proverbs

Note

"A collection of English words" (p. [217]-308) was published as a separate work in 1674.

Physical Description

vi, 308 p. 19 cm.

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