COMBINING

ATTRACTIVENESS WITH USEFUL INSTRUCTION, AND
FORMING A STOREHOUSE OF POPULAR WISDOM.

BY JOHN R. BEARD, D.D.,

AUTHOR OF "SELF-CULTURE," &c.

MANCHESTER :

JOHN HEYWOOD, 143, DEANSGATE, AND BRAZENNOSE STREET.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & Co., AND HOULSTON & WRIGHT.

MANCHESTER:

JOHN HEYWOOD, PRINTER BY STEAM POWER, DEANSGATE, AND BRAZENNOSE STREET

CONTENTS.

DEDICATION TO PESTALOZZI.

PREFACE, showing among other things How this Manual is

to be used or studied.

PART I.

A selection of PROVERBS of various nations and ages,

FLORILEGIUM; a Garden of SWEET FLOWERS and USEFUL

HERBS offered to beginners in learning for their

pleasure and profit .

pages 93 to 171