EASTERN PROVERBS AND EMBLEMS
Trübner’s Oriental Series EASTERN PROVERBS AND EMBLEMS Trübner’s Oriental Series ANCIENT NEAR EAST In 6 Volumes I The History of Esarhaddon Ernest A Budge II Studies in Biblical and Semitic Symbolism Maurice H Farbridge III A Talmudic Miscellany Paul lsaac Hershon IV Eastern Proverbs and Emblems J Long V Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages De Lacy O’Leary VI Comparative History of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian Religions C P Tiele EASTERN PROVERBS AND EMBLEMS ILLUSTRATING OLD TRUTHS J LONG EASTERN PROVERBS AND EMBLEMS lLLUSTRATlNG OLD TRUTHS BY THE REV. J. LONG MEMBER OF THE BENGAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, F.R.G.S. LONDON TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL 1881 [All rights reserved] Preface. THE materials from which this little work has been compiled are scattered over more than 1000 volumes, some very rare, and to be consulted only in libraries in India, Russia and other parts of the Continent, or in the British Museum. The field has been so wide and the material...