Proverbs exemplified, and illustrated by pictures from real life. Teaching morality and a knowledge of the world; with prints. Designed as a succession-book to Æsop's Fables.:

Title: Proverbs exemplified, and illustrated by pictures from real life. Teaching morality and a knowledge of the world; with prints. Designed as a succession-book to Æsop's Fables.:

Author: Trusler, John, 1735-1820.

Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online

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Set a Beggar on Horseback, and he will ride to the Devil.THIS Proverb has an affinity with the last, shewing its meaning in another sense; but has rather a worldly, than a moral tendency. It implies, that put a man out of his natural sphere, and he will act like a fool. We seldom, if ever, see a proper consistency preserved by men that have been suddenly and greatly raised in life. Their 0