Part 7
Teeth--aching 4
Teeth--tongue 1635
Teeth--wolves 1821
Temper--tongue 1633
Tempers--God 1430
Tenant--bad 482
Tenants--ill 4
Texts--proverbs 1304
Thief of time 1295
Thief--opportunity 1192
Thief--receiver 1340
Thief--receivers 1341
Thief--thunder 1614
Think--live 1598
Thinks--says 1397
Thirty years 606
Thistles--brain 157
Thistles--harvest 752
Thorn--cuckoo 369
Thorns--barefoot 65
Thorns--dancing 382
Thread--draw 448
Thread--breaketh 1735
Three women 1033
Thrift--ruin 1501
Thrive--up at five 593
Thrive--plant 1352
Thrive--wive 1818
Thrown--wrestle 1862
Throws--horse 1361
Thrushes--beggars 1808
Thunder-bolt--pryeth 1306
Thursday--crosses 1094
Tide--tarry 1622
Timber--split 716
Time for study 1550
Time--season 1409
Time--sorrow 1474
Time--stitch 1532
Times--fault 553
Toil--pleasure 1261
Toilers--thinkers 1600
Toll--market 1031
Toll--talking 1582
Tom--play 1256
Tongue--shorter 468
Tongue--knot 901
Tongue--nurse's 1163
Tongue--slip 1452
Tongue speaketh 770
Tongue--strength 1822
Too late--advice 11
Too late--never 1064
Tools--edged 476
Tools--workmen 1849
Toothache--music 1125
Touchstone--love 1002
Trade--two of a 16
Trash--beggary 99
Tread on worm 1855
Treasurer--God 1497
Tree--crooked 355
Tree--falls 539
Tree--fruit 652
Trees--straight 1543
Trials--present 1346
Tricks--old dog 1176
Tries--time 1626
Trifles--troubles 1661
Trouble--bagpipe 57
Trouble--company in 295
Trouble--hunting 1714
Troubles--company 296
Troubles--dowry 723
Trough--own 1480
Trumpery--beggary 99
Trumpet--own 1283
Truss up wit 1813
Trust--speak fair 1491
Trust--try 1676
Trust not--water 1528
Truth--drunken folk 458
Truth--evasions 347
Truth--fools 242
Truth--libel 947
Truth--old saws 1184
Try--trust 1665
Tuesday--health 1094
Turncoat--wine 1797
Twig--bend 109
Twig--tree 110
Tyrant--cruelty 364
U
Unbidden guest 1476
Unkindness--cut 377
Unmissed--unknown 1689
Use--keep 882
Use--nature 1692
V
Valour--stratagem 1544
Venice Glass 351
Vessels--empty 485
Virtue--modesty 1093
Virtue--necessity 1135
Virtue's colour 138
Virtue--touchstone 1002
W
Wait--world 1851
Walk a mile 425
Walk--sun 1730
Wall--weakest 1734
Walls--ears 467
Walnut tree 85
Waste, wilful 1724
Want--strife 1547
Want, woeful 1724
Want not 1723
Ware--pleasing 1260
Ware--sell 1030
Washing--crow 362
Washing--face 1061
Waste--haste 755
Waste--spend 1496
Waste--want 1547
Water--cat 1401
Water--deepest 402
Water--drink 450
Water--famine 544
Water--fire 580
Water--wine 1792
Waters--deep 726
Waters--still 1530
Waters--troubled 591
Way--will 1776
Wealth--contentment 315
Wealth--marries 1037
Wealth--wife 1764
Wealth--Monday 1094
Wealthy--wise 1805
Weapon--wit 1814
Weary--well-doing 1751
Weather--bad 1470
Weather--calm 879
Weather--fair 1740
Weather--rainy 880
Weather--thunder 1613
Weather--wind 1789
Wedded life 76
Wedlock--wake 333
Wednesday--best day 1094
Weed--poison 127
Weeds--words 1833
Weight--strife 1546
Weights--words 1836
Well done--once 1187
Well--dry 1729
Well--truth 1669
Weep--Sunday 638
Weeping Cross 998
Wet--mist 1406
Whale--sprat 1512
Wickedness--woe 1819
Wife--bier 194
Wife--gentle 831
Wife--grumbles 1553
Wife--good terms 1536
Wife--key 885
Wife, little 976
Wife, one good 1762
Wife--son 1467
Wiles, caught by 1768
Will--way 1731
Will--lean 895
Will, woman's 1825
Win--laugh 921
Wind--against 1504
Wind--puff not 1308
Wind--sheep 1430
Wind--south [fishing] 589
Wind--words 1838
Window 1277
Winds--contrary 348
Winds--high 783
Winds--March 38
Winds--rain 688
Wine--barrel 75
Wine--counsels 320
Wine--old 1180
Wings--covers me 336
Wings--flying 600
Winter--Candlemas 192
Winter--green 729
Winter--warm 1720
Winter--woodcock, one 1828
Winter--woodcock 1567
Winter wind 1082
Wisdom--husband 831
Wisdom--age 905
Wise--adversity 5
Wise--some 1197
Wise--word enough 1839
Wise--forty 741
Wise--himself 785
Wise--lucky 1016
Wise--merry 1069
Wise--penny 1232
Wise--twice 1682
Wise folk 611
Wishers and woulders 814
Wist, had I 117
Wit--brevity 163
Wit, mother 1114
Wit, need of 673
Wit--pound of 430
Wit--sloth 1453
Wit is out 1796
Wit's plough 1225
Wiving--counsel 321
Wiving--destiny 411
Woe--angry men 31
Woe--hasty men 757
Woe--wilful man 1770
Wolf--growing youth 1873
Woman--beaten 85
Woman--fair 386
Woman--head 763
Woman--rules 1348
Woman--silence 1439
Woman--tongue 1639
Woman--weep 1745
Woman's mind 1082
Woman's tongue 913
Woman's work 1823
Woman's yes 1868
Women--discreet 429
Women--drive 1349
Women--England 488
Women--glasses 680
Women--turned 1679
Women--words 1837
Wood--beans 78
Wood--old 1180
Wood--out of 791
Wood--trees 1657
Woodcock--winter 1567, 1828
Woodcock's thigh 1211
Woods--ears 576
Wool--little 368
Wool--shaving 1422
Word--true 1663
Words--leaves 403
Words--soft 1465
Words--wranglers 1860
Words swim 1793
Work--all 1257
Work--play 1256
Work--quick 1324
Work--slavery 1448
Work--woman's 1823
Workman--bad 1642
Workman--tools 1643
Work on 470
Workshops--devil's 832
World--enjoys it 714
World--fashion 550
World's end 872
Worm--bird 465
Worth--spend 1499
Worth--want 1712
Worthy--parents 1210
Wound--green 728
Wound--words 1835
Wound--evil 510
Wounds--afraid of 12
Wrinkled--faces 1321
Wrinkles--purse 483
Wrong--forget 1356
Wrong--losers 997
Y
Young--idle 835
Young--spare 1485
Young men--die 422
Young men--woo 1827
Youth--follies 601
Youth--money 1099
Youth--old age 1171
Youth--reckless 1342
Youth--save 1390
Youth--time 1625
THE END.
A DICTIONARY OF DAILY BLUNDERS.
_Containing a Collection of Mistakes often made in Speaking and Writing._
CORRECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES,
AND ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
BY THE AUTHOR OF
'A HANDY BOOK OF SYNONYMS,' 'A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PROVERBS,' ETC. ETC.
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A dictionary has just been published, enumerating the common blunders of speech and writing, which are constantly perpetrated. Such a work seems, at first sight, a very formidable undertaking, and the complete mastery of its text promises many a wretched quarter of an hour to those on whom its valuable information is inflicted. . . . There are some mistakes which appear to be ineradicable, and will not be corrected, even if the Blunder Dictionary arrives at its thousandth edition. . . . Next to the slave who attended a Roman Emperor in triumph to remind him that he was mortal . . . surely the object most to be dreaded is the editor of a Dictionary of Blunders, arranged on such a complete and systematic plan, as to form a court of appeal to which every household can be conveniently referred. . . . The volume is actually published, and contains 126 closely printed pages, containing examples of errors that are to be found in the daily speech even of well-educated persons. . . . The Editor is to be thanked for his useful book.--_Daily Telegraph._
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A useful aid to correct speech.--_Literary World._
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_Excerpts from the Press Notices of Familiar Latin Quotations and Proverbs._
A translation of the Latin phrases which are of most common use in the literature of the day, which is likely to be useful.--_The Echo._
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A very handy little book. It contains, arranged in alphabetical order, all the most common Latin quotations with their signification, and many which are not so well known. The author has been careful in doing his work, and has produced a really good little book of reference.--_Scotsman._
To those whose classical education has been wholly neglected the work will be found to be a suitable "Vade mecum," and even to those who learnt a good deal of Latin at school it will be found to be highly useful.--_North British Advertiser._
It is a most admirable compilation. We can heartily recommend it as a book of reference, and from which most genuine instruction can be extracted.--_Glasgow Citizen._
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A very useful little work which will be invaluable to the reader whose studies have not included the classic languages. In the space of 120 pages are compressed no fewer than fifteen hundred Latin words, phrases, and proverbs, frequently met with in newspapers, political or philosophical works, law books, etc. We have looked over the book carefully, and tested it by searching for less usual quotations; but in every case we have found what we sought. Each phrase is rendered as literally as the construction of the English and Latin languages will admit; and where necessary a paraphrase or explanation is appended in addition.--_Irish Times._
_FAMILIAR ENGLISH QUOTATIONS._
The object of this little volume is to trace the Familiar Quotations so constantly in use to their proper authorship, and to correct the errors so frequently made by public speakers and writers. The origin of such everyday sayings as
"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day,"
(erroneously supposed to be in Butler's "Hudibras,") and a number of other phrases of a like character, is given, and the _exact place_ of them in the different authors' works is recorded.
The errors constantly made in quoting are remarkable. The author of an interesting volume, comprising many well-known passages, names "Hudibras" as containing the lines
"They that in quarrels interpose, Will often wipe a bloody nose."
In an essay on "Misquotations," which recently appeared in a very ably conducted newspaper, the object of the writer being to _correct_ the blunders constantly made, he falls into the usual mistake of quoting Nat. Lee as writing
"When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war,"
and a learned and eminent divine, a certain Dr. B., some years ago, in the presence of a large party, obstinately insisted that
"A man convinced against his will"
was a correct passage from "Hudibras," and was only satisfied as to his blunder by the production of Butler's immortal work. Even so accomplished a scholar as Mr. Gladstone--_quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus_--errs; in a recently published number of the _Nineteenth Century_, quoting Byron's words,
"The bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony,"
he names them as occurring in "Childe Harold," instead of in "Don Juan."
LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
The following corrections have been made to the text:
Page ii: 2. FAMILIAR FRENCH QUOTATIONS & PROVERBS.[period missing in original]
Page 9: Bread and butter are glad to eat.[period missing in original]
Page 26: 445.[period missing in original] DOOR. When one door shuts another opens.
Page 45: HONOUR. Better[original has Bettter] poor with honour
Page 62: 1099. MONEY. The abundance of money ruins youth.[period missing in original]
Page 64: 1135. NECESSITY. Make a virtue of necessity.[period missing in original]
Page 74: so crows the young.[period missing in original]
Index entries were changed to match the spelling and hyphenation in the main text. Proverb numbers were corrected when necessary. The changes are as follows:
Page 107: Age—rueful 1342[original has 1343]
Page 107: Appetite 475[original has 495]
Page 108: Birdcall[original has Bird--call]
Page 108: Birds--little 970[original has 940]
Page 108: Bone--tongue 1636[original has 1616]
Page 109: Branch--roost[original has root]
Page 109: Butter-cakes[original has Buttercakes]
Page 109: Candle-stick[original has Candlestick]
Page 110: Churchyard--May 810[original has 809]
Page 110: Cloth--coat[original has cost]
Page 110: Cold--soon 1468[original has 1469]
Page 112: Easy chair[original has Easy-chair]--frugality
Page 112: Elbow grease[original has Elbow-grease]
Page 112: Estate--trade 1647[original has 501]
Page 112: Evening--red 501[original has 1647]
Page 112: Face--painting 1061[original has 1051]
Page 112: Fast-day[original has Fast day]
Page 112: Fault--woo[original has woe]
Page 112: Feathers--fine 563[original has 535]
Page 113: Fish--cat[original has eat]
Page 113: Fish--small--venture 1700[original has 1458]
Page 113: Fish--small 1458[original has 1700]
Page 113: Folk--poor, pottage 1369[original has 1269]
Page 113: Forehead--mind[original has wind]
Page 114: Friday--sing[original has sup]
Page 114: Garner--dearth[original has death]
Page 114: Gate--stile[original has still]
Page 114: Gentleman--coat[original has cost]
Page 115: Groat a year[original has a-year]
Page 115: Hawk--hand-saw[original has handsaw]
Page 115: Heart sick[original has Heart-sick]
Page 115: Horse-manger[original has Horse--manger]
Page 116: House--well-ordered[original has well ordered]
Page 116: the section header I" has been added
Page 116: Ill--doing[original has Ill-doing]
Page 116: Ill fortune[original has Ill-fortune]
Page 116: Ill wed[original has Ill-wed]
Page 117: Ladder--crosses 359[original has 912]
Page 117: Laugh--hearts ache[original has heartache]
Page 117: Law breakers[original has Law-breakers]
Page 117: Life--end[original has Life's end]
Page 117: Lion, dead--dog 986[original has 987]
Page 118: Love, subjects'[original has subject's]
Page 119: Master's--wine[original has Master's wine]
Page 119: May--hot 810[original has 809]
Page 119: Mice--cat's[original has cat] away
Page 119: Morning--grey[original has gray]
Page 119: Mote--self love[original has self-love]
Page 119: Muck[original has Much]--riches
Page 119: Night--stumble[original has slumber]
Page 119: No--woman's 1868[original has 1861]
Page 119: Noland[original has No-land]--title
Page 120: Old block[original has clock]
Page 120: Ounce--mischief 1086[original has 1686]
Page 120: Ox--drink 450[original has 456]
Page 120: Pater-noster[original has Paternoster]--churches
Page 122: Ribs--birchen twigs[original has birchen-twigs]
Page 122: Seven--[original has comma]rise at
Page 122: Shave--hand-saw[original has handsaw]
Page 123: Silver lining--cloud[original has clouds]
Page 123: Soberness--conceals[original has concealed]
Page 123: Spain--wine 450[original has 456]
Page 123: Spending--bung-hole[original has bunghole]
Page 124: Story--re-telling[original has retelling]
Page 124: Sun shines[original has Sunshine]--moon
Page 124: Tar--ship[original has ships]
Page 124: Tenants--ill[original has bad]
Page 124: Thief--receiver 1340[original has 1341]
Page 124: Thief--receivers 1341[original has 1340]
Page 124: Thistles--harvest 752[original has 732]
Page 125: Trough--own 1480[original has 1478]
Page 125: Use--nature 1692[original has 373]
Page 126: Will--women[original has Will, woman's]
Page 126: Wind--words 1838[original has 1000]
Page 126: Wisdom--husband[original has harbour]