John Ploughman's Pictures
Spurgeon's collection of 26 proverbial lessons written for common working people, using rural and everyday imagery to teach moral and spiritual truths in an accessible, homely style rather than scholarly language.
29 Chapters
Table of Contents
1
BOOK: John Ploughman's Pictures (26 lessons)
2
A Word From Mr Moody`
3
Preface
4
Chapter 1: If The Cap Fits, Wear It
5
Chapter 2: Burn A Candle At Both Ends and It Will Soon Be Gone
6
Chapter 3: It Is Hard For An Empty Sack To Stand Upright
7
Chapter 4: A Handsaw Is A Good Thing, But Not To Shave With
8
Chapter 5: He Who Would Please All Will Lose His Donkey
9
Chapter 6: He Has A Hole Under His Nose
10
Chapter 7: A Looking Glass Is of No Use to a Blind Man
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Chapter 8: Don't Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
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Chapter 9: Every Man Should Sweep Before His Own Door
13
Chapter 10: You May Bend The Sapling but Not the Tree
14
Chapter 11: "Great Cry and Little Wool," as the Man Said Who Clipped the Sow
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Chapter 12: A Man May Love His House, Though He Ride Not On The Ridge
16
Chapter 13: Great Drinkers Think Themselves Great Men
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Chapter 14: He Lives Under The Sign of the Cat's Foot
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Chapter 15: Beware of the Dog
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Chapter 16: He Would Put His Finger In The Pie, So He Burned His Nail Off
20
Chapter 17: You Can't Catch The Wind in a Net
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Chapter 18: Like Cat Like Kit
22
Chapter 19: A Horse Which Carries a Halter Is Soon Caught
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Chapter 20: Stick To It and Do It
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Chapter 21: An Old Fox is Shy of a Trap
25
Chapter 22: A Black Hen Lays A White Egg
26
Chapter 23: Don't Put The Cart Before The Horse
27
Chapter 24: He Looks One Way and Pulls The Other
28
Chapter 25: A Leaking Tap Is A Great Waster
29
Chapter 26: Every Bird Likes His Own Nest