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Ye’ll No Sell Your Hen on a Rainy Day: and other canny Scottish proverbs by Allan Ramsay
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About the Book:
A collection of proverbs in the original Scots, and translated into English covering family, work, money, self-Improvement and food and drink amongst other topics.
Scots proverbs tell it like it is, and provide advice for a myriad of situations. This pocketsize volume would make an excellent souvenir or a gift for any occasion.
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Without doubt Allan Ramsay is an unsung hero of Scottish poetry… It is fair to say without Ramsay there would be no Robert Burns. PROF. GERARD CARRUTHERS, University of Glasgow
Allan Ramsay was not only a pioneer of the Romantic movement and a collector and editor of Scots songs; he was also a cultural innovator of the Enlightenment. PROF. MURRAY PITTOCK, University of Glasgow
About the Author:
ALLAN RAMSAY was a Scottish poet born in Lanarkshire in 1686. He wrote poetry in Scots and English as well as working as a publisher, a librarian, and a wig maker. He collected the sayings of Scotland as A Collection of Scots Proverbs, first published in in the 18th century. This revised volume of proverbs has been selected and translated by Luath Press.
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