Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, & c., & c. from Writers of All Ages and Both Hemispheres

William M White

J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1853

[Fine binding] Bound in publisher's tooled leather.  Meander boarder stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Gilt decoration on front cover. viii, 564 pages ; 21 cm.  A compilation of quotations from the work of great authors, arranged alphabetically by subject. Adversity is one of the early subjects and the book includes quotes about adversity by Horace, Shakespeare, Byron, Addison, etc.