Excerpt from Arabic Proverbs: Illustrated From Their Proverbial Sayings Current at CairoProverbs which have generally been supposed of European origin.Meidani has collected many sayings that were current among the ancient Arabs at the most bril liant period of their social state and of their language, but the present collection offers to our View a different nation and different manners, it also exhibits in some places an adulterated dialect, and alludes to vices which were probably but little known among the forefathers of the Egyptians. It proves, however, that the language is not by any means so corrupted as various travellers have imagined, and that the principles of virtue and honour, of friendship and true charity, of inde pendence and generosity, are perfectly well known to the modern inhabitants of Egypt, although very few among them take the trouble of regulating their conduct accordingly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.