"In John Ploughman's Talk I have tried to talk for ploughmen and common people. Hence refined taste and dainty words have been discarded for strong old proverbial expressions and homely phrases. I have aimed my blows at the vices of many, and tried to inculcate those moral virtues without which men are degraded and miserable. Much that needs to be said to the toiling masses would not suit well the pulpit and the Sabbath; these lowly pages may teach thrift and industry all the days of the week, in the cottage and the workshop: and if some learn these lessons I shall not repent the adoption of the rustic style."
—Charles Spurgeon, from the Preface
Table of Contents:
- To the Idle
- On Religious Grumblers
- On the Preacher's Appearance
- On Good Nature and Firmness
- On Patience
- On Gossips
- On Seizing Opportunities
- On Keeping One's Eyes Open
- Thoughts About Thought
- Faults
- Things Not Worth Trying
- Debt
- Home
- Men Who Are Down
- Hope
- Spending
- A Good Word for Wives
- Men with Two Faces
- Hints as to Thriving
- Tall Talk
- Things I Would Not Choose
- Try
- Monuments
- Very Ignorant People
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