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Author | : Bartlett Jere Whiting |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780674219816 |
Download Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."
Author | : Alice Sumner Varney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Readers |
ISBN | : |
Download Story Plays Old and New Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Penn. State Board of Censors of Motion Pictures |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : |
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Download List of Films, Reels and Views Examined Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Pennsylvania. State Board of Censors of Moving Pictures |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
ISBN | : |
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"... containing the names and the disposition made of more than 20,000 pictures, from ... May 15th, 1915, up to the end of the year 1917. This list will be supplemented by further lists presented at the end of each half yearly period."--Pennsylvania. State Board of Censors of Moving Pictures. Report, 1918, p. 7.
Author | : Philip Ford |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2009-12-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1910589373 |
Download George Buchanan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as 'easily the prince of poets'. Here fifteen scholars, from many countries, analyse his writings, his creative use of ancient texts for contemporary purposes, and his impact on the culture of Scotland and of Europe - not least in the spheres of tragedy and music.
Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 960 |
Release | : 2022-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982145110 |
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In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new, distinctly American culture. Drawing on decades of research, some of it in western Africa, Fischer recreates the diverse regional life that shaped the early American republic. He shows that there were varieties of slavery in America and varieties of new American culture, from Puritan New England to Dutch New York, Quaker Pennsylvania, cavalier Virginia, coastal Carolina, and Louisiana and Texas. This landmark work of history will transform our understanding of America’s origins.
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Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Calvinism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Aesop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Aesop's fables |
ISBN | : |
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One hundred twenty-six best-loved fables of Aesop.
Author | : Aesop |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1444659901 |
Download Aesop's Fables - With Numerous Illustrations by Maud U. Clarke Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book contains a delightful collection of stories and morals illustrated by Maud U. Clarke's lovely black and white ink drawings. About the author: Aesop (c. 620-560BC) is famous for his Fables which are still used as the basis of many children's plays and cartoons and to teach moral lessons today. He was born in Greece and little is known about his life except that he was a slave of Ladmon of Samos who received his freedom. Aesop probably did not personally commit his fables to the page but rather later eminent Greeks such as Socrates recorded them. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.
Author | : Jonathan Barnes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 779 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198709285 |
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Mantissa is the fourth (and last) volume of Jonathan Barnes' collected essays on ancient philosophy. It contains twenty-three papers on a diverse range of subjects, from the size of the sun to Plato and Aristotle in Victorian Oxford. One of the essays is new, and the others are all retouched or revised; six are newly translated into English.