Proverbial Phrases

Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674219816
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Woodrow Hassell
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888443618
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle French proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases written by James Woodrow Hassell and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1982 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and published by Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195053990
Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of American Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have a gift for coining proverbs. "A picture is worth a thousand words" was not, as you might imagine, the product of ancient Chinese wisdom -- it was actually minted by advertising executive Fred Barnard in a 1921 advertisement for Printer's Ink magazine. After all, Americans are first and foremost a practical people and proverbs can be loosely defined as pithy statements that are generally accepted as true and useful. The next logical step would be to gather all of this wisdom together for a truly American celebration of shrewd advice.A Dictionary of American Proverbs is the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written ones. Listed alphabetically according to their most significant key word, it features over 15,000 entries including uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded, as well as thousands of traditional proverbs that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature. Based on the fieldwork conducted over thirty years by the American Dialect Society, this volume is complete with historical references to the earliest written sources, and supplies variants and recorded geographical distribution after each proverb.Many surprised await the reader in this vast treasure trove of wit and wisdom. Collected here are nuggets of popular wisdom on all aspects of American life: weather, agriculture, travel, money, business, food, neighbors, friends, manners, government, politics, law, health, education, religion, music, song, and dance. And, to further enhance browsing pleasure, the editors have provided a detailed guide to the use of the work. While it's true that many of our best known proverbs have been supplied by the ever-present "Anonymous," many more can be attributed to some very famous Americans, like Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Alva Edison, Abigail Adams, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to name but a few offered in this fascinating collection.Who wouldn't want to know the origin of "the opera ain't over till the fat lady sings?" This uniquely American proverb and many more are gathered together in A Dictionary of American Proverbs. A great resource for students and scholars of literature, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and cultural history, this endlessly intriguing volume is also a delightful companion for anyone with an interest in American culture.

Author : Glen El Writer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468587439
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proverbial Phrases written by Glen El Writer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Proverbial Phrases, If God could prevent each person from getting sick, then surely Lucifer would not have become satanic. The aforementioned poem is called a Proverbial Phrase. Proverbial Phrases are written with three main rules as their guide. The three-rule Proverbial Phrase handbook reads, Writers of Proverbial Phrases shall use no word more than once; should seldom, if ever, place gender at the forefront; and, each rhyme, summarized, must quickly take readers to an informative point. Although the bulk of Proverbial Phrases do not begin until halfway through this story, many phrases come thereafter. Kendall, because of child abuse, became a very frightened child. During his parents divorce, Sam, his nemesis, and his mothers new boyfriend, had beaten him until his buttocks was raw on at least two different occasions. Kendall was very afraid of the violent man and of certain other scary situations, as well. One of Kendalls favorite Proverbial Phrases reads, Proverbial Phrases mean more to me than the scariest stories are scary. Neither Kendall, nor those closest to him, knew the subtle signs of mental illness. Like many people of color, Kendalls mental issues began when he was very young. Kendall, however, received no help for his mental condition and he, therefore, became even more subtly ill as he advanced in years. One Proverbial Phrase reads, Even those that know they are ill still sometimes strongly resist being healed.

Author : George B. Bryan
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820479477
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases, Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by George B. Bryan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.RP/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Collected from the Most Authentic Sources written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jewett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabic Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases written by Jewett and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Richard Jewett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book Arabic Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases written by James Richard Jewett and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Glen El Writer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496927206
Total Pages : 117 pages
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Download or read book Pure Proverbial Phrases Volume One written by Glen El Writer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry is the summary of life. People write poems to summarize celebration and strife. Proverbial Phrases are simple words that slice like a knife. Some will praise them, while others may say they are too hard, or nice. Readers of Proverbial Phrases should read them with open minds. Dreams, science, sexuality, religion, are but a few of the items dealt with in these writings. One should know that Proverbial Phrases are written to inform readers of the writers purpose. That purpose is to stimulate others to summarize their lives. World War II veteran, Chandler Mann, handed down some of his most personal Proverbial Phrases to a youngster named Kendall Ryan Belcher. Kendall, determined to honor his mentors work, now works to see that each Proverbial Phrase is written in its purest form, straight from its purest origin, Chandler Mann. Some Proverbial Phrases may seem difficult to understand. Some Proverbial Phrases may seem too simple. Yet, one must know that each Proverbial Phrase teaches a tangible lesson. One may often have to further search out such lessons. Enjoy Pure Proverbial Phrases, whether you read them on the go or at home, and feel free to share them with anyone, wherever you roam.