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Book A Fig for Fortune  Classic Reprint

Download or read book A Fig for Fortune Classic Reprint written by Anthonie Copley and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Fig for FortuneLie vale-bred Mufe to heauen-high Mont-ague Honoring thy playneffe with fo quaint afpire: It is a haggard Hawke that neuer knew The Fawlkoners fift It is a drowfie fire That yeelds nor flame nor fume; It is an idle voyce That nere was hard to tune nor found, nor note nor Great Mont-ague; thrife great in Vertues glorie And therfore dulie great in my affections, Whom not a Pick-thanke fpirit of flatterie But well aduifed zeale to your perfections Mooues to inftile you foz Though likewife fo you be In the fublimitie of your blood and Vicomptie. Daigne in your grace the fpirit of a man Difaftred for vertue if at leafi: it be Difafter to be winnowed out Fortunes Fan Into the Fan of Grace and Sionrie Wherin repurify'd to Gods eternall glorie The Deuill rues in man old Adams injuric. Though meane and merit-leffe the Mufe may feeme To your aduice as not from Helicon, Yet well I hope the matter will redeeme That frail default, as fpirited from Sim: If S ions holie name be gracious to your eare Hold it in gree elfe for the zeale to you I beare, At leaf't your happie Names faire liueric let it weare.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.

Book A Master of Fortune  Classic Reprint

Download or read book A Master of Fortune Classic Reprint written by Julian Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Master of Fortune It was after twelve, and the river lay in a blaze of summer light when Carteret and Seafeld rowed up in their pair-oar to bathe at the weir. A melancholy brooded on the stream in spite of all the dancing of myriads of sunbeams, in spite of the glad voices of younger boys sporting in and out of the water at "Upper Hope" and at "Athens," names eloquent of the future and of the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Book Culturgeschichtliche Novellen

Download or read book Culturgeschichtliche Novellen written by W. H. Riehl and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Culturgeschichtliche Novellen It is as in some sort an introduction to such a study of German as I have endeavoured to indicate, so far as this is possible under the limitations of a commentary on a given text, that the present volume has been prepared. The notes are numerous and copious, but I trust they will commend themselves as not of the kind that paralyse the student's own mental activity by superseding the necessity for it; but rather as stimulating it by presenting suitable material in a workable form, and furnishing guidance in such a way as to lead to future independence. The material has of course been supplied in the first place by the text itself. This has been to a small extent supplemented, but chiefly elucidated and illustrated, by matter drawn from sources many of them inaccessible to the English reader. A not inconsiderable element may lay some claim to origi nality, and perhaps this will be the most valuable part of the book to the real student, because treating from the objective standpoint of the foreigner, specially of the Englishman, matters of idiomatic difficulty upon which only scattered hints are to be found in sources English or German. I may refer particularly to the notes on the particles, on the exact force, as felt in the original, of words like erst, z'ibrzlgms, vol lends, &c., and of certain familiar but peculiar modes of con ception and expression which are too completely ingrained in the consciousness of a native for him easily to make them the objects of analysis or of explanation to others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Book Four for a Fortune

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  • Author : Albert Lee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-07-09
  • ISBN : 9781331664710
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Four for a Fortune written by Albert Lee and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Four for a Fortune: A Tale Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find Private messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude dropped for them in every comer, The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Book The Collector  Containing Articles and Illustrations  Reprinted from The Queen Newspaper  of Interest to the Great Body of Collectors  on China  Engravings  Etc

Download or read book The Collector Containing Articles and Illustrations Reprinted from The Queen Newspaper of Interest to the Great Body of Collectors on China Engravings Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fig Tree  Classic Reprint

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  • Author : Aubrey Menen
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-11-07
  • ISBN : 9780260517074
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book The Fig Tree Classic Reprint written by Aubrey Menen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fig Tree Young Harry did not feel he could do much about stopping people destroying themselves in war, but their other possible fate deeply engaged his thoughts. By the time he was fourteen he had decided that when he grew up he would save humanity. Thus when other boys of his age dreamed of being Olympic champions or unbeatable boxers, Harry dreamed of grateful nations unveiling statues to himself as their saviour. To be a saviour he had, of course, to be a scientist, and this he made up his mind to be. From that time onward, he allowed nothing to get in the way of his ambition. He gave up going to chapel, because he noted that scientists had little use for religion; he gave up the Boy Scouts, because they were too cheerful for his serious frame of mind; and he gave up football, which he enjoyed, because it took up too much of his time. On his sixteenth birthday, his headmaster called him to his study, and asked him in a paternal way if he had given any thought as to what he wanted to do in life. Harry said, in his serious treble. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Book A master of fortune

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  • Author : Julian Russell Sturgis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book A master of fortune written by Julian Russell Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tuffy Bean and the Lost Fortune  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Tuffy Bean and the Lost Fortune Classic Reprint written by Leo Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tuffy Bean and the Lost Fortune It was his story, as dished out to me at various times during our brief acquaintance, that he had been raised by a doctor. SO naturally he would know a lot about aches and pains. But that hardly justified him in getting a new ailment every time he turned around. And at times, if you must know the truth, his continued laments got blamed tiresome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Book Billy Fortune  Classic Reprint

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  • Author : William Rheem Lighton
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-05-19
  • ISBN : 9780259555209
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Billy Fortune Classic Reprint written by William Rheem Lighton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Billy Fortune I ain't goin' to tell you about the Daphne girl nor the able-minded Lady right now. I want to ask you another question first. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Book Fortune Favors the Duke

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  • Author : Kristin Vayden
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2021-12-28
  • ISBN : 1728234328
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Fortune Favors the Duke written by Kristin Vayden and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Ella Quinn, Amelia Grey, and Bridgerton comes the first in a new historical romance series with all your favorite tropes: Friends to lovers romance Forbidden romance Reluctant dukes Tight-knit family saga The new Duke has a proper scandal brewing. Quinton Errington is perfectly happy teaching at Cambridge, with his elder brother carrying the duties of being the Duke of Wesley. But when a trip to celebrate Wesley's last week of bachelorhood ends in tragedy, Quinton, who becomes the Duke, would give anything to have his brother back. Wesley's would-be bride, Catherine Greatheart, is left heartbroken and alone. Her grandmother has fallen ill, and Catherine has nowhere left to turn but to the family she was so close to being part of. The new Duke is kind, and she could use a friend. Between learning how to be the head of his family, mourning his brother, and trying not to fall in love with his late-brother's fiancée, Quinton will need some help—and it's a good thing he's not alone. "Flawless storytelling! Vayden is a new Regency powerhouse."—Rachel Van Dyken, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Book The Midnight Thief

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  • Author : Sylvia Bishop
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-08-05
  • ISBN : 9780702301483
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Midnight Thief written by Sylvia Bishop and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transplanted from her exciting life as an explorer's daughter, Freya finds herself miserable at a posh boarding school. Freya hates all the boring rules, the other girls are mean to her, and the headmistress is frosty good manners personified.

Book The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

Download or read book The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook written by Deb Perelman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Celebrated food blogger and best-selling cookbook author Deb Perelman knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion—from salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe. “Innovative, creative, and effortlessly funny." —Cooking Light Deb Perelman loves to cook. She isn’t a chef or a restaurant owner—she’s never even waitressed. Cooking in her tiny Manhattan kitchen was, at least at first, for special occasions—and, too often, an unnecessarily daunting venture. Deb found herself overwhelmed by the number of recipes available to her. Have you ever searched for the perfect birthday cake on Google? You’ll get more than three million results. Where do you start? What if you pick a recipe that’s downright bad? With the same warmth, candor, and can-do spirit her award-winning blog, Smitten Kitchen, is known for, here Deb presents more than 100 recipes—almost entirely new, plus a few favorites from the site—that guarantee delicious results every time. Gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of her beautiful color photographs, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook is all about approachable, uncompromised home cooking. Here you’ll find better uses for your favorite vegetables: asparagus blanketing a pizza; ratatouille dressing up a sandwich; cauliflower masquerading as pesto. These are recipes you’ll bookmark and use so often they become your own, recipes you’ll slip to a friend who wants to impress her new in-laws, and recipes with simple ingredients that yield amazing results in a minimum amount of time. Deb tells you her favorite summer cocktail; how to lose your fear of cooking for a crowd; and the essential items you need for your own kitchen. From salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe Cake, Deb knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion. Look for Deb Perelman’s latest cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers!

Book The Poster

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ruth E. Iskin
  • Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
  • Release : 2014-10-07
  • ISBN : 1611686172
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book The Poster written by Ruth E. Iskin and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860sÐ1900s is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising, and collecting. Though international in scope, the book focuses especially on France and England. Ruth E. Iskin argues that the avant-garde poster and the original art print played an important role in the development of a modernist language of art in the 1890s, as well as in the adaptation of art to an era of mass media. She moreover contends that this new form of visual communication fundamentally redefined relations between word and image: poster designers embedded words within the graphic, rather than using images to illustrate a text. Posters had to function as effective advertising in the hectic environment of the urban street. Even though initially commissioned as advertisements, they were soon coveted by collectors. Iskin introduces readers to the late nineteenth-century ÒiconophileÓÑa new type of collector/curator/archivist who discovered in poster collecting an ephemeral archaeology of modernity. Bridging the separation between the fields of art, design, advertising, and collecting, IskinÕs insightful study proposes that the poster played a constitutive role in the modern culture of spectacle. This stunningly illustrated book will appeal to art historians and students of visual culture, as well as social and cultural history, media, design, and advertising.

Book Motion Picture Classic

Download or read book Motion Picture Classic written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raphael   s Ostrich

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  • Author : Una Roman D’Elia
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2016-04-27
  • ISBN : 0271077476
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book Raphael s Ostrich written by Una Roman D’Elia and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the menageries and grotesque ornaments of sixteenth-century Italy. Following the complex history of shifting interpretations given to the ostrich in scientific, literary, religious, poetic, and satirical texts and images, D’Elia demonstrates the rich variety of ways in which people made sense of this living “monster,” which was depicted as the embodiment of heresy, stupidity, perseverance, justice, fortune, gluttony, and other virtues and vices. Because Raphael was revered as a god of art, artists imitated and competed with his ostrich, while religious and cultural critics complained about the potential for misinterpreting such obscure imagery. This book not only considers the history of the ostrich but also explores how Raphael’s painting forced viewers to question how meaning is attributed to the natural world, a debate of central importance in early modern Europe at a time when the disciplines of modern art history and natural history were developing. The strangeness of Raphael’s ostrich, situated at the crossroads of art, religion, myth, and natural history, both reveals lesser-known sides of Raphael’s painting and illuminates major cultural shifts in attitudes toward nature and images in the Renaissance. More than simply an examination of a single artist or a single subject, Raphael’s Ostrich offers an accessible, erudite, and charming alternative to Vasari’s pervasive model of the history of sixteenth-century Italian art.

Book The Works of William M  Thackeray

Download or read book The Works of William M Thackeray written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of William M. Thackeray: The Newcomes Childish days as now, hidden away, as it is, by succeeding lives, oh sous son pere on retrouve encore son pere, comme l'onde sous l'onde, dans une mer sans fond. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Book The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe  1450   1850

Download or read book The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe 1450 1850 written by Joseph P. McDermott and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different approaches to publishing, printing, and book culture. They discuss the extent of technology transfer and book distribution between the two regions and show how much book historians of East Asia and Europe can learn from one another by raising new questions, exploring remarkable similarities and differences in these regions’ production, distribution, and consumption of books. The chapters in turn show different ways of writing transnational comparative history. Whereas recent problems confronting research on European books can instruct researchers on East Asian book production, so can the privileged role of noncommercial publications in the East Asian textual record highlight for historians of the European book the singular contribution of commercial printing and market demands to the making of the European printed record. Likewise, although production growth was accompanied in both regions by a wider distribution of books, woodblock technology’s simplicity and mobility allowed for a shift in China of its production and distribution sites farther down the hierarchy of urban sites than was common in Europe. And, the different demands and consumption practices within these two regions’ expanding markets led to different genre preferences and uses as well as to the growth of distinctive female readerships. A substantial introduction pulls the work together and the volume ends with an essay that considers how these historical developments shape the present book worlds of Eurasia. “This splendid volume offers expert new insight into the ways of producing, financing, distributing, and reading printed books in early modern Europe and East Asia. This is comparative history at its best, which leaves us with a better understanding of each context and of the challenges common to book cultures across space and time.” —Ann Blair, author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age and professor of history, Harvard University “This engrossing account of the history of the book by leading specialists on the European and East Asian publishing worlds takes stock of what we know—and how much we still need to know—about the places that books had in the lives of our early modern forebears. Each chapter is masterful state-of-the-field coverage of its subject, and together they set a new standard for future studies of the book, East and West.” —Timothy Brook, author of The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties