Download or read book The Complete French Master for Ladies and Gentlemen 1779 written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Figures of Speech written by Tim Cassedy and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Cassedy’s fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one’s identity. During this time of revolution (U.S., French, and Haitian) and globalization, language served as a way to categorize people within a world that appeared more diverse than ever. Linguistic differences, especially among English-speakers, seemed to validate the emerging national, racial, local, and regional identity categories that took shape in this new world order. Focusing on six eccentric characters of the time—from the woman known as “Princess Caraboo” to wordsmith Noah Webster—Cassedy shows how each put language at the center of their identities and lived out the possibilities of their era’s linguistic ideas. The result is a highly entertaining and equally informative look at how perceptions about who spoke what language—and how they spoke it—determined the shape of communities in the British American colonies and beyond. This engagingly written story is sure to appeal to historians of literature, culture, and communication; to linguists and book historians; and to general readers interested in how ideas about English developed in the early United States and throughout the English-speaking world.
Download or read book Catalogue written by J. J. GEYLER (AND CO.) and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The French Booktrade and the permission Simple of 1777 written by Robert L. Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1777 a series of royal decrees heralded the restructuring of the French booktrade. An important innovation was the creation of a public domain for certain kinds of books whose privil ge (or 'copyright') had expired. In order not to relinquish control over a vast category of books, the government decided to implement a new kind of printing and publishing permit - the 'permission simple'. As historian and bibliologist, the author examines the many issues involved in the implementation of the permit, explaining the circumstances that led to the creation of a public domain, the economic policies of the government with respect to the 'permission simple', and what exactly the procedures entailed. Other issues concerning the permit are also covered: edition runs; a number of illicit activities; the relationship of free trade, the physiocrats and Turgot to booktrade policies; the significance of Diderot's Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie. The study is largely based on hitherto unpublished sources and on books printed by virtue of the permit. Included in the volume is an edition of the 'permission simple' ledgers. This is the first time that the registers of an entire category of French books printed by virtue of a given authorisation have been published. They contain references to nearly two thousand editions - many today lost - of a wide variety of works. The entries are invaluable for the information they provide about the output of many important provincial printers and booksellers. Together the two registers provide a unique picture of French book production during the dozen years or so preceding the Revolution.
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica Et Orientalis A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts Collected with a View of the General Comparison of Languages and to the Study of Oriental Literature by William Marsden F R S c written by Bibliotheca Marsdeniana and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica Et Orientalis written by William Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books and Prints Containing Several Valuable Collections Purchased in France and Italy Amongst Them are the Following Rare Books Nuremberg Chronicle the Books are Now Selling Very Cheap By John Simco Which Will Begin Selling on July 1 1788 written by John Simco and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete French Master for Ladies and Gentlemen written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Media and the Mind written by Matthew Daniel Eddy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind. We often think of reason as a fixed entity, as a definitive body of facts that do not change over time. But during the Enlightenment, reason also was seen as a process, as a set of skills enacted on a daily basis. How, why, and where were these skills learned? Concentrating on Scottish students living during the long eighteenth century, this book argues that notebooks were paper machines and that notekeeping was a capability-building exercise that enabled young notekeepers to mobilize everyday handwritten and printed forms of material and visual media in a way that empowered them to judge and enact the enlightened principles they encountered in the classroom. Covering a rich selection of material ranging from simple scribbles to intricate watercolor diagrams, the book reinterprets John Locke’s comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa. Although one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment, scholars seldom consider why it was so successful for those who used it. Each chapter uses one core notekeeping skill to reveal the fascinating world of material culture that enabled students in the arts, sciences, and humanities to transform the tabula rasa metaphor into a dynamic cognitive model. Starting in the home, moving to schools, and ending with universities, the book reconstructs the relationship between media and the mind from the bottom up. It reveals that the cognitive skills required to make and use notebooks were not simply aids to reason; rather, they were part of reason itself.
Download or read book Antiquarian Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grammar Wars written by Linda Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: Although 17th- and 18th-century English language theorists claimed to be correcting errors in grammar and preserving the language from corruption, this new study demonstrates how grammar served as an important cultural battlefield where social issues were contested. Author Linda C. Mitchell situates early modern linguistic discussions, long thought to be of little interest, in their larger cultural and social setting to show the startling degree to which grammar affected, and was affected by, such factors as class and gender. In her examination of the controversies that surrounded the teaching and study of grammar in this period, Mitchell looks especially at changing definitions and standardization of "grammar", how and to whom it was taught, and how grammar marked the social position of marginal groups. Her comprehensive study of the contexts in which grammar was intended or thought to function is based on her analysis of the ancillary materials - prefaces, introductions, forewords, statements of intent, organization of materials, surrounding materials, and manifestos of pedagogy, philosophy, and social or political goals - of more than 300 grammar texts of the time. The book is intended as a landmark study of an important movement in the foundation of the modern world.
Download or read book Violence and Honor in Prerevolutionary P rigord written by Steven G. Reinhardt and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on rich archival sources, explores the relationship between honor and violence in the Périgord region in prerevolutionary France.
Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
