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Author : Archer Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Proverb written by Archer Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Proverbial Abraham Lincoln written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His effective employment of Biblical and folk proverbs, as well as proverbial phrases, makes him a masterful orator and writer."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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 : Frank LaRosa
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456796372
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)
Download or read book The Book of Proverbs in Plain English written by Frank LaRosa and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Proverbs is the key book in the Bible that teaches us wisdom; "the single, most important thing in life we could ever achieve". If we not only read the book, but put the advice to work in our lives, we can truly become wise. Frank realized that most people have a difficult time interpretting the Bible and never get the full understanding of what the passages are trying to get across to us. "If we don't fully understand what we are reading, how can we apply the advice to our lives?", was his question. With this in mind, he took three different Bible interpretations of the Book of Proverbs, studied each passage and rewrote them in "plain English", without changing the meanings of the passages, so all could get the full understanding. In this book you will find the simplest format, easiest wording, a daily calendar guide, word index and explanations for hard to understand passages. You will have such ease reading and actually comprehending what you are reading, that you will be amazed the simplicity to interpret. Although the Book of Proverbs was written nearly 3,000 years ago, you will find how relevant these words of wisdom are in our lives today. Prov 1:2--"The purpose of these Proverbs is to teach wisdom, give instruction and perceive words of understanding."
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Proverbial Harry S. Truman written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry S. Truman was not only a major political figure of the twentieth century, he was also a skilled communicator who was proud of his plain speaking. His letters, speeches, news conferences, memoirs, and other books are filled with elements of folk speech. Proverbs, proverbial expressions, and proverbial comparisons play an especially important rhetorical and communicative role, both in his personal relationships with family members and on the visible stage of regional, national, and international politics. This book begins with an introductory essay that discusses and analyzes the importance of proverbial language in Truman's published works. The bulk of the volume is a key-word index to the occurrence of proverbs in his writings, with the proverbs arranged according to the most significant word in the text. The quotation from Truman is accompanied by a citation to the source in his works consulted. Each entry also provides references to standard proverb dictionaries, which readers may consult to learn more about the history of a particular proverbial utterance. An appendix overviews the frequency of proverbs in Truman's writings. The interpretive essay together with the index clearly demonstrate that Harry S. Truman knew how to use proverbs effectively as colorful and accessible folk wisdom to communicate complex political ideas.
Author : Geroge B. Bryan
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Proverbial Bernard Shaw written by Geroge B. Bryan and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1994-01-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Shaw was a prolific author of book reviews, novels, plays, criticism, essays, and correspondence. Throughout his voluminous writings, proverbs occur repeatedly. This book is a comprehensive index to proverbs in Shaw's writings. An introductory chapter discusses the importance of proverbs in Shaw's works and analyzes his use of them. The bulk of the volume is a key-word index to the proverbs, along with a list of editions of Shaw's writings that were consulted. Proverbs in the key-word index are arranged alphabetically according to the most significant word in the text. Each entry cites quotations from Shaw's works in which the proverb appears. Entries also identify the edition of Shaw's works consulted, and provide the page number on which the proverb appears. The entries then cite major proverb and quotation dictionaries which can be consulted for additional information. Appendices overview the frequency with which Shaw used various proverbial expressions and summarize their distribution in his writings.
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304037X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book "Right Makes Might" written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerful and timely addition to the literature of rhetoric and folklore.” —Choice In 1860, Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb Right makes might—opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right—in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the fourteenth century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the nineteenth century. In this collection, famed scholar of proverbs Wolfgang Mieder explores the multifaceted use and function of proverbs through the history of the United States, from their early beginnings up through their use by such modern-day politicians as Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Building on previous publications and unpublished research, Mieder explores sociopolitical aspects of the American worldview as expressed through the use of proverbs in politics, women’s rights, and the civil rights movement—and by looking at the use of proverbial phrases, Mieder demonstrates how one traditional phrase can take on numerous expressive roles over time, and how they continue to play a key role in our contemporary moment.
Author : George B. Bryan
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Proverbial Eugene O'Neill written by George B. Bryan and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1995-11-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proverbial language figures prominently in the works of Eugene O'Neill (1883-1953), the recipient of four Pulitzer prizes and a Nobel laureateship for literature. This book is a directory to the proverbs, proverbial expressions, and proverbial comparisons in O'Neill's 50 dramas and numerous letters, articles, diaries, and notebooks. Very little attention has been given to any aspect of O'Neill's language, to say nothing of the virtual disregard of him as a wielder of proverbial diction. This collection of 2,059 examples of O'Neill's proverbial usage is a first step towards remedying that situation and provides a foundation for future scholarship. The introduction shows how O'Neill used proverbs as a structural element of his dramas and places his proverbial usage in the context of international proverb scholarship, offers examples and generalizations about his manipulation of proverbs, and suggests fruitful areas of further investigation. The heart of the book is a key-word index to the proverbial texts that identifies the locations of the proverbial examples in the canon of O'Neill's works and facilitates comparisons of similar locutions. Each proverbial construction is dated so that the reader can immediately see the chronological range of the texts. For those interested in the history of particular proverbs, citations of standard proverb dictionaries are appended to most of the texts. Two appendices show the frequency with which proverbs appear and their distribution among the various dramas.
Author : John Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192800022
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs written by John Simpson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" to "Youth must be served."
Author : Preston Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781318029280
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases with a Copious Index of Principal Words written by Preston Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. W. Dent
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520320972
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Proverbial Language written by R. W. Dent and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author : Archer Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Index to "The Proverb" written by Archer Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674437357
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly Before 1500 written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive examination of the surviving texts, mainly printed ones but some still in manuscript. Certain books written later than 1500, usually by authors who were born twenty years or so before the turn of the century, are included, and John Heywood, the first great assembler of English proverbs, is represented by the sayings he compiled. , "No matter how popular a saying may appear," Mr. Whiting points out in his Preface, "it comes to us at one remove or more from popular usage. The medieval proverbs which survive do so only because they were written down by educated men, none of them collectors from the field. In most cases the sayings were incorporated in literary works by authors who did not hesitate to make changes suggested by context, application, and meter. We sometimes forget that Heywood's Dialogue and Epigrams are poems, although Heywood's standards of prosody are such as to let him use proverbs without too drastic changes for rhyme and rhythm's sake. What we have in most quotations is the proverb, not as an author may have heard or read it, but in the form which suited his immediate convenience or whim." The sayings are alphabetized by key words and the quotations are in chronological order. Cross-references link sayings of similar import, and the index is a guide to important words other than those by which the alphabetical order is established. References are given to the standard collections of English proverbs, so that the user can trace the later history of many of the sayings. Filling a long-felt gap in the field, this work will be indispensable to students of Old and Middle English literature and of great value to everyone interested in the rich resources of proverb lore.
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299143640
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The Wisdom of Many written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 20 studies of proverbs first published in 1981 by Garland. Among the general topics are structure, oral transmission, and practical reasoning. Proverbs examined in detail include African, Yiddish, Shakespeare's, Chinese, Irish, and those used in advertising. Includes an addenda to the bibliography. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Henry George Bohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A Hand-book of Proverbs written by Henry George Bohn and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433103780
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book "Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words" written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, culture, folklore, history, literature, and the mass media. The book draws attention to the fact that proverbs as metaphorical signs continue to play an important role in oral and written communication. Proverbs as so-called monumenta humana are omnipresent in all facets of life, and while they are neither sacrosanct nor saccharine, they usually offer much common sense or wisdom based on recurrent experiences and observations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proverbs in World Literature written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary critics and folklorists have long been interested in the use and function of proverbial language in literature. Proverbs in World Literature enables scholars and students to establish what has been published on proverbs, proverbial expressions, proverbial comparisons, proverbial exaggerations, and wellerisms in the works of many authors throughout the world. This international bibliography contains 2,654 entries, of which the first 284 comprise a section of General Studies. Proverb dictionaries based on texts collected from literary works, books and articles about numerous authors, studies of the interrelationship of proverbs and folk literature (fairy tales, legends, tall tales, folk songs, etc.) and theoretical writings on the integration and function of proverbs in literature in general are listed here. The second part of the bibliography is arranged alphabetically according to the last name of the literary author whose proverbial usage has been investigated. Anonymous works are also listed alphabetically. A name index of the scholars cited appears at the end. Extensive materials from many languages and cultures are collected and organized. The bibliography thus includes not only proverb studies regarding the major authors of world literature, but also those investigations that deal with regional writers.
