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A Cursory History Of Swearing $15.51 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.Excerpt from book:Section 3CHAPTER II. ” Kow don’t let us give ourselves a parcel of airs and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swear them,— imagine that we have had the wit to invent them too.”—textit{Tristram Shandy. Whex Hesiod fabled the god of oaths to be the son of Discord, the post could hardly have foreseen the grhn reality that would attach to his satiric allegory. It is now a very small thing—a matter of no consequence at all—that serious and well-meaning men once attested their assertions by making passing reference to Minerva or Helios. But yet is it none the less necessary to realise that they made such reference for the express purpose of being believed, and that when not pronouncing one or other of these forms of speech, they ran a strong chance of being absolutely disbelieved. ^ Hesiod has dimly chronicled the genealogy of oaths. But it was for other generations to chronicle their posterity, to hear*-them derided in the amphitheatre, and to see the divinities that inspired themshattered and broken down. But there is a singular survival and continuity of the ancient practice: men still swear by Jove. A like process of declension seems to have gone on in all countries and in the same fashion. To begin with, the origin of all swearing was the same—the one intense dread of falsehood against which as yet no laws were sufficient to guard. Fancy the mortal distress of barbarian man when he first wakes to the belief that his enemies can, by smooth speech, wrest from his hands what his prowess or his labour has acquired. No art that he is a vare of can pervert the action of tongues set falsely going. Seeing how illimitable is the crop of words, he may even imagine a plague of lies that will fall thick about |
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A Cursory History Of Swearing $23.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.Excerpt from book:Section 3CHAPTER II. ” Kow don’t let us give ourselves a parcel of airs and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swear them,— imagine that we have had the wit to invent them too.”—textit{Tristram Shandy. Whex Hesiod fabled the god of oaths to be the son of Discord, the post could hardly have foreseen the grhn reality that would attach to his satiric allegory. It is now a very small thing—a matter of no consequence at all—that serious and well-meaning men once attested their assertions by making passing reference to Minerva or Helios. But yet is it none the less necessary to realise that they made such reference for the express purpose of being believed, and that when not pronouncing one or other of these forms of speech, they ran a strong chance of being absolutely disbelieved. ^ Hesiod has dimly chronicled the genealogy of oaths. But it was for other generations to chronicle their posterity, to hear*-them derided in the amphitheatre, and to see the divinities that inspired themshattered and broken down. But there is a singular survival and continuity of the ancient practice: men still swear by Jove. A like process of declension seems to have gone on in all countries and in the same fashion. To begin with, the origin of all swearing was the same—the one intense dread of falsehood against which as yet no laws were sufficient to guard. Fancy the mortal distress of barbarian man when he first wakes to the belief that his enemies can, by smooth speech, wrest from his hands what his prowess or his labour has acquired. No art that he is a vare of can pervert the action of tongues set falsely going. Seeing how illimitable is the crop of words, he may even imagine a plague of lies that will fall thick about |
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A Cursory History Of Swearing $14.14 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.Excerpt from book:Section 3CHAPTER II. ” Kow don’t let us give ourselves a parcel of airs and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swear them,— imagine that we have had the wit to invent them too.”—textit{Tristram Shandy. Whex Hesiod fabled the god of oaths to be the son of Discord, the post could hardly have foreseen the grhn reality that would attach to his satiric allegory. It is now a very small thing—a matter of no consequence at all—that serious and well-meaning men once attested their assertions by making passing reference to Minerva or Helios. But yet is it none the less necessary to realise that they made such reference for the express purpose of being believed, and that when not pronouncing one or other of these forms of speech, they ran a strong chance of being absolutely disbelieved. ^ Hesiod has dimly chronicled the genealogy of oaths. But it was for other generations to chronicle their posterity, to hear*-them derided in the amphitheatre, and to see the divinities that inspired themshattered and broken down. But there is a singular survival and continuity of the ancient practice: men still swear by Jove. A like process of declension seems to have gone on in all countries and in the same fashion. To begin with, the origin of all swearing was the same—the one intense dread of falsehood against which as yet no laws were sufficient to guard. Fancy the mortal distress of barbarian man when he first wakes to the belief that his enemies can, by smooth speech, wrest from his hands what his prowess or his labour has acquired. No art that he is a vare of can pervert the action of tongues set falsely going. Seeing how illimitable is the crop of words, he may even imagine a plague of lies that will fall thick about |
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A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans $17.51 The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher’s book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Original Publisher: A. Fullarton Publication date: 1851Subjects: Clans; Scotland; Highlands (Scotland); Clans and clan system; Highlands of Scotland; Art / Fashion; History / Europe / General; History / Europe / Great Britain; Medical / Gastroenterology; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Travel / Europe / Great Britain |
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A Sepulchral Relief from Tarentum $14.98 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Sepulchral monuments; Bas-relief; Art / Sculpture; History / General; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Archaeology; Social Science / Death |
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Daughters Of The American Revolution Magazine (Volume 15) $35.44 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 15; Original Publisher: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.; Publication date: 1899; Subjects: Genealogy; United States; Art / Design / General; Law / Constitutional; Political Science / Constitutions; Reference / Genealogy; Technology |
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Daughters Of The American Revolution Magazine (Volume 4) $34.89 The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher’s book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Volume: 4 Original Publisher: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Publication date: 1894Subjects: Genealogy; United States; Art / Design / General; History / United States / State |
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Daughters Of The American Revolution Magazine (Volume 6) $60.7 The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher’s book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Volume: 6 Original Publisher: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Publication date: 1895Subjects: Genealogy; United States; Art / Design / General; Law / Constitutional; Political Science / Constitutions; Reference / Genealogy; Technology |
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Daughters Of The American Revolution Magazine (Volume 7) $44.82 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 7; Original Publisher: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.; Publication date: 1895; Subjects: Genealogy; United States; Art / Design / General; Law / Constitutional; Political Science / Constitutions; Reference / Genealogy; Technology |
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Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine (Volume 25) $46.96 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 25; Original Publisher: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.; Publication date: 1904; Subjects: Genealogy; United States; Art / Design / General; Law / Constitutional; Political Science / Constitutions; Reference / Genealogy; Technology |
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Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine (Volume 27) $77.23 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 27; Original Publisher: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.; Publication date: 1905; Subjects: Genealogy; United States; Art / Design / General; Law / Constitutional; Political Science / Constitutions; Reference / Genealogy; Technology |
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Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine (Volume 30) $68.59 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 30; Original Publisher: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.; Publication date: 1906; Subjects: Genealogy; United States; Art / Design / General; Law / Constitutional; Political Science / Constitutions; Reference / Genealogy; Technology |
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Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine (Volume  $70.08 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 8; Original Publisher: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.; Publication date: 1896; Subjects: Genealogy; United States; Art / Design / General; Law / Constitutional; Political Science / Constitutions; Reference / Genealogy; Technology |
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Escapees: Giacomo Casanova $9.43 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Giacomo Casanova, Ken Allen. Excerpt: Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (April 2, 1725 June 4, 1798) was a Venetian adventurer and author . His main book Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life ), part autobiography and part memoir , is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century.He was so famous as a womanizer that his name remains synonymous with the art of seduction. He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals , along with luminaries such as Voltaire , Goethe and Mozart . He spent his last years in Bohemia as a librarian in Count Waldstein’s household, where he also wrote the story of his life.Biography Youth Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725 to actress Zanetta Farussi, wife of actor and dancer Gaetano Giuseppe Casanova. Giacomo was the first of six children, being followed by Francesco Giuseppe (17271803), Giovanni Battista (17301795), Faustina Maddalena (17311736), Maria Maddalena Antonia Stella (17321800), and Gaetano Alvise (17341783). Because of his mother’s profession, it is suspected that some or all of these were fathered by men other than her husband. Casanova himself suspected his biological father to have been Michele Grimani, a member of the patrician family that owned the San Samuele theatre where Zanetta and Gaetano had worked. Lending support to this, Grimanis brother, Abbé Alvise Grimani, became Casanovas guardian. In his memoirs, however, Casanova provides an elaborate paternal genealogy to explain his birth, beginning in Spain in 1428. The Republic of Venice during Casanovas time was past its peak as a naval and commercial power. Instead Venice thrived as the pleasure capital of Europe, ruled by political and religious conservatives who |
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Literature By Medium $49.28 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and in order to instill moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters and narrative point of view. The earliest forms of storytelling were thought to have been primarily oral combined with gestures and expressions. In addition to being part of religious ritual, Rudimentary drawings scratched onto the walls of caves may be forms of early storytelling for many of the ancient cultures. The Australian Aborginal people painted symbols from stories on cave walls as a means of helping the storyteller remember the story. The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art and dance. Ephemeral media such as sand, leaves and the carved trunks of living trees have also been used to record stories in pictures or with writing. With the advent of writing, the use of actual digit symbols to represent language, and the use of stable, portable media stories were recorded, transcribed and shared over wide regions of the world. Stories have been carved, scratched, painted, printed or inked onto wood or bamboo, ivory and other bones, pottery, clay tablets, stone, palm-leaf books, skins (parchment), bark cloth, paper, silk, canvas and other textiles, recorded on film and stored electronically in digital form. Complex forms of tattooing may also represent stories, with information about genealogy, affiliation and social status. Traditionally, oral stories were committed to memory and then passed from generation to generation. However, in the most recent past, written and televis… More: |
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Museums in Detroit, Michigan: Pewabic Pottery, Detroit Institute of Arts, Fort Wayne, Detroit Historical Museum $11.74 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pewabic Pottery, Detroit Institute of Arts, Fort Wayne, Detroit Historical Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Piquette Plant, First Congregational Church (Detroit, Michigan), Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit Science Center, Engine House No. 11 (Detroit, Michigan), Ukrainian American Archives and Museum of Detroit, Underground Railroad Living Museum, Motown Historical Museum. Excerpt: The Museum of African American History in Detroit. The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is located in the Cultural Center of the U.S. city of Detroit , Michigan . Founded in 1965, it holds the world’s largest permanent exhibit on African American culture. In 1997, it moved into a 120,000 square foot (11,000 m²) facility on Warren Avenue. The Wright Museum has dual missions, serving as both a museum of artifacts and a place of cultural retention and growth. The Museum owns more than 30,000 artifacts and archival materials. Some of the major collections it is home to include the Blanche Coggin Underground Railroad Collection, the Harriet Tubman Museum Collection, a Coleman A. Young Collection and a collection of documents about the labor movement in Detroit called the Sheffield Collection. Also in the museum is an interactive exhibit called And Still We Rise: Our Journey through African American History and Culture , seven exhibition areas devoted to African Americans and their lives, the Louise Lovett Wright Research Library, and the General Motors Theater, which is a 317 seat facility for film, live performances, lectures, and presentations. A terrazzo tile creation titled Genealogy is in the Ford Freedom Rotunda Floor and the museum is topped by a 100 feet by 55 feet glass dome. The museum store |
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Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color: Four Hundred Years of an American Family’s History $9.99 Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color: Four Hundred Years of An American Families History, is Non Fiction, African American History, 292 pages, with Table of Contents, Appendix, Bibliography, Endnotes, and Index. The book chronicles the lives of a group labled, “fpc”, or Free Persons of Color, by the Virginia Free Negro Registry, in Colonial Virginia. They were Virginia’s own Creole Population.MEDIA COVERAGE AND REVIEWS Henry Weincek, author of The Hairstons, and, An Imperfect God, gives this book an excellent review. Patrick Walters of the, Reading Eagle Times (Reading PA), also gave it an excellent review, as did Bryan Robinson of the Downingtown Ledger, and Art Thomas I reviewer, and moderator for the Afrigeneas Website. Newspapers, such as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fredericksburg Freelance Star, Richmond Times Dispatch, Oakland Tribune, Henrico Citizen, and Monterey Herald, have written articles about Ms. Wills and her project. She has made Television appearances, coordinated events at George Washington Birthplace Virginia, and Colonial Yorktown, and held numerous book signings. Some of the libraries that hold, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color; Pennsylvania State Library, California State Library, Cornell University Library, Virginia State Library, University of Virginia, Central Rapphannock Library, Lancaster County Historical Society, Octorara High School Library PA, and Virginia Historical Society. AUTHOR BIO Ms. Wills, is a published author, lecturer, and genealogy researcher. She was born in Coatesville Pennsylvania, and currently resides in Northern California. She is the mother of four children, and the grandmother of four. Her writing career began with the gathering of documentation for her maternal line. The documents and records contain information, which are of historical interest. This includes information on George Washington, and Indentured Servitude. AUTHORS COMMENTS Although |
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Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color: Four Hundred Years of an American Family’s History $20 Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color: Four Hundred Years of An American Families History, is Non Fiction, African American History, 292 pages, with Table of Contents, Appendix, Bibliography, Endnotes, and Index. The book chronicles the lives of a group labled, “fpc”, or Free Persons of Color, by the Virginia Free Negro Registry, in Colonial Virginia. They were Virginia’s own Creole Population.MEDIA COVERAGE AND REVIEWS Henry Weincek, author of The Hairstons, and, An Imperfect God, gives this book an excellent review. Patrick Walters of the, Reading Eagle Times (Reading PA), also gave it an excellent review, as did Bryan Robinson of the Downingtown Ledger, and Art Thomas I reviewer, and moderator for the Afrigeneas Website. Newspapers, such as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fredericksburg Freelance Star, Richmond Times Dispatch, Oakland Tribune, Henrico Citizen, and Monterey Herald, have written articles about Ms. Wills and her project. She has made Television appearances, coordinated events at George Washington Birthplace Virginia, and Colonial Yorktown, and held numerous book signings. Some of the libraries that hold, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color; Pennsylvania State Library, California State Library, Cornell University Library, Virginia State Library, University of Virginia, Central Rapphannock Library, Lancaster County Historical Society, Octorara High School Library PA, and Virginia Historical Society. AUTHOR BIO Ms. Wills, is a published author, lecturer, and genealogy researcher. She was born in Coatesville Pennsylvania, and currently resides in Northern California. She is the mother of four children, and the grandmother of four. Her writing career began with the gathering of documentation for her maternal line. The documents and records contain information, which are of historical interest. This includes information on George Washington, and Indentured Servitude. AUTHORS COMMENTS Although |
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People From Burgess Hill: Guy Stair Sainty, Vallance Jupp, Allan Gunn, Simon Nye, Neil Brand, Richard Midgley, Elizabeth Bartlett $9.25 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Guy Stair Sainty, Vallance Jupp, Allan Gunn, Simon Nye, Neil Brand, Richard Midgley, Elizabeth Bartlett, Caroline Atkins. Excerpt: Guy Stair Sainty is an art dealer and author on royal genealogy and heraldry. Guy Sainty was born on 7 December 1950, the eldest son of the late Christopher Lawrence Sainty of Clayton Priory, Burgess Hill, Sussex by his second wife Virginia Cade, née Stair, and half-brother of Sir John Sainty. His grandfather, Arthur Stair, was an architect who later founded Stair |
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Society for Sanity in Art $43.11 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Society of Genealogists (SoG) is a UK-based educational charity, founded in 1911 to “promote, encourage and foster the study, science and knowledge of genealogy”. Membership is open to any adult who agrees to abide by the Society’s rules and who pays the annual subscription. At the end of 2009, it had 11,447 members.Until it purchased 37 Harrington Gardens, South Kensington, in 1954, the Society was based in Malet Place, Bloomsbury, London. The constant growth of the library and increasingly cramped building forced the Society to also sell this headquarters and move both to 14 Charterhouse Buildings (constructed in 1968 for storing rolls of silk), in Clerkenwell, London, in July 1984. |
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The Celtic Magazine (Volume 10 (Nov. 1884-Oct. 1885)) $31.82 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 10 (Nov. 1884-Oct. 1885); Original Publisher: A. and W. Mackenzie; Publication date: 1885; Subjects: Clans; Scotland; Art / Fashion; History / Europe / General; History / Europe / Great Britain; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Travel / Europe / Great Britain; |
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The Celtic Magazine (Volume 10) $31.82 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 10; Original Publisher: A. and W. Mackenzie; Publication date: 1885; Subjects: Clans; Scotland; Art / Fashion; Fiction / Romance / Historical; History / Europe / General; History / Europe / Great Britain; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Travel / Europe / Great Britain; |
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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French; First Bishop of Lahore $38.41 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: John Murray; Publication date: 1895; Subjects: Art / Fashion; History / Europe / Great Britain; Reference / Genealogy; Religion / Christianity / Anglican; Religion / Christianity / Denominations; Social Science / Anthropology / General; |