Early American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases

Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674219813

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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by Bartlett Jere Whiting Pdf

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 : Archer Taylor,Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Proverbs, English
ISBN : OCLC:313680738

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A Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880 by Archer Taylor,Bartlett Jere Whiting Pdf

Author : Archer Taylor,Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674335864

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A Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880 by Archer Taylor,Bartlett Jere Whiting Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000002145138

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American Proverbs by Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

This study represents the first comprehensive treatise of American proverbs, each chapter including an interpretative essay, a special bibliography, and numerous texts in contexts. The fifteen chapters deal with the proverb in general, American proverbs in particular, proverbs of the immigrants, proverbs current in the various states, proverbs of the Native Americans, Afro-American proverbs, Benjamin Franklin's «proverbs», proverbs in prose literature, proverb poems, proverbs in popular songs, wellerisms, proverbs in comics and cartoons, proverbs in advertisements, and a special final chapter on the modern American proverb «Different strokes for different folks». A large bibliography, three indices, and forty illustrations are included.

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780195053999

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A Dictionary of American Proverbs by Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

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 : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Proverbs, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004671256

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English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf

Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000011802851

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Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings by Bartlett Jere Whiting Pdf

A collection of British and American proverbs that are currently in use.

Author : George B. Bryan,Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0820479470

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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases, Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by George B. Bryan,Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

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 : Forgotten Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0259469483

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English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases (Classic Reprint) by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf

Excerpt from English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases That popular phraseology which has subsisted among us time out of mind, and which may be said to constitute a kind of common speech, presents to our notice a theme peculiarly abounding in curiosity, interest and social illustration. The Rev. John Ward, Vicar of stratford-on-avon in the time of Charles II., observes in his diary Six things required to a proverb; 1. Short; 2. Plain; 3. Common; 4. Figurative; 5. Ancient; 6. True. If we allow this to be a fair criterion or standard, it follows that in the existing collections are a very great number of articles which have no real title to a place there; and such is, indeed, the actual fact. In Dr. Fuller's Gnomologia, 1732, there are 6496 sayings; but of these a considerable proportion would have to be eliminated to satisfy Mr. Ward's postulates; for there are, assuredly, many which do not fall under any of those heads. 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.

Author : Archer Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Proverbs
ISBN : IND:39000005905489

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The Proverb by Archer Taylor Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253040367

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"Right Makes Might" by Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

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 14th century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the 19th 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 today's well-known politicians, including 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. 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 : Bartlett Jere Whiting,Helen Wescott Whiting
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015016899976

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Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases by Bartlett Jere Whiting,Helen Wescott Whiting Pdf

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Proverbs, English
ISBN : ONB:+Z254007501

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English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf

Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674437357

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Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly Before 1500 by Bartlett Jere Whiting Pdf

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 : William Carew 1834-1913 Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362234508

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ENGLISH PROVERBS & PROVERBIAL by William Carew 1834-1913 Hazlitt Pdf