The World In A Phrase
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Author | : James Geary |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 160819762X |
Starting with the ancient Chinese and ending with contemporary Europeans and Americans, The World in a Phrase tells the story of the aphorism through spirited and amusing biographies of some of its greatest practitioners, including Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker; great French aphorists like Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, and Chamfort; philosophers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein; as well as prophets and sages like the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Jesus. In our modern age, The World in a Phrase explores how aphorisms still retain the power to instigate and inspire, enlighten and enrage, entertain and edify. James Geary is the author of The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses. He lives in London with his wife and three children. "James Geary's celebration of the smallest-and sometimes wisest-of literary forms. Geary defines the characteristics of aphorisms and discusses their history and their role in his life, and shares the work of renowned aphorists from Buddha to Dr. Seuss."-Associated Press
Author | : Eric Dondero R. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2002-02-01 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780971853317 |
Author | : Nicola Edwards |
Publisher | : Caterpillar Books |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781838913274 |
Have you ever wondered why we talkabout 'buttering someone up' or wherethe phrase 'it's raining cats and dogs'actually comes from? What does it meanto 'comb the giraffe' in France or to 'weara cat on your head' in Japan?Also available This beautifully illustrated collection of curious phrases from around the world is a voyage of cultural discovery.
Author | : Patrick Alain |
Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2011-11-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1601636261 |
Easily find the right words to respond like a leader in any situation, communicate effectively, and make your way to success. The Leader Phrase Book contains more than 3,000 dynamic phrases that will enable you to prevail in virtually all of life’s important situations. You will be in command of your words and always stay ahead of the game. With this passport to success, you will begin a new journey on which you are among the charismatic, the untouchable . . . the elite. This easy-to-use reference book will give you a new image you can take pride in helping you to quickly reach your full leadership potential. You will have all the weapons to effectively succeed whenever vibrant, forceful language is required. It works like magic! The Leader Phrase Book will teach you how to: • Speak like a leader • Master all conversations • Attain a charismatic presence • Gain the respect of others • Achieve a lightning-fast rhetoric • Find the right phrases instantly • Argue effectively • Be the envy of all you meet The Leader Phrase Book is the culmination of ten years of Patrick’s personal research on how leaders communicate. It is the summation of his efforts to share one of the most invaluable skills in life: “how to put yourself in command.” Praise for The Leader Phrase Book “This refreshing and practical tool will help to enlarge, promote, and articulate the world of communication.” —Cristina Roggero, Pepperdine University professor of literature “An indispensable tool to help you become quickly fluent in phrases that put you ahead in the marketplace.” —Tony Azar, Homeland Security Chief Engineer “A must read for anyone who wants to move ahead in business.” —Jami Levesque, technical director of 300 and Transformers 3
Author | : Don Cupitt |
Publisher | : SCM Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2014-07-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0334048117 |
Presents a Devil's Dictionary of the author's own ideas, with cross-links from entry to entry guiding the reader around his system. This title points out that the non-arrival of the Kingdom left the early Christians looking up vigilantly towards a better world that was yet to come.
Author | : John Bartlett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1058 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Education |
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Since we talk in phrases as well as in words every home needs a phrase book as well as a dictionary. This book has been prepared to meet that need, and contains a dictionary of six thousand choice phrases arranged synonymously for general use; many polite expressions, phrases of charm and courtesy, for use in letter writing; one hundred sample social letters, including instruction concerning the method of their preparation by the use of the dictionary of phrases; a guide to choice phrases for social letter writing; and finally, a handy index, very helpful, even though the phrases have been arranged in dictionary form. I have made an effort to emphasize phrases of commendation, optimism, and courtesy. Also many for use in letter writing--especially phrases suitable for letters of condolence. There is perhaps no more difficult letter to write than one of condolence, hence a considerable number under this designation in order to assist in this necessary and yet most blessed task.
Author | : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 1166 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Allusions |
ISBN | : 9781840223101 |
This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.
Author | : Edwin Hamlin Carr |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Putnam's Phrase Book is about the art of letter writing and how to charm friends and family with your devilish and ornate epistolary skill. Contents: "A Dictionary of Six Thousand Expressions and General Phrases for Use in Conversation, Social Letter Writing, and Public Speaking; A Sample Letter Showing how this Book may be Used in Preparation of Social Letters; A Guide to Phrases for Use in Preparing One's Letters if the Sample Letters are not Satisfactory; One Hundred Social Letters; Of Condolence; Of Congratulation; Of Friendly Appreciation With Gifts"
Author | : Pieter De Haan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9401207763 |
This book reports on the results of a project whose aim was to give a detailed description of a number of syntactic properties of postmodifying clauses in the English NP, and study the way in which some of these properties are related to each other in a variety of text tyoes. The study is based on an examination of the Nijmegen Corpus, which consists of slightly over 130,000 words of running text. The structure of the NP is described basically in terms of four constituents: DeterminerPremodifierHeadPostmodifier No fewer than 2,430 occurrences of postmodifying clauses in NPs were analysed. A numerical coding scheme was designed, in which 26 different variable features were encoded, describing the properties the postmodifying clauses. These were processed and statistically analysed. The book discusses the methodology adopted and the results of the statistical analyses. Among the properties described are the function of NPs with postmodifying clauses, the structure of these NPs, the realisation and reference of the heads of these NPs, the specific types of postmodifying clause, the actual link words used, the clause patterns occurring in the postmodifying clauses, and the verb phrases in the postmodifying clauses.