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John Hardie of Thornhill and his family

John Hardie of Thornhill and his family

Lillian Galt Martin

22.7.1 Mervin Hardie Moore, first child of Mervin Booth Moore and Sarah Hardie Moore, was born on 7 March 1939 in El Paso, Texas. He graduated with honors from Austin High School in H Paso, and in 1961 received a B.A. degree and in ...
Keir Hardie:

Keir Hardie:

Bob Holman

Keir Hardie was a founder and the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party.
The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a ...

The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a ...

Philip Hardie

A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.
Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

Philip Hardie

A comprehensive treatment of the ways in which Ovid exploits illusion in his poetry.
Georgics

Georgics

Philip Hardie

Conington's commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in its engagement with the detail of Virgil's Latin, as well as its literary sensitivity; it still has much to offer the modern reader.This volume includes Virgil's text of the ...
Lucretian Receptions: History, the Sublime, Knowledge

Lucretian Receptions: History, the Sublime, Knowledge

Philip Hardie

Lucretius' 'De rerum natura', one of the greatest Latin poems, worked a powerful fascination on Virgil and Horace, and continued to be an important model for later poets in antiquity and after, including Milton.
Lucretian Receptions: History, the Sublime, Knowledge

Lucretian Receptions: History, the Sublime, Knowledge

Philip Hardie

Lucretius' 'De rerum natura', one of the greatest Latin poems, worked a powerful fascination on Virgil and Horace, and continued to be an important model for later poets in antiquity and after, including Milton.
The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

Philip Hardie

And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton.
Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature

Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature

Philip Hardie

Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and dramatic texts, and authors such as Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and ...
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

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... to Modern Spanish Culture edited byDavidT. Gies The Cambridge Companion to Modern ItalianCulture edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski and RebeccaJ. West THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO OVID EDITED BY PHILIP HARDIE University.
Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...

Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...

Philip A. Fisher

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks, Conservative Investors Sleep Well, and Developing an Investment Philosophy Philip A. Fisher. Copyright © 1996, 2003 by Philip A. Fisher. All rights reserved.
A Political Companion to Philip Roth

A Political Companion to Philip Roth

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Aimee Pozorski, “On Philip Roth: Ethics and Elegy after the Holocaust,” Philip Roth, ed. Pozorski (Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2013), 6. 2. “Politics,” in Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 3. Ibid. 4. Philip Roth, I Married a ...
The Cody family in America, 1698: descendants of Philip and ...

The Cody family in America, 1698: descendants of Philip and ...

Lydia Sarah Cody

descendants of Philip and Martha, Massachusetts, biographical and genealogical Lydia Sarah Cody, International Cody Association. 293 Sylvester, b. ... 123 NANCY CODY 5 (John 4, Philip 3, Joseph 3, Philip 1), b. Oct. 6, 1786 at Dudley, ...
Critical Mass

Critical Mass

Philip Ball

Philip Ball ... l have been encouraged as ever by the good judgement of my agent Peter Robinson and the support of my wife Julia. Philip Ball London, October 2003 1.1 1.2 2.1 3.1 5.1 Picture credits Thomas Hobbes by Acknowledgements.
The Best Spiritual Writing 2012

The Best Spiritual Writing 2012

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Philip Zaleski. Tfie 'Best Spiritual 'Writing 2012 4%~ llildly PHILIP ZALESKI 'Tfie ' Best Spirituaf Wrifing 2012 .%~ Ediredfiy PHILIP ZALESKI Introduction. Ixtradurtian PHILIP WDJIC ELY rlrliifl noon Front Cover.
Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking ...

Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking ...

Dan Malleck

On normalization, I draw on the work of Philip Corrigan, notably Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer, The GreatArch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution (London: Blackwell, 1985), but also Philip Corrigan, “Viewpoint: ...
Discover animal life

Discover animal life

Lynne Hardie Baptista

Explores the world of animals including insects, fish, reptiles and amphibians, birds, mammals, and endangered species.
Walking Dead Omnibus

Walking Dead Omnibus

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Bruce Cooper is just one man—a single cog in the Woodbury machine—but he secretly meant the world to Philip. Other than Gabe, Bruce was the closest thing to a friend Philip had in this world. Philip confided in Bruce, let him see the ...
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

Philip K. Dick

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the ...
Materijali za istorijata na Makedonija

Materijali za istorijata na Makedonija

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Ward, Philip, The Small Publisher: A Manual and Case Histories (sec Ward, Audrey Joan) Ward, Philip, Television Plays, The Oleander Press, 1976. 8ViXl I; I6pp; pa/$3.25 (ISBN 0-902675-45-1); Important new British TV drama. Ward, Philip ...
Literary life of Charles Philip Brown [by himself].

Literary life of Charles Philip Brown [by himself].

Charles Philip Brown

Charles Philip Brown. Kanadi manuscripts stored up in the India House library, of which I framed a Catalogue, at the request of Professor Wilson. The Honourable Court of Directors in March 1837 bestowed upon me their thanks.
Crossroads in Literature and Culture

Crossroads in Literature and Culture

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Dick, Philip Kindred. 1995b. ''The short happy life or a science fiction writer.'' In: The shifting realities of Philip K. Dick. Selected literary and philosophical writings, ed. Lawrence Sutin, 44-53, London: Vintage Books. Dick, Philip Kindred. 1995c.
Narrative of the literary life of Charles Philip Brown, etc

Narrative of the literary life of Charles Philip Brown, etc

Charles Philip BROWN

Charles Philip BROWN. that the art will prosper. I hope that it's effects ... Let them only begin with £ endeavours and full determination ; and God will open e way for their progress and final success. As I £ : had to make my own tools : to write my ...
The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the ...

The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the ...

James Edward Burton

Lawrence Sutin (Novato, CA: Underwood-Miller). Dick, Philip K. (1991b [1963]), The Game-Players of Titan (London: Grafton). Dick, Philip K. (1991c [1977]), A Scanner Darkly (New York: Vintage). Dick, Philip K. (1991d [1981]), VALIS (New  ...
Studies in Numismatic Method: Presented to Philip Grierson

Studies in Numismatic Method: Presented to Philip Grierson

Philip Grierson

This volume of essays, offered by a circle of friends, colleagues and pupils working in Britain, Europe and North America, is intended to pay tribute to Philip Grierson's unique contribution to the study of numismatic method.
Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney. In 1583 Sidney was knighted, and soon afterwards in the same year he married Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. Sonnets written by him according to old fashion, and addressed to a lady in accordance with a ...
Philip Guston's Poor Richard

Philip Guston's Poor Richard

Debra Bricker Balken

In 1971, as the race for the presidency heated up, the artist Philip Guston (1913-1980) created a series of caricatures of Richard Nixon titled Philip Guston's Poor Richard.
The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney

The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney

Philip Sidney

A fascinating glimpse of Elizabethan life and politics is provided by the first full edition of Sir Philip Sidney's correspondence.

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