A reference guide containing information about thousands of phrases and expressions not normally covered by conventional dictionaries. New etymological material about word and phrase histories is included, and there are entries on people and events from mythology, the bible, and literature.
"The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial, and embracing archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction. This valuable dictionary, which revises and updates the ...
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.
This reference work contains more than 20,000 definitions of phrases and words most commonly and uncommonly used in literature and everyday speech. Entries explain the meaning and origin of phrases and their significance in religion, philosophy, literature, geography, mathematics, and the sciences.
PREFACE. No science is more generally interesting than that which explains the common phenomena of life. V e see that salt and snow are both white, a rose red, leaves green, and the violet a deep purple but how few persons ever ask the reason why We know that a flute produces a musical sound, and a cracked bell a discordant one-that fire is hot, ...
Originally published in 1892, "the object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid, but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and references, whether by poets or prose writers; - to furnish those who consult it with the plot of popular dramas, the story of epic poems, and the outline of well-known tales. ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Third Step towards Civilisation. EDUCATION AND LEGAL RIGHTS; When the petty states were somewhat settled, what arrangement did they make for greater strength ? ...
Originally published in 1892, "the object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid, but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and references, whether by poets or prose writers; - to furnish those who consult it with the plot of popular dramas, the story of epic poems, and the outline of well-known tales. ...
Originally published in 1892, "the object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid, but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and references, whether by poets or prose writers; - to furnish those who consult it with the plot of popular dramas, the story of epic poems, and the outline of well-known tales. ...
Originally published in 1892, "the object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid, but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and references, whether by poets or prose writers; - to furnish those who consult it with the plot of popular dramas, the story of epic poems, and the outline of well-known tales. ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HISTORY OF GERMANY. DIVISION I.?PART I. THE ROMANO-GERMAN PERIOD, FROM THE CIMBRIAN WAR, B.c. 113, TO THE CONQUEST OF FRANCE BY CLOVIS, A.d. 486. THE OVERTHROW OF THE ...
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