2 letters from Augustus Septimus Mayhew to B. W. Horner
Author : Augustus Mayhew
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Release : 1873
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Author : Augustus Mayhew
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File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Augustus Mayhew
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 1872
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Author : Mary Jane Chadick
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
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Transcribed, edited, and anotated Civil War journal written by Mary Jane Chaduck during the years of Federal invasion, 1862-1865.
Author : J. Cale Johnson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 3110642689
Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literature in Mesopotamia: physiognomic omens and what we might call ekphrastic description. These modalities are traced through ancient India, Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the physiognomic features of famous historical figures such as Themistocles, Socrates or Augustus in the Graeco-Roman world, where physiognomic discussions become intertwined with typological analyses of human characters. The Arabic compendial culture absorbed and remade these different physiognomic and ekphrastic traditions, incorporating both Mesopotamian links between physiognomy and medicine and the interest in characterological ‘types’ that had emerged in the Hellenistic period. This volume offer the first wide-ranging picture of these modalities of description in antiquity.
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Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Latter Day Saints
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Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2018-05-02
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ISBN : 9781717599704
We intend this Collection of Letters to be a Supplement to the "Life of Charles Dickens," by John Forster. That work, perfect and exhaustive as a biography, is only incomplete as regards correspondence; the scheme of the book having made it impossible to include in its space any letters, or hardly any, besides those addressed to Mr. Forster.
Author : George F. Horton
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Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 1995-03
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ISBN : 9780832845772
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Law
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Author : Joseph Green Butler (Jr.)
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Page : 938 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Mahoning County (Ohio)
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Author : Eli Field Cooley
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Ewing (N.J. : Township)
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