Lectures in aid of Self Improvement, addressed to young men and others
Author : Thomas Toke Lynch
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Ethics
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Author : Thomas Toke Lynch
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Ethics
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Author : Randy Pausch
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 1856
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Page : 562 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1856
Category : English literature
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Author : Jeffrey R. Holland
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781609072711
The author explores dozens of scriptural passages from the psalms, offering personal ideas and insights and sharing his testimony that "no matter what the trouble and trial of the day may be, we start and finish with the eternal truth that God is for us."--
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Sarah Ogilvie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0593469984
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. “Enthralling and exuberant, Sarah Ogilvie tells the surprising story of the making of the OED. Philologists, fantasists, crackpots, criminals, career spinsters, suffragists, and Australians: here is a wonder book for word lovers.” —Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind’s greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of others. Of deep transgenerational and broad appeal, a thrilling literary detective story that, for the first time, unravels the mystery of the endlessly fascinating contributors the world over who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read and write and speak. It was the greatest crowdsourcing endeavor in human history, the Wikipedia of its time. The Dictionary People is a celebration of words, language, and people, whose eccentricities and obsessions, triumphs, and failures enriched the English language.
Author : Longmans, Green and co
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Page : 822 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 1860
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Books
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Art
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