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Excerpt from Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated With Notes and Comments, To Which Is Added, a Summary of Ancient Pastimes, Holidays, and Customs, With an Analysis of the Wisdom of the Ancients, and of the Fathers of the Church, The Whole Arranged on a New PlanThe Spanish proverbs are celebrated for their pith and humour, but they are more characteristic of the age of cervantes and gil blas than of the modern Spaniards. They are replet...

reShape yourSelf in Seven Days is "highly recommended" by visionary health expert and bestselling author, Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS, who is internationally recognized as a pioneer in dietary, environmental, and women's health issues and is known as "The First Lady of Nutrition" among her millions of followers worldwide.Millions of women from all over the world find themselves trapped in fat-agony hell. They desperately want to escape from...

Excerpt from The House of Lords: Its History, Rights and Uses, With a Short Summary of the Past Actions of Some of Our Old NobilityThe reader will notice that in some portions the subject has been dealt with in an abrupt and fragmentary manner intentionally so - simply from a desire to confine this work to a definite size, and also that the ideas herein expressed might be followed up and enlarged by the reader himself. They are merely intended...

Excerpt from Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated With Notes and Comments, To Which Is Added, a Summary of Ancient Pastimes, Holidays, and Customs, With an Analysis of the Wisdom of the Ancients, and of the Fathers of the Church, The Whole Arranged on a New Plan The Spanish proverbs are celebrated for their pith and humour, but they are more characteristic of the age of cervantes and gil blas than of the modern Spaniards. They are repl...

This is the first of three volumes of plays by Henry Fielding, whose vibrant early career in theatre has been overshadowed by his later fame as the author of novels like Tom Jones. This edition makes his plays, and his rich gift for theatrical comedy, accessible for the first time in modern form.

Both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) were prompted by the success of Richardson's Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy parody. In both works Fielding demonstrates his concern for the corruption of contemporary society, politics, religion, morality, and taste. This revised and expanded edition follows the text of Joseph Andrews established by Martin C. Battestin for the definitive WesleyanEdition of Fielding's works. T...

Excerpt from The House of Lords: Its History, Rights and Uses, With a Short Summary of the Past Actions of Some of Our Old Nobility The object of the following pages is twofold: - 1st. To correct, in some measure, the misrepresentations and apocryphal tales which are so frequently circulated about the origin, use, and position of our Aristocracy. 2nd. To furnish those who desire to look into the subject with some reliable data and with a few ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...