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Sto caricando le informazioni... Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: 18th Edition (originale 1855; edizione 2012)di John Bartlett (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaFamiliar Quotations di John Bartlett (1855)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. List by author in approximately chronological order of famous or interesting quotations. An index of authors at the beginning and a huge index of quotes at the end make it easy to find things. The title page says that this is the fifteenth and 125th anniversary edition, revised and enlarged, edited by Emily Morison Beck and the editorial staff of Little, Brown and Company. It's fun to just open the book to a random page and start skimming and reading---an example of how books are better than facing a blank search box on a webpage for serendipitous learning. Nonetheless, I haven't touched the book in a few years and I'm tidying, so I hope this donation to a local library book sale will let this book find another good home. The strongest reason for getting rid of this book is the reason I probably never will--this stood on the family bookshelves before I was born--this edition is from 1955. I remember browsing through it as a child and finding quotations that spoke to me. As such it was a gateway to literature, since it made me want to read books by the authors of those beautiful lines. And I like that although there are Author and Subject Indices, the book is organized chronologically, from Ancient Egypt ("To resist him that is set in authority is evil" - The Instruction of Ptahhotep) to Queen Elizabeth II ("My whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service...") nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A completely revised and updated edition provides a sweeping overview of the cultural influence of inspirational language and includes new contributions by such authors as the Dalai Lama, Steve Jobs and Desmond Tutu. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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For example this quote is not in there. There is nothing by Emerson in this edition.
Ralph Waldo Emerson put it this way. He said, “We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.” (John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 14th ed. [Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1968], p. 609.)
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