New and complete dictionary of the German language for Englishmen, according to the German dictionary of Mr. J. C. Adelung, by C. G. K. and W. N. Neues ... deutsch-englisches Wörterbuch, etc

New and complete dictionary of the German language for Englishmen, according to the German dictionary of Mr. J. C. Adelung, by C. G. K. and W. N. Neues ... deutsch-englisches Wörterbuch, etc PDF Author: Carl Gottlob KUETTNER (and NICHOLSON (William))
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Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Vollständiges Deutsch-Engliches Wörterbuch

Vollständiges Deutsch-Engliches Wörterbuch PDF Author: Theodor Arnold
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Languages : en
Pages : 614

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Dictionary of European Proverbs

Dictionary of European Proverbs PDF Author: Emanuel Strauss
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134864604
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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This Dictionary contains over 50,000 proverbs, in some 70 European languages and dialects, arranged in 2,500 sets. It is the fruits of over 40 years of collection and research, the only collection of proverbs on anything like this scale ever to be published anywhere in the world. Emanuel Strauss has trawled through innumerable collections of proverbs in all languages, from early printed books and rare items to the latest theses and journals, and grouped together many thousands of proverbs in sets of equivalent meaning. Comprehensive indexes for each language provide access to any proverb by way of its key words. A critical bibliography musters some 500 items, from incunabula to the current decade.

A Compleat English Dictionary; Oder, Vollständiges Englisch-deutsches Wörterbuch ...

A Compleat English Dictionary; Oder, Vollständiges Englisch-deutsches Wörterbuch ... PDF Author: Nathan Bailey
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1650

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The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti's Eye

The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti's Eye PDF Author: Manu Herbstein
Publisher: Moritz HERBSTEIN
ISBN: 1508040168
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Sargrenti is the name by which Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley, KCMG (1833 – 1913) is still known in the West African state of Ghana. Kofi Gyan, the 15-year old boy who spits in Sargrenti’s eye, is the nephew of the chief of Elmina, a town on the Atlantic coast of Ghana. On Christmas Day, 1871, Kofi’s godfather gives him a diary as a Christmas present and charges him with the task of keeping a personal record of the momentous events through which they are living. This novel is a transcription of Kofi’s diary. Elmina town has a long-standing relationship with the Castelo de São Jorge da Mina, known today as Elmina Castle, built by the Portuguese in 1482 and captured from them by the Dutch in 1637. In April, 1872, the Dutch hand over the unprofitable castle to the British. The people of Elmina have not been consulted and resist the change. On June 13, 1873 British forces punish them by bombarding the town and destroying it. (It has never been rebuilt. The flat open ground where it once stood serves as a constant reminder of the savage power of Imperial Britain.) After the destruction of Elmina, Kofi moves to his mother’s family home in nearby Cape Coast, seat of the British colonial government, where Sargrenti is preparing to march inland and attack the independent Asante state. There, Melton Prior, war artist of the London weekly news magazine, The Illustrated London News, offers Kofi a job as his assistant. This gives the lad an opportunity to observe at close quarters not only Prior but also the other war correspondents, Henry Morton Stanley and G. A. Henty. Kofi witnesses and experiences the trauma of a brutal war, a run-up to the formal colonialism which would be realized ten years later at the 1885 Berlin conference, where European powers drew lines on the map of Africa, dividing the territory up amongst themselves. On February 6, 1874, Sargrenti’s troops loot the palace of the Asante king, Kofi Karikari, and then blow up the stone building and set the city of Kumase on fire, razing it to the ground. Kofi’s story culminates in his angry response to the British auction of their loot in Cape Coast Castle. The loot includes the solid gold mask shown on the front cover of the novel. That mask continues to reside in the Wallace Collection in London. The invasion of Asante met with the enthusiastic approval of the British public, which elevated Wolseley to the status of a national hero. All the war correspondents and several military officers hastened to cash in on public sentiment by publishing books telling the story of their victory. In all of these, without exception, the coastal Fante feature as feckless and cowardly and the Asante as ruthless savages. The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti’s Eye tells the story of these momentous events for the first time from an African point of view. It is told with irony and with occasional flashes of humor. The novel is illustrated with scans of seventy engravings first published in The Illustrated London News. This book won a Burt Award for African Literature which included the donation by the Ghana Book Trust of 3000 copies to school libraries in Ghana. In 2016, at the annual conference of the African Literature Association held in Atlanta, GA, it received the ALA’s Creative Book of the Year Award. Manu Herbstein has done what the best cultural historians of Africa should do: that is, read between the lines of the colonial archives to imagine what it was like to be an African alive at that time, witnessing and interpreting events. Prof. Stephanie Newell, Yale University Manu Herbstein’s The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti’s Eye is a masterwork of historical fiction. Trevor R. Getz, Ph.D. San Francisco State University

Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen sprachen vergleichend, zusammengestellt

Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen sprachen vergleichend, zusammengestellt PDF Author: Freifrau Ida von Reinsberg-Du ringsfeld
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Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Teutsch-englisches Lexicon. 2. U. Verb. Aufl

Teutsch-englisches Lexicon. 2. U. Verb. Aufl PDF Author: Christian Ludwig
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Languages : en
Pages : 1354

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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385479371
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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A new hand-dictionary of the English language for the Germans and of the German language for Englishmen, etc.-Neues Hand-Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache, etc

A new hand-dictionary of the English language for the Germans and of the German language for Englishmen, etc.-Neues Hand-Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache, etc PDF Author: Johann EBERS
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Languages : en
Pages : 1560

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Sounds and Systems

Sounds and Systems PDF Author: David Restle
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110894653
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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The integration of traditional and modern linguistics as well as diachrony and synchrony is the hallmark of an influential trend in contemporary research on language. It is documented in the present collection of 21 new papers on the history and structure of the sounds and other (sub-) systems of human languages, sharing the common reference point of Theo Vennemann, a leading figure in the above-mentioned trend, whom the authors want to honor with this Festschrift.