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Author: Frank Forth, Jr
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595445756
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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This book is a collection of stories based on the author's childhood in South Florida and on his adult family life and career as a forester in Georgia. The author uses his stories to entertain his readers and to teach some of life's important lessons.
Author: Frank Forth, Jr
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595445756
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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This book is a collection of stories based on the author's childhood in South Florida and on his adult family life and career as a forester in Georgia. The author uses his stories to entertain his readers and to teach some of life's important lessons.
Author: Silas Little
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Category : Trees in cities
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465514147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
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A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third—the picture of the Last Supper at Milan—has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance has become so wellknown and popular through copies of every description. Vasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Leonardo, "that he laboured much more by his word than in fact or by deed", and the biographer evidently had in his mind the numerous works in Manuscript which have been preserved to this day. To us, now, it seems almost inexplicable that these valuable and interesting original texts should have remained so long unpublished, and indeed forgotten. It is certain that during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries their exceptional value was highly appreciated. This is proved not merely by the prices which they commanded, but also by the exceptional interest which has been attached to the change of ownership of merely a few pages of Manuscript. That, notwithstanding this eagerness to possess the Manuscripts, their contents remained a mystery, can only be accounted for by the many and great difficulties attending the task of deciphering them. The handwriting is so peculiar that it requires considerable practice to read even a few detached phrases, much more to solve with any certainty the numerous difficulties of alternative readings, and to master the sense as a connected whole. Vasari observes with reference to Leonardos writing: "he wrote backwards, in rude characters, and with the left hand, so that any one who is not practised in reading them, cannot understand them". The aid of a mirror in reading reversed handwriting appears to me available only for a first experimental reading. Speaking from my own experience, the persistent use of it is too fatiguing and inconvenient to be practically advisable, considering the enormous mass of Manuscripts to be deciphered. And as, after all, Leonardo's handwriting runs backwards just as all Oriental character runs backwards—that is to say from right to left—the difficulty of reading direct from the writing is not insuperable. This obvious peculiarity in the writing is not, however, by any means the only obstacle in the way of mastering the text. Leonardo made use of an orthography peculiar to himself; he had a fashion of amalgamating several short words into one long one, or, again, he would quite arbitrarily divide a long word into two separate halves; added to this there is no punctuation whatever to regulate the division and construction of the sentences, nor are there any accents—and the reader may imagine that such difficulties were almost sufficient to make the task seem a desperate one to a beginner. It is therefore not surprising that the good intentions of some of Leonardo s most reverent admirers should have failed.
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Author: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH
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Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385526272
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: Robert Carruthers
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Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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