Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008277956/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 26 of
26
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""Abraham Lincoln's political and moral stature as a major public figure of the nineteenth century is indisputable and well attested to in his published works. His use of proverbial language added rhetorical prowess to his speeches, letters, proclamations, and memoranda. Both his oral and written communications are replete with metaphorical and colloquial language in the form of proverbs, proverbial expressions, proverbial comparisons, wellerisms, twin formulas, and triads. His effective employment of Biblical and folk proverbs, as well as proverbial phrases, makes him a masterful orator and writer."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11517652.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Abraham Lincoln's political and moral stature as a major public figure of the nineteenth century is indisputable and well attested to in his published works. His use of proverbial language added rhetorical prowess to his speeches, letters, proclamations, and memoranda. Both his oral and written communications are replete with metaphorical and colloquial language in the form of proverbs, proverbial expressions, proverbial comparisons, wellerisms, twin formulas, and triads. His effective employment of Biblical and folk proverbs, as well as proverbial phrases, makes him a masterful orator and writer."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Abraham Lincoln and the Proverb 1 -- Biblical Proverbs Against Slavery 3 -- "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand" 10 -- Untilled Field of Folk Proverbs 18 -- "Broken Eggs Cannot Be Mended" 24 -- "Let Us Have Faith That Right Makes Might" 25 -- Introductory Formulas and Proverbial Allusions 28 -- Classical Phrases and Wellerisms 30 -- "It Was Not Best to Swap Horses When Crossing Streams" 34 -- "Government of the People, by the People, for the People" 35 -- "You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time ..." 37 -- Proverbial Expressions as Effective Rhetoric 38 -- Animal Proverbs as Signs of Human Behavior 41 -- Body Politic of Proverbial Expressions 44 -- Proverbial Comparisons, Twin Formulas, and Triads 48 -- Proverbs as Sound Bites and Mini-Messages 51.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "209 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Proverbial Abraham Lincoln.".
- catalog identifier "0820449555 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Proverbial Abraham Lincoln.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog relation "Proverbial Abraham Lincoln.".
- catalog subject "973.7/092 21".
- catalog subject "E457.99 .M63 2000".
- catalog subject "Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Indexes.".
- catalog subject "Proverbs, American Indexes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Abraham Lincoln and the Proverb 1 -- Biblical Proverbs Against Slavery 3 -- "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand" 10 -- Untilled Field of Folk Proverbs 18 -- "Broken Eggs Cannot Be Mended" 24 -- "Let Us Have Faith That Right Makes Might" 25 -- Introductory Formulas and Proverbial Allusions 28 -- Classical Phrases and Wellerisms 30 -- "It Was Not Best to Swap Horses When Crossing Streams" 34 -- "Government of the People, by the People, for the People" 35 -- "You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time ..." 37 -- Proverbial Expressions as Effective Rhetoric 38 -- Animal Proverbs as Signs of Human Behavior 41 -- Body Politic of Proverbial Expressions 44 -- Proverbial Comparisons, Twin Formulas, and Triads 48 -- Proverbs as Sound Bites and Mini-Messages 51.".
- catalog title "The proverbial Abraham Lincoln : an index to proverbs in the works of Abraham Lincoln / Wolfgang Mieder.".
- catalog type "Indexes. fast".
- catalog type "text".