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All that Makes a Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

All that Makes a Man

As the realities of the war became apparent, however, the letters and diaries turned from idealized themes of honor and country to solemn reflections on love and home."--Jacket.

Princes of Cotton
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 571

Princes of Cotton

A rogue, a megalomaniac, a plodder, and a depressive: the men whose previously unpublished diaries are collected in this volume were four very different characters. But they had much in common too. All were from the Deep South. All were young, between seventeen and twenty-five. All had a connection to cotton and slaves. Most obviously, all were diarists, enduring night upon night of cramped hands and candle bugs to write out their lives. Down the furrows of their fathers' farms, through the thickets of their local woods, past the familiar haunts of their youth, Harry Dixon, Henry Hughes, John Coleman, and Henry Craft arrive at manhood via journeys they narrate themselves. All would be swept ...

Knowing Poetry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Knowing Poetry

In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the literary norm. Instead of dying out, however, verse took on new vitality. In France verse texts were produced, in both French and Occitan, with the explicit intention of transmitting encyclopedic, political, philosophical, moral, historical, and other forms of knowledge. In Knowing Poetry, Adrian Armstrong and Sarah Kay explore why and how verse continued t...

The Wallis Family of Kent County, Maryland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

The Wallis Family of Kent County, Maryland

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-07-11
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Samuel Wallis, son of Henry Wallis, was born in about 1674. He married Anne, widow of William Pearce, in about 1703 in Cecil County, Maryland. They had seven children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Maryland.

The Good Intent
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

The Good Intent

Phillips chronicles the history of two Fresno families who could trace their bloodlines to nobility in 17th-century Britain.

The Hapgood Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 744

The Hapgood Family

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1898
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Proceedings of the Symposium on the Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 966
Proceedings of the Sesque-centennial Gathering of the Descendants of Isaac and Ann Jackson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 764