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English Men of Letters was a series of literary biographies written by leading literary figures of the day and published by Macmillan, under the general editorship of John Morley. The original series was launched in 1878, with Leslie Stephen's biography of Samuel Johnson, and ran until 1892. A second series, again under the general editorship of Morley, was published between 1902 and 1919.

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English Men of Letters

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English Men of Letters was a series of literary biographies written by leading literary figures of the day and published by Macmillan, under the general...

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Men of letters

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men of letters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Men of Letters may refer to: Man of letters, certain types of intellectual people Men of Letters,...

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Letters on the English

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Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres philosophiques) are a series of essays written by Voltaire based on...

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Men of Letters

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Men of Letters: The Post Office Heroes who Fought the Great War is a book by Duncan Barrett, co-author of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides and editor of...

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Love Letters of Great Men

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Letters of Great Men, Vol. 1 is an anthology of romantic letters written by leading male historical figures. The book plays a key role in the plot of...

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English language

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differences in the pronunciations of the letters c and g are often signalled by the following letters in standard English spelling. Digraphs used to represent...

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Great Writers series

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imitation of English Men of Letters were English Worthies (Longman) and Literary Lives (Hodder). Two further lives from the same publisher, of John Ruskin...

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David Hume

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Mossner 1980, p. 204. Huxley, Thomas Henry (2011) [1879]. Hume. English Men of Letters. Vol. 39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-1-108-03477-7...

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John Morley

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Burke was Morley's contribution to Macmillan's "English Men of Letters" series of literary biographies, of which Morley himself was general editor between...

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Oliver Goldsmith

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Biography by Washington Irving from Project Gutenberg Goldsmith (English Men of Letters series) by William Black from Project Gutenberg An Essay on the...

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Republic of Letters

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scholars use "Republic of Letters" and "men of letters" interchangeably.[citation needed] The circulation of handwritten letters was necessary for its...

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Epipsychidion

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finished in 1426, by the Order of the Benedictine Nuns. Symonds, John Addington, "Percy Bysshe Shelley", English Men Of Letters, edited by John Morley. London:...

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Letters from Iwo Jima

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Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iōjima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 Japanese-language American war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring...

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Laurence Sterne

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ouvrages (second edition, Paris, 1882) H. D. Traill, Laurence Sterne, "English Men of Letters", (London, 1882) H. D. Traill. "Sterne". Harper & Brothers Publishers...

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Old English

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Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and...

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Frequency analysis

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characteristic distribution of letters that is roughly the same for almost all samples of that language. For instance, given a section of English language, E, T, A...

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram – a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. The phrase is commonly used...

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English orthography

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letters in English provide information about the pronunciation of other letters in the word. Rollings (2004) uses the term "markers" for such letters...

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Doctor of Letters

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Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) also termed "Doctor of Literature" in some countries is a terminal...

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Kubla Khan

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criminal intervention of personal malignancy." In a review of H. D. Traill's analysis of Coleridge in the "English Men of Letters", an anonymous reviewer...

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The Screwtape Letters

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The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetic novel by C. S. Lewis and dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien. It is written in a satirical, epistolary style...

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Jonathan Swift

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multiple names: authors list (link) Stephen, Leslie (1882). Swift. English Men of Letters. New York: Harper & Brothers. OL 15812247W. Noted biographer succinctly...

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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Eminent Women of the Age. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (in American Men of Letters series, 1902) John Greenleaf Whittier (in "English Men of Letters" series,...

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Middle English

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Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The...

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Of Mice and Men

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Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. It narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced...

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History of English

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Europe, a few native English letters such as þ and ð died out. For some time þe (modern "the") was written as ye. By the time of William Shakespeare (mid...

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