Author: Bath Humane Society (BATH)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Bath Humane Society, for the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning, or other accident. (Annual report for 1817.).
Author: Bath Humane Society (BATH)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois
Author: George FlowerPublisher:
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Category : Albion (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Japanese Death Poems
Author: Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146291649X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
American Slavery as it is
Author: Premature Burial and how it May be Prevented
Author: William TebbPublisher:
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Category : Burial, Premature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts, 1850 [electronic Resource]
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Author: Lemuel 1793-1859 ShattuckPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013614866
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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The Study of Sociology
Author: Herbert SpencerPublisher: London, D. Appleton
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Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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