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  • 41American Renaissance — or New England Renaissance Period from the 1830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War in which U.S. literature came of age as an expression of a national spirit. The literary scene was dominated by New England Brahmin writers, notably… …

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  • 42John Kells Ingram — Activités poète, économiste, historien Naissance 7 juillet 1823 Templecarne (Aghnahoo), County Donegal, Irlande Décès 1er mai 1907 (à 84 ans) Dublin …

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  • 43humanities — n. pl. [With The prefixed.] Belleslettres, polite literature, elegant literature, literature as the vehicle of cultivated reason, literature as the union of truth and beauty …

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  • 44Elizabeth Griffith — Elizabeth Griffith, née Griffith ( c. 1727 ndash; 1793), was an eighteenth century Irish dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, best known for her edition of Shakespeare s comedies published in 1775. Biography Griffith was born in Wales …

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  • 45Literaturgeschichte — Kunst Geschichten = Berichte von neuesten technischen Apparaturen, Literatur Geschichten = Berichte von neuesten wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten im vorliegenden Fall aus dem Feld der Medizin und Meteorologie. Titelseite der Breslauischen Sammlungen,… …

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  • 46Bunyan, John — born November 1628, Elstow, Bedfordshire, Eng. died Aug. 31, 1688, London English minister and author. Bunyan encountered the seething religious life of various left wing sects while serving in Oliver Cromwell s army in the English Civil Wars. He …

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  • 47John Kells Ingram — Nacimiento 7 de julio de 1823 Fallecimiento …

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  • 48Language — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Language >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 language language Sgm: N 1 phraseology phraseology &c. 569 Sgm: N 1 speech speech &c. 582 Sgm: N 1 tongue tongue lingo vernacular Sgm …

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  • 49Humanist — Hu man*ist, n. [Cf. F. humaniste.] 1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff Herzog. [1913… …

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  • 50Samuel Egerton Brydges — Infobox Writer name = Sir Samuel Brydges, Bt imagesize = caption = pseudonym = birthdate = birth date|1762|11|30|mf=y birthplace = Wootton, Kent deathdate = death date and age|1837|9|8|1762|11|30|mf=y deathplace = Geneva occupation =… …

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