Bygones Worth Remembering is a two volume work of memoirs and recollections of George Holyoake, English man of letters known for developing the concept of secularism and for his activism in co-operative movement. Holyoake reminisces about notable people and events that occurred during his lifetime and career with the aim to keep clear of the sin of pretension. Persons worth remembering include George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, Harriet Martineau, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, John Stuart Mill, William Gladstone, Herbert Spencer, Benjamin Disraeli, and Joseph Cowen among others. Among events worth remembering are the story of the British Legion, never before told, story of the Lambeth palace grounds, personal incidents and many others.

Bygones Worth Remembering is a two volume work of memoirs and recollections of George Holyoake, English man of letters known for developing the concept of secularism and for his activism in co-operative movement. Holyoake reminisces about notable people and events that occurred during his lifetime and career with the aim to keep clear of the sin of pretension. Persons worth remembering include George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, Harriet Martineau, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, John Stuart Mill, William Gladstone, Herbert Spencer, Benjamin Disraeli, and Joseph Cowen among others. Among events worth remembering are the story of the British Legion, never before told, story of the Lambeth palace grounds, personal incidents and many others._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_

Reproduction of the original: Bygones Worth Remembering by George Jacob Holyoake

A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.