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Of these, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, The Yale Book of Quotations and The MacMillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases are considered among the most reliable and comprehensive sources.
That year, he was appointed to revise and enlarge Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ( 11th edition in 1937 and 12th edition in 1948 ).
According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Voss is the most likely source for the phrase Wein, Weib und Gesang, or, in English, wine, women and song.
Morison's first marriage to Elizabeth S. Greene produced four children — one of whom, Emily Morison Beck, became editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
In the fifteenth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ( 1980 ), nine sections of " Ulysses ", comprising 36 of the poem's 70 lines, are quoted, compared to only six in the ninth edition ( 1891 ).
) Thus the quote " Nice guys finish last " has long been attributed to Durocher, including an entry in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
In the twentieth century and to the present day Colton has been read most frequently perhaps in quotation books, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, where many of his aphorisms have been preserved.
Southey's version of the quote was taken up by John Bartlett ( 1820-1905 ), the compiler of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ( ninth edition, 1902, p. 853 ).
John Bartlett ( June 14, 1820 – December 3, 1905 ) was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death.
" Variations on this quote have been attributed to Martin Luther, although Bartlett's Familiar Quotations names Johann Heinrich Voss ( 1751 – 1826 ) as a more likely source.
John Russell Bartlett should not be confused with John Bartlett, publisher of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
It was very popular throughout the 19th century — its popularity was sufficient for two quotations to appear in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and for Lewis Carroll to refer to it in his poem Melancholetta.
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: When Bartlett's approached me in — I forget what year, five or six years ago — I got a call from the editor.
( The figure commonly given, 87 ° 47 ', is based upon Bartlett's slight miscomputation of the distance of a single Sumner line from the pole.
* Sir Humphrey also had an old acquaintance: Sir Desmond Glazebrook ( played by Richard Vernon ), who was Board member, then Chairman, of Bartlett's Bank.
The rear view of the Florida Tropical House, part of the World's Fair Houses located in Beverly Shores. Robert Bartlett, Frederick Bartlett's brother, purchased the properties in 1933, He named the entire development after his daughter Beverly, and continued to develop its infrastructure with roads, a school, a golf course, and a hotel.
In November 2008, the old Bruno's Bar was reopened after much renovation under the name Bartlett's, a nod to the developer, Robert Bartlett.
The regiment left the state October 14, 1862 ; it served in the defenses of Washington in the 3rd Brigade, Abercrombie's Division, from October 16, 1862 ; in 3d, Hughston's, Brigade, Gurney's Division, Department of Virginia, at Suffolk, Virginia, from April, 1863 ; in the 1st Brigade, Gordon's Division, of 7th Corps, from May, 1863 ; of 4th Corps, from June, 1863 ; in the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 11th Corps, from July 14, 1863 ; in the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Corps, from April, 1864 ; in the 2d Brigade, Bartlett's Division, 22d Corps, from June 30, 1865 ; and, under Col. Horace Boughton, it was honorably discharged and mustered out July 20, 1865, at and near Washington, D. C.
On May 6, 1865, Union Colonel William C. Bartlett's 2nd North Carolina ( Federal ) Mounted Infantry were raiding, pillaging, burning homes and engaging in other activities to undermine the economic base of the area and were attacked at White Sulphur Springs ( east of Waynesville ) by a detachment of rebels from the Thomas Legion of Highlanders, who had been summoned for help by locals.
His first project, released as a solo album, was the soundtrack to Hall Bartlett's film version of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
In one of Governor Wentworth's last acts before being expelled from New Hampshire in 1775, he revoked Bartlett's commissions as Justice, Militia Colonel, and Assemblyman.
Lewis has petitioned the editors of Bartlett's to be given credit for the coinage, but the editors claim that the phrase was a common idiom prior to Lewis's use of it.
* Bartlett's Point – A hamlet west of Clayton village, located on a geographical feature, also called Bartletts Point.
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