There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

For example, in a typical store installation, fifty 24-in. and six 36-in. red acrylic letters were mounted against a white painted wood background.

They had to act fast, for letters were clogging the terminals.

The letters which poured forth from camps were usually written under adverse circumstances.

Most of the letters were written in the hubbub of camp, on stumps, pieces of bark, drum heads, or the knee.

Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads.

Owing to the restrained usages characteristic of 19th-century America, these letters usually were stereotyped and revealed little depth of feeling.

Some of the letters were pungently expressive.

Some of the choicest remarks made by soldiers in their letters were in disparagement of unpopular officers.

all were empty except one, and that one was jammed with letters and magazines.

The demands were set forth in letters to seven owners of first-run theaters by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights.

There were many letters of strong protest against the portrait of the Anglican clergyman, who was indeed portrayed as a man not particularly concerned with religious matters and without really very much to do as clergyman.

Lower case letters were therefore not interleaved with upper case.

To keep options available for lower case letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter " A " was placed in position 41 < sub > hex </ sub > to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.

The ll and ch were also considered single letters, but in 1994 the Real Academia Española changed collating order so that ll is between lk and lm in the dictionary and ch is between cg and ci, and in 2010 the tenth congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies changed it so they were no longer letters at all < ref > Real Academia Española.

One early story with hints of backwards time travel is Memoirs of the Twentieth Century ( 1733 ) by Samuel Madden, which is mainly a series of letters from British ambassadors in various countries to the British Lord High Treasurer, along with a few replies from the British Foreign Office, all purportedly written in 1997 and 1998 and describing the conditions of that era.

Paine has one last card up his sleeve: he brings in bins of letters and telegrams from Smith's home state, purportedly from average people demanding his expulsion.

Teddy Roosevelt purportedly called the street the " World's Most Beautiful Drive " when he visited the Peoria area in October 1910 ; WMBD, a local radio and TV station, gets its call letters from Roosevelt's expression.

Trouten's mother received several typed letters, purportedly mailed while the couple was abroad, although the envelopes were stamped with Kansas City postmarks.

In March 1887, The Times printed letters purportedly from Parnell claiming sympathy with the murderers and that his public denunciation of them was insincere.

Three letters purportedly written from an Illinois prison by Joseph Smith used different ink, paper, and writing instruments.

A peculiarity of the work is its inclusion of a large number of purportedly authentic documents such as extracts from Senate proceedings and letters written by imperial personages.

" The second set of papers in there were letters purportedly written by Senator Kennedy involving some of his peccadilloes, if you will.

According to Zeno, the map and letters date from around the year 1400 and purportedly describe a long voyage made by the Zeno brothers in the 1390s under the direction of a prince named Zichmni.

This was purportedly because the pronunciation of the first two letters in Spanish ( kah-kah ) sounded like « caca », the Spanish vulgar slang word for feces.

The 1972 Five Nations Championship was not completed when Scotland and then Wales refused to play in Ireland following threatening letters to players, purportedly from the IRA.

It started in 1961 and features the letters of viewers offering praise, criticism and purportedly witty observations on the television of recent weeks.

" Media organisations and the police received many letters and postcards purportedly written by the killer, who was dubbed " Jack the Ripper " after one of the signatories.

The legend, propagated by email and message boards, purportedly demonstrates that readers can understand the meaning of words in a sentence even when the interior letters of each word are scrambled.

* Memoirs of the Twentieth Century ( 1733 ), by Samuel Madden, is mainly a series of letters from English ambassadors in various countries to the British " Lord High Treasurer ", along with a few replies from the British foreign office, all purportedly written in 1997 and 1998 and describing the conditions of that era.

Young Morris, who, while attending the University of Pennsylvania, also taught and edited a paper, found time to write Henrietta twenty-page letters on everything that engaged his interest, from the acting of Sarah Bernhardt in Philadelphia to his reactions to the comments of `` Sulamith '' on the Jewish reform movement being promulgated by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

Indeed, no richer humor is to be found in the whole of American literature than in the letters of the semi-literate men who wore the blue and the gray.

Similar comments about officers are to be found in the letters of Northern soldiers.

William Camden in his Remains commented, singling out some letters — Æ, K, W, Z — not found in the classical Roman alphabet:

The Jumble is a puzzle found in many newspapers in the United States requiring the unscrambling of letters to find the solution.

The main evidence of Liddell Hart's deceit and " tendentious " report of history can be found in his letters to the German Generals Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian, as well as relatives and associates of Erwin Rommel.

Historian Kenneth Macksey found Liddell Hart's original letters to Guderian, in the General's papers, requesting that Guderian give him credit for " impressing him " with his ideas of armoured warfare.

They arise out of a primitive practice on the part of the bishop ( local president ), examples of which are found in the Didachē ( Teaching of the Apostles ) and in the letters of Clement of Rome and Cyprian.

Many letters have shapes also found in the historical futhorc runes ( used in The Hobbit ), but their sound values are dissimilar.

In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages ( specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set ) directly: "+ e gives ë, ~+ o gives õ, etc.

The only surviving complete works by Epicurus are three letters, which are to be found in book X of Diogenes Laertius ' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, and two groups of quotes: the Principal Doctrines, reported as well in Diogenes ' book X, and the Vatican Sayings, preserved in a manuscript from the Vatican Library.

In it are contained the writings of an " Aesthete " ( called A ), as well as the letters of a Judge Vilhelm ( called B ), both found accidentally by Eremita in an antique writing desk.

Some ' Russian letters ' found in one version of St. Cyril's life are explainable as misspelled ' Syrian letters ' ( in Slavic, the roots are very similar: rus-vs. sur-or syr -), etc.

Interesting accounts of the impression produced by the performance at Rome may be found in the first volume of Felix Mendelssohn's letters and in Miss Taylor's Letters from Italy.

During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy ( Hattusa ) that began in 1906, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10, 000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names.

The meeting with Coronado was not effected, though Alarcón reached the appointed place and left letters, which were soon afterwards found by Melchior Diaz, another explorer.

Some of the letters are published with the Historia Langobardorum in the Monumenta ; the poems and epitaphs edited by Ernst Dümmler will be found in the Poetae latini aevi carolini, Band i. ( Berlin, 188f ).

A tomb found in St. Peter's Basilica in 1615 by Torrigio was inscribed with the letters LINVS, and was once taken to be Linus's tomb.

14th century BC Amarna letters | diplomatic letter in Akkadian language | Akkadian, found in Amarna.

Milgram found most of the letters addressed to individuals and favorable organizations were mailed, while most of those addressed to stigmatized organizations were not.

When Hugh returned to Scotland he found out that his contract had some small print letters that his failing sight did not allow him to see.

In these letters, Jerome described those books or portions of books in the Septuagint that were not found in the Hebrew as being non-canonical: he called them apocrypha.

Documents found on Wallace, and delivered to Edward by John de Segrave, included letters of safe conduct from Haakon V of Norway, Philip IV of France, and John Balliol, with other documents.