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Observations on the Religion, Law, Government, and manners of the Turks. The second edition, corrected and enlarged by the Author. To which is added, the state of the Turkey Trade, from its origin to the present time.
No full textDedication:Content description: TitlePagination: PP36+464PVolumes: 1Edition:2ndText Genre:Pros
Observations sur la religion, les loix, le gouvernement et les mœurs des Turcs. Traduites de l' Anglois, De M.Porter, Ministre Plénip. de Sa M. Britaunique (sic) à Constantinople. Nouvelle édition considérablement augmentée de notes faites par un Voyageur
No full textPreface: by the translatorDedication:Pagination: 187PText Genre:Pros
Turkey; its History and Progress: from the journals and correspondence of sir James Porter, fifteen years ambassador at Constantinople; continued to the present time, with a memoir of sir James Porter, by his Grandson, sir George Larpent, Bart.&,&,&
No full textPreface.Appendix.Dedication:Pagination: PP11+497P, PP5+451PVolumes: 2Text Genre:Pros
Talking Animals
No full textThis hundred-page book was originally published in 1949 and then reprinted in 1985. Hambly brought back from West Africa many objects for the Field Museum in Chicago. He published some of the stories he heard there, but he also enjoyed telling the stories to children who came to the museum. This is the book of those stories; they seem a standard collection of African tales. A number of them are aetiological. Thus the antelope encounters seven different tortoises at different points along his straight seven-hundred-yard path. This story does not have the usual double-back feature of the standard Aesopic race between hare and hedgehog. Dejected at the end, the antelope tries to commit suicide by putting his head into the fork of a tree. When a leopard growls, he starts and thus elongates his neck (11), One whole section is about the mutual attempts of tortoise and hare to trick each other. Tortoise seems to be the regular winner. I find Tortoise Loved a Girl (37) a touching story. Tortoise alone was kind to her and so received her in marriage. Another touching story is that of the abused lioness who finally beats and takes her son away from her husband while he has a pot stuck around his head (78). Hambly's introductions to the sections sound politically incorrect now after fifty-five years, as when the introduction to Boys and Birds (43) contains this statement: I am afraid that boys often rob the nests of birds, but we must remember that Negro boys have some excuse for this since they have to use every kind of food available, and the eggs are appetizing. I find the stories to be expanded fables; they are about two full pages each in length. The expansion lies in details of color and history behind the story. The expansion serves especially to create a character out of the animal involved.By Wilfrid Dyson Hambl
100. Porter (James L), Nietzsche and the philology of the future
No full textHummel Pascale. 100. Porter (James L), Nietzsche and the philology of the future. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 114, Juillet-décembre 2001. pp. 759-762
100. Porter (James L), Nietzsche and the philology of the future
No full textHummel Pascale. 100. Porter (James L), Nietzsche and the philology of the future. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 114, Juillet-décembre 2001. pp. 759-762
101. Porter (James L), The invention of Dionysus. An essay on The birth of tragedy
No full textHummel Pascale. 101. Porter (James L), The invention of Dionysus. An essay on The birth of tragedy. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 114, Juillet-décembre 2001. pp. 762-763
Alien Registration- Porter, James W. (Bridgewater, Aroostook County)
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Alien Registration- Porter, James A. (Caribou, Aroostook County)
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