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While Homer Roared

Clean Limericks, to Warm the Chuckles of Your Heart

By: Basil Wentworth

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While Homer Roared

Clean Limericks, to Warm the Chuckles of Your Heart

By: Basil Wentworth

My aim in publishing these little jewels has been twofold: to vent some of the outrageous puns and other wordplay that keeps invading my mind, and to show the world that a limerick can be fun without being "dirty". To quote from the introductory section of the book: "these limericks are clean. For the most part, squeaky clean. Although a mild double entendre does creep in now and then, if you are looking for a rich mudhole of salacious or scatological innuendo to wallow in, these are not for you." Read them, and enjoy!

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1425971652

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9781425971656

Carteret and Newcastle

By: Basil Williams

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Carteret and Newcastle

By: Basil Williams

This book, originally published in 1943, presents an account of the lives and careers of John Carteret (1690-1763) and Thomas Pelham-Holles (1693-1768).

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257

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Cambridge University Press

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1107675138

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9781107675131

Monuments to Faith

Ukrainian Churches in Manitoba

By: Basil Rotoff,Roman Yereniuk,Stella Hryniuk

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Monuments to Faith

Ukrainian Churches in Manitoba

By: Basil Rotoff,Roman Yereniuk,Stella Hryniuk

Ukrainians first came to Canada a century ago, seeking a new life on the western prairies. They brought with them an ancient and rich cultural tradition, deeply rooted in Christianity. The most visible symbol of this tradition is the Ukrainian church with its distinctive cupolas. As soon as the settlers were established in the new land, they began to reshape their environment by building churches in the styles they remembered from their homeland.In this richly illustrated volume, the authors trace the continuity of tradition in achitecture, art, and community life from Ukraine to the parishes of the Manitoba prairie. In a detailed examination of the exteriors and interiors of forty-nine churches, the book establishes a typology of Ukrainian church designs. Biographies of the architects, master builders, and artists are included, along with a guide to the art and architecture of a Ukrainian church.

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688

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Univ. of Manitoba Press

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0887550444

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9780887550447

The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2

Earl of Chatham

By: Basil Williams

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The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2

Earl of Chatham

By: Basil Williams

This impressive study of the life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was first published in 1913 when it achieved instant recognition as a brilliant appraisal of Pitt's career. It is a book with many outstanding merits to commend it to students of eighteenth century English history. Based on thorough and extensive researches, it traces Pitt's career from his election as a Member of Parliament for Old Sarum in 1735 and gives a well balanced account of his part in home and foriegn politics and colonial affairs during the next 30 years. The book contains many good maps and an excellent index, and a very valuable appendix gives a list of all Pitt's extant speeches, with references to where reports of them may be found. These two substantial volumes are invaluable as a portrait of one of the most outstanding historical figures of the eighteenth century.

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440

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Taylor & Francis

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0415410045

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9780415410045

The Life of Wiliam Pitt Earl of Chatham

Volume 1

By: Basil Williams

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The Life of Wiliam Pitt Earl of Chatham

Volume 1

By: Basil Williams

Published in 1966: The object of this book is to give a picture of Pitt, true to life and ‘captivating the people,’ whom he served and loved. He has sometimes suffered in history because the people who appreciated him at his highest were inarticulate and have left the field to the surmises of courtiers, Whig magnates and gossips, whom he sought not to please.

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408

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Routledge

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0429615736

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9780429615733

Sliding Down the Banisters of Life

By: Basil Jay

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Sliding Down the Banisters of Life

By: Basil Jay

This may be a book about an ordinary life but it is more than that, much more. Firstly, if Basil Jays life has been ordinary, then the Bugatti Veyron Super Sports is a family saloon. In his life he has been described as many things. A Surveyor, a Businessman, and an Entrepreneur. A Musician, a Poet, a Writer and a Thespian. An Adventurer, a Chancer, a Receiver of Stolen Goods, an Alleged Money Launderer, a Tax Fugitive (as denounced in the Houses of Parliament). But most of all, a Husband, a Father and a Grandfather, and finally an ex-patriot living in a hot and balmy exile where he was effectively forced by an unrelenting tax inspector at the end of the nineteen-eighties (an action for which Basil is now able to offer his heartfelt thanks). He has been locked up for a killing in Afghanistan, witnessed a ritual stoning for adultery in Ghazni, held up by gunmen in the Khyber Pass, accused of drug smuggling in Pakistan, and spent almost five days, in a Turkish Bath in Istanbul whilst being coerced (unsuccessfully) to front a 300 million shakedown inTurkey just an ordinary life. Basil uses his fascinating life as the thread with which to lead the reader through the six decades of the twentieth- century that followed the second world-war. The bombed ruins of the FORTIES, the austerity of the FIFTIES, the music and burgeoning promiscuity of the SIXTIES, the hopes of the SEVENTIES, the aspirations of the EIGHTIES, the political incompetence but strange peace of the NINETIES, and into the so called, NEW DAWN of the Third Millennium. Basil is an able guide, there is not a decade where he has not been in the thick of the social, political, or business action. His story is the story of an ordinary man, living an ordinary life, but getting into the most outrageously extra-ordinary scrapes,(almost all of them of his own making). It is a living, and a social history written in the honest and hilarious style for which Basil Jay has become known. It is a read which can be thoroughly recommended

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711

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1481799703

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9781481799706

The Life of William Pitt, Volume 1

Earl of Chatham

By: Basil Williams

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Earl of Chatham

By: Basil Williams

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432

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Routledge

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1136625666

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9781136625664

Soldier and Scholar

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War

By: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

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Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War

By: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

In assembling Gildersleeve's writings-- autobiographical, Richmond Examiner newspaper editorials, and Southern essays, Briggs (classics and humanities, U. of South Carolina) brings to light the reflections of a U. of Virginia classics scholar during the Civil War. His classical rhetoric lends a novel twist to his loyalist but critical views on the South's "Good Cause," in chastising the Confederate administration as well as critics of slavery and Yankee poet "sinners" against the English language. Includes a few bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Virginia Press

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0813917433

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9780813917436

The Aurelian Legacy

British Butterflies and Their Collectors

By: Michael A. Salmon,Peter Marren,Basil Harley

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The Aurelian Legacy

British Butterflies and Their Collectors

By: Michael A. Salmon,Peter Marren,Basil Harley

This entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the 17th century, when the study of natural history had its beginnings. Laced with anecdotes and quotations, the beautifully illustrated volume describes the equipment used and gives brief biographies of 101 deceased lepidopterists. 58 illustrations, 42 in color.

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Univ of California Press

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0520229630

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9780520229631

Chastellux's Travels in North-America

In the Years 1780-81-82

By: Basil Hall

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Chastellux's Travels in North-America

In the Years 1780-81-82

By: Basil Hall

Francois Jean De Beauvoir, Marquis De Chastellux was born in Paris, France in 1734. He joined the French Army as a Second Lieutenant at the age of 13 and rose through the ranks during the Seven Years' War. Chastellux came to be as famous for his literary work, with his publication of a book on philosophy in 1772, as he was for his military exploits. When the French expeditionary forces assigned to the Revolutionary Continental Army set sail for America in 1779, he was one of the three major generals sent with General Rochambeau. They arrived in America and took part in the victorious Yorktown campaign. Invaluable to the Continental Army commanders for his command of the English language, Chastellux remained in America until returning to France in early 1783. Travels in North America is an account of Chastellux's travels between campaigns, including a journey through Virginia in April 1782. Translated from the French by an English gentleman, who resided in America at the period, with notes by the translator. The book also includes a biographical sketch of the author, letters from Gen. Washington to the Marquis de Chastellux, and notes and corrections by the American editor. This first American impression is a reprint of Grieve's translation, published in London in 1787, in a "consolidated and economical form" (from the Preface).

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Applewood Books

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1429001275

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9781429001274

Book's by Basil Wentworth

While Homer Roared

While Homer Roared

Carteret and Newcastle

Carteret and Newcastle

Monuments to Faith

Monuments to Faith

The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2

The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2

The Life of Wiliam Pitt Earl of Chatham

The Life of Wiliam Pitt Earl of Chatham

Sliding Down the Banisters of Life

Sliding Down the Banisters of Life

The Life of William Pitt, Volume 1

The Life of William Pitt, Volume 1

Soldier and Scholar

Soldier and Scholar

The Aurelian Legacy

The Aurelian Legacy

Chastellux's Travels in North-America

Chastellux's Travels in North-America

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