1. ANTOINE FRANCOIS PREVOST Antoine Francois Prevost. Prevost, Antoine Francois (16971763), French author and novelist, was born at Hesdin the full name of Pr6vost d'Exiles in a letter to the booksellers http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PR/PREVOST_ANTOINE_FRANCOIS.htm

ANTOINE FRANCOIS PREVOST PREVOST, ANTOINE FRANCOIS (1697-1763), French author and novelist, was born at Hesdin, Artois, on the ist of Apri 1697. He first appears with the full name of Pr6vost d'Exiles in a letter to the booksellers of Amsterdam in 1731. His father Lievin Prevost, was a lawyer, and several members of the family had embraced the ecclesiastical estate. Prevost was educatec at the Jesuit school of Hesdin, and in 1713 became a novice o: Manon Lescaut, one of the greatest novels of the century, is very short; it is entirely free from improbable incident, it is penetrated by the truest and most cunningly managed feeling; and almost every one of its characters is a triumph of that analytic portraiture which is the secret of the modern novel. The chevalier des Grieux, the hero, is probably the most perfect example of the carrying out of the sentiment " All for love and the world well lost " that exists_in fiction, at least where the circumstances are those of ordinary and probable life. Tiberge, his friend, is hardly inferior in the difficult part of mentor and reasonable man. Lescaut, the heroine's brother, has vigorous touches as a bully and Bohemian; but the triumph of the book is Manon herself. Animated by a real affection PREVOST, C.PRIAM For the bibliography of Prevost's works, which presents many complications, and for documentary evidence of the facts of his life see H. Harrisse, L'Abbe Prevost (1896); also a thesis (1898) by V. Schroeder.

2. PREVOST, CONSTANT Prevost, Antoine Francois (16971763), French author and novelist, was born at Hesdin, Artois, on the ist of the full name of Pr6vost d'Exiles in a letter to the booksellers http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PR/PREVOST_CONSTANT.htm

PREVOST, CONSTANT PRETTYPREVOST, A. F. For the elder Pretorius see G. M, Theal, Compendium of the History and Geography of South Africa, 3rd ed. (London, 1878), and History of South Africa, vol. iv. [1834-1854] (London, 1893). For the younger Pretorius see vol. v. of the same series. PRETTY, a word usually applied in the sense of pleasing in appearance, without connoting those qualities which are described as beautiful or handsome. In Old English praettig meant tricky, cunning or wily, and is thus used to translate the Latin sagax, astutus, callidus,in a vocabulary of about 1000. Praett meant a trick, and this word is seen in many forms in Dutch, cf. the words prettig, sportive, part, trick. A connection has been suggested with the Greek irpaKrucos, irpaTTtiv, to do, make, through Latin practica, practice, performance; but the New English Dictionary rejects these, as also Celtic sources, as unfounded. From " cunning " to skilful, and thence to its use as a term of general appreciation as is so often used by Pepys, the development is easy. PREVARICATION, a divergence from the truth, equivocation, quibbling, a want of plain-dealing or straightforwardness, especially a deliberate misrepresentation by evasive answers, often used as a less offensive synonym for a lie. The Latin praevaricalio was specifically applied to the conduct in an action at law in which an advocate (praevaricator) in collusion with his opponent put up a bad case of defence. Praevari-care meant literally to walk with the legs very wide apart, to straddle, hence to walk crookedly, to stray from the direct road, varicus, straddling, being derived from varus, bow-legged, a word which has been connected etymologically with German quer, transverse, across, and English "queer."

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List of Authors in alphabetical order A B C D ... Z Abbott , David Phelps 1863-1934 Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926 AKA: Square, A Andy Adams, 1859-1935 Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803 Adams, William Taylor, 1822-1897 AKA: Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897 Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Aesop, 620(?)B.C.-563(?)B.C. Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1966 Akutagawa, Ryunosuke, 1892-1927 Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 Altemus, Henry Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander), 1862-1919 American Tract Society, The Andersen, Hans Christian, 1805-1875 Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 Anonymous Anzengruber, Ludwig, 1839-1889 Appleton, Victor, pseudonym Apuleius, Lucius Ariosto, Ludovico, 1474-1533 Aristophanes BACK TO ORDER PAGE Aristotle, 384-322 B.C Arnim, Elizabeth von AKA: Elizabeth, 1866-1941 Arnim, Ludwig Achim, Freiherr von, 1781-1831 Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d. 1935 Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568

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Authors of the Past Authors in alphabetical order A B C D ... Z Abbott , David Phelps 1863-1934 Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926 AKA: Square, A Andy Adams, 1859-1935 Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803 Adams, William Taylor, 1822-1897 AKA: Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897 Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Aesop, 620(?)B.C.-563(?)B.C. Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1966 Akutagawa, Ryunosuke, 1892-1927 Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 Altemus, Henry Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander), 1862-1919 American Tract Society, The Andersen, Hans Christian, 1805-1875 Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 Anonymous Anzengruber, Ludwig, 1839-1889 Appleton, Victor, pseudonym Apuleius, Lucius Ariosto, Ludovico, 1474-1533 Aristophanes BACK TO ORDER PAGE Aristotle, 384-322 B.C Arnim, Elizabeth von AKA: Elizabeth, 1866-1941 Arnim, Ludwig Achim, Freiherr von, 1781-1831 Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d. 1935 Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568

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This is www.e-text.worldwide-library.org the e-text control site of the Worldwide-Library organization Index site Home site UK2- Test Library Find out about the WWL ... Go to master site index Select section required Home page for this site Listing of authors e-texts we hold Other identified texts ... Texts we can't have Listing of authors Information Authors Editors and translators Links See the information page for a description of this table. A Abbott, David Phelps, 1863-1934 Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926 AKA: Square, A Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877 Adams, Andy, 1859-1935 Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803 Adams, William Taylor, 1822-1897 AKA: Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897 Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719 Aesop, 620(?)B.C.-563(?)B.C. Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1966 Aikman, William, 1824-1909 Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882

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ANTOINE FRANCOIS PREVOST PREVOST, ANTOINE FRANCOIS (1697-1763), French author and novelist, was born at Hesdin, Artois, on the ist of Apri 1697. He first appears with the full name of Pr6vost d'Exiles in a letter to the booksellers of Amsterdam in 1731. His father Lievin Prevost, was a lawyer, and several members of the family had embraced the ecclesiastical estate. Prevost was educatec at the Jesuit school of Hesdin, and in 1713 became a novice o: Manon Lescaut, one of the greatest novels of the century, is very short; it is entirely free from improbable incident, it is penetrated by the truest and most cunningly managed feeling; and almost every one of its characters is a triumph of that analytic portraiture which is the secret of the modern novel. The chevalier des Grieux, the hero, is probably the most perfect example of the carrying out of the sentiment " All for love and the world well lost " that exists_in fiction, at least where the circumstances are those of ordinary and probable life. Tiberge, his friend, is hardly inferior in the difficult part of mentor and reasonable man. Lescaut, the heroine's brother, has vigorous touches as a bully and Bohemian; but the triumph of the book is Manon herself. Animated by a real affection PREVOST, C.PRIAM For the bibliography of Prevost's works, which presents many complications, and for documentary evidence of the facts of his life see H. Harrisse, L'Abbe Prevost (1896); also a thesis (1898) by V. Schroeder.

7. University Of Tennessee Libraries Special Collections Library Prevost, Antoine Francois, called Prevost d Exiles, 16971763. Histoire Generale des Voyages . Haye P. de Hondt, 1747- . 18 v. and 2 suppl. http://www.lib.utk.edu/spcoll/korea.html

8. Prevost D Exiles, Antoine Francois Prevost d Exiles, Antoine Francois. 16971763, French novelist, journalist, and cleric. After a dissolute youth he entered (1720) the http://pt.slider.com/enc/43000/Prevost_d'Exiles_Antoine_Francois.htm

9. Literatura.net.pl Historia Manon Lescaut i kawalera de Grieux Antoine Francois Prevost. Antoine Francoise Prevost d Exiles (16971763), powiesciopisarz, publicysta http://www.literatura.net.pl/?id=10838832120rsvmJyFlPZFrnQvxMHuZb&nazwa_strony=d

10. Paul Lafargue: Sappho (1886) Translate this page 16. * Zuhälter. 17. * Abbe Antoine Francois Prevost d’Exiles (1697-1763) verfaßte die Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, die als Vorlage http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/lafargue/1886/01/sappho.htm

MIA Deutsch Marxisten Lafargue Paul Lafargue Sappho Le Socialiste , 9. Januar 1886 Sappho Die Neue Zeit , IV, 1885-1886, 237ff. Diese Version aus Paul Lafargue, Transkription: Fritz Keller. HTML-Markierung: Monsieur Daudets Roman Sappho teilt diese Ansicht; sie hat Victor Hugo Sappho Sappho Sappho sagt: Wenn er den Fisch bringt, liefert man ihm die Sauce. Monsieur Dumas, der Sohn, nicht der Vater Er prellt sie von vornherein. Im vorigen Jahrhundert entbrannte der Chevalier Desgrieux Anfang der Seite Anmerkungen * Anonym erschienen in Le Socialiste Sappho Neue Zeit Religion des Kapitals Einleitung zu Paul Lafargue, Germinal ) die Streitschrift Ich klage an Notre-Dame de Paris und Correspondence , Moskau 1960, I, S.290ff.) eine Studie ( Die Legende von Victor Hugo Neue Zeit * Satz fehlt in der deutschen Version. Geheimnisse von Paris Die Kameliendame Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut Anfang der Seite Zuletzt aktualisiert am

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15. The Lost Continent Of - Look Dale, The Flying City Of The Hawkmen William Hickling, 17961859 Presidents, United States Pretty, Francis Prevost d Exiles, Antoine Francois, 1697- 1763 AKA Prevost, Abbe, 1697-1763 Prevost, Abbe http://www.lost.co.nz/main/library/gutenauth.html?printable=true

16. PF JU - Historicky Ustav JU - Antologie Zaniklych Zenskych Ctnosti - Zlata Kniha zpet. 2 Antoine -Francois Prevost d Exiles, 1697-1763, fr. prozaik, autor prosluleho romanu Pribehy rytire des Grieux a Manon Lescaut. zpet. http://www.hu.jcu.cz/veda/ant09.html

Antologie zaniklych zenskych ctnosti Zlata kniha ceske zeny. Nakladatelske druzstvo Maje v Praze, Praha 1909. Zena na strazi rodinne mravnosti J. D. K. Ve velike vetsine ceskych rodin jako vubec u vsech narodu zena jest onou strunou, ktera v harmonii s muzem a detmi udava nejmekci a nejlahodnejsi ton. Ji namnoze odkazany jsou duchovni stranky rodinneho zivota, ji sverena byva pravidlem vychova deti a zhusta take vychova muzova. Nezna, prozirava a moudra zena cini take neznym a uslechtilym muze, nemluvic ani o detech, ktere zejmena ve svem rozvijeni byvaji obycejne vetsim obrazem matcinym nez otcovym. Co nemuze detem podati skola a zvlaste co jim schazi, kdyz skolni brany za nimi jiz se zavrely, to ma doplnovati rozumna dvojice rodicu, ma jim dati ono dalsi dobre vychovani, ktere vedle skoly jest nemene dulezitym zakladem pro vsechen budouci zivot. Ale snahy a cinnost otcova nemuze se soustrediti na domov a na rodinu tak jako pusobeni matcino. Povolani otcovo rozptyluje pusobnost a usili jeho navenek, otec casto byva hostem doma a krb rodinny jest mu mnohdy onim kouzelnym mistem, kam utrmacen prichazi sklonit hlavu, aby si odpocinul. A tu moudra zena byva na svem vykazanem miste, tu jest kralovnou nemene dustojnou a zodpovednou nez zeny, ozdobene korunami. A zvlaste v uslechteni ducha opravdova matka vykonati muze divy. Videti to casto u vdovy, ktera bez opory muzovy prece vychovala nekolik ditek, a vsechny jsou sporadane, uhlazene, vzdelane a hodne, kdezto zase jinde neprozretelna matka a otec nedovede ucinit radnym clovekem ani jedinacka.

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PREVOST, CONSTANT PRETTYPREVOST, A. F. For the elder Pretorius see G. M, Theal, Compendium of the History and Geography of South Africa, 3rd ed. (London, 1878), and History of South Africa, vol. iv. [1834-1854] (London, 1893). For the younger Pretorius see vol. v. of the same series. PRETTY, a word usually applied in the sense of pleasing in appearance, without connoting those qualities which are described as beautiful or handsome. In Old English praettig meant tricky, cunning or wily, and is thus used to translate the Latin sagax, astutus, callidus,in a vocabulary of about 1000. Praett meant a trick, and this word is seen in many forms in Dutch, cf. the words prettig, sportive, part, trick. A connection has been suggested with the Greek irpaKrucos, irpaTTtiv, to do, make, through Latin practica, practice, performance; but the New English Dictionary rejects these, as also Celtic sources, as unfounded. From " cunning " to skilful, and thence to its use as a term of general appreciation as is so often used by Pepys, the development is easy. PREVARICATION, a divergence from the truth, equivocation, quibbling, a want of plain-dealing or straightforwardness, especially a deliberate misrepresentation by evasive answers, often used as a less offensive synonym for a lie. The Latin praevaricalio was specifically applied to the conduct in an action at law in which an advocate (praevaricator) in collusion with his opponent put up a bad case of defence. Praevari-care meant literally to walk with the legs very wide apart, to straddle, hence to walk crookedly, to stray from the direct road, varicus, straddling, being derived from varus, bow-legged, a word which has been connected etymologically with German quer, transverse, across, and English "queer."

20. Prevost D'Exiles, Antoine Francois. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 20 Prévost d’Exiles, Antoine François. (äNtwän´ fräNswä´ pr v ´ d gz l´) (KEY) , known as Abbé Prévost (äb ´ pr v ´) (KEY) , 1697–1763, French http://www.bartleby.com/65/pr/Prevostd.html

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