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  2. Book of the Civilized Man - Wikipedia

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    Civilized Man is a 3000-line Latin verse poem that gives proper advice on a wide range of social situations that the typical medieval person might have encountered in day-to-day life. Examples include: If you wish to belch, remember to look up to the ceiling. Do not attack your enemy while he is squatting to defecate.

  3. What a piece of work is a man - Wikipedia

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    No nor Man that is so glorious a creature, Contents not me, no nor woman too, though you laugh. [2] This version has been argued to have been a bad quarto, a tourbook copy, or an initial draft. By the 1604 Second Quarto, the speech is essentially present but punctuated differently: What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason,

  4. Interior with a Man Reading a Letter and a Woman Sewing

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    Due in part to the 'Great age of letter writing', the act of writing and thus reading a letter was increasing in popularity and still quite a significant event. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] De Hooch began his career with the painting of scenes called "Koortegardje", a bastardization of the French term, "Corps de garde", meaning guard house.

  5. Man Writing a Letter - Wikipedia

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    Man Writing a Letter is a companion piece to Woman Reading a Letter, in which the woman has received the young man's letter and is reading it intently. Metsu likely got the idea for a pair of themed paintings from Gerard ter Borch, who had painted a similar pair: Man Writing a Letter and A Woman Sealing a Letter. [1]

  6. William Horman - Wikipedia

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    William Horman (c. 1440 – April 1535) was a headmaster at Eton and Winchester College in the early Tudor period of English history. [1] He is best known for his Latin grammar textbook the Vulgaria, which created controversy at the time due to its unconventional approach in first giving examples of translations of English writings on different topics, and later discussing the rules of grammar ...

  7. The Man of the Crowd - Wikipedia

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    Walter Benjamin writes, "[The Man of the Crowd] is something like an X-ray of a detective story. It does away with all the drapery that a crime represents. Only the armature remains: the pursuer, the crowd, and an unknown man who manages to walk through London in such a way that he always remains in the middle of the crowd". [11]

  8. Wild and weird facts about RI's Independent Man statue atop ...

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    2018: The Independent Man (actually, a full-sized cast from the bronze statue taken when the man was down for repair in 1975.) stands in the parking lot outside of the food court of Rhode Island Mall.

  9. Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia

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    The art historian Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich, writing for Encyclopædia Britannica, states, "Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo ('cosmography of the microcosm'). He believed the workings of the human body to be an ...