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A Pennsylvania Dutch variant, c. 1790, of the Sator Square, one of the spells in The Long Lost Friend. Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend is a book by John George Hohman published in 1820. Hohman was a Pennsylvania Dutch healer; the book is a collection of home- and folk-remedies, as well as spells and talismans.
Hohman's best known work is the collection of prayers and recipes for folk-healing titled Pow-Wows, or the Long Lost Friend, published in German in 1820 as Der Lange Verborgene Freund (The Long-Hidden Friend) and in two English translations—the first in 1846 in a rather crude translation by Hohman himself ("The Long Secreted Friend or a True ...
James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849, in the town of Greenfield, Indiana, the third of the six children of Reuben Andrew and Elizabeth Marine Riley.Riley's grandparents came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before moving to the Midwest [1] [2] [n 1] Riley's father was an attorney, and in the year before his birth, he was elected a member of the Indiana House of Representatives as a ...
The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words.
Myron Bolitar: a sports agent who assists his ex-lover Terese in tracking down her long lost daughter. Terese Collins: once a CNN anchor, divorced from Rick Collins, was Myron's lover on an island. Windsor "Win" Horne Lockwood, III: Myron's friend from Duke and sidekick. Earned great wealth through an inheritance of Lock-Horne Securities ...
The shorter version by Reader's Digest of this poem was also included in Dale Carnegie's book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People". Carnegie described it as; One of the popular writings in American journalism. Initially, it was published as an editorial in 1927 in the People's Home Journal. Since then, it has been printed in numerous ...
Musk detailed his falling out with Page, who he once considered a very close friend. Close may be underselling it. The duo was included in Fortune’s 2016 list of “8 business leaders you didn ...
Sonnet 30 starts with Shakespeare mulling over his past failings and sufferings, including his dead friends and that he feels that he hasn't done anything useful. But in the final couplet Shakespeare comments on how thinking about his friend helps him to recover all of the things that he's lost, and it allows him stop mourning over all that has happened in the past.