Disraeli B | Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

B
B, b, indecl. n., designates, in the Latin alphabet, the soft, labial sound as in English, unlike th...

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B
·- is the second letter of the English alphabet. (·see Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is e...

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D'Israeli, Isaac
(1766-1848) Miscellaneous writer, was descended from a Jewish family which had been settled first i...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of
(1804-1881) Statesman and novelist, was the s. of Isaac D. (q.v.). Belonging to a Jewish family set...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
A B C
·- The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. II. A B C ·- A primer for teach...

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Bury, John B.
LL.D., etc. (b. 1861) Historian. History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (1889), ...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
to know b from a
bull's foot. It is a common phrase to say, "He does not know B from a bull's foot," meaning that a p...

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