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A German Diet: Or, The Ballance of Europe, Wherein the Power and Weaknes, Glory and Reproch, Vertues and Vices, Plenty and Want, Advantages and Defects, Antiquity and Modernes of All the Kingdoms and States of Christendom are Impartially Poiz'd. At a Solemn Convention of Som German Princes in Sundry
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may have also played a part. Howell continued to write and publish from prison. He was released in 1651. He dedicated Some Sober Reflections (1656) to Cromwell, praising him for ending the Rump Parliament in 1653, obsequiously fawning over the Protector in the process, ending his dedication, "I rest
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After graduation, he had a variety of employments, as an administrator for a glass manufacturer, and in the often combined roles of secretary and instructor to several noble families. As factory agent and negotiator he traveled widely in Europe and learned to speak several languages, apparently with
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prescribing as certain rules as the language will bear, for forreners to learn English: there is also another grammar of the Spanish or Castilian Toung, with some special remarks upon the Portugues dialect, &c. whereunto is annexed a discours or dialog containing a perambulation of Spain and
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An Exact Historie of the Late Revolutions in Naples; and of Their Monstrous Successes, Not to be Parallel'd by any Ancient or Modern History. Published by the Lord Alexander Giraffi in Italian; and (for the Rarenesse of the Subject) Rendred to English, by J[ames] H[owell]
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The Second Part of Massaniello, His Body Taken Out of the Town-ditch, and Solemnly Buried, with Epitaphs upon Him. A Continuation of the Tumult; the D of Guise Made Generalissimo; Taken Prisoner by Young Don John of Austria. The End of the
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Together, with a large Grammar, and a Dialogue consisting of all Gallicismes, with additions of the most usefull and significant Proverbs, with other refinements according to Cardinall Richeleiu's late
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Paroimiographia. Proverbs, or, old Sayed Sawes & Adages in English (or the Saxon Toung) Italian, French and Spanish whereunto the British, for their great antiquity and weight are added
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Lustra Ludovici, or the Life of the late Victorious King of France, Lewis the XIII. (And of his Cardinall de Richelieu.) Divided into seven lustres. Consilium Armorum Cardo. (London, 1646)
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at Jesus College in 1623, but he was never formally admitted and his place was taken by another in 1626. Until he was 13, he was schooled in Hereford. He went to Oxford at the age of 19.
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He was a prolific writer, and he is among the first writers to earn his living solely from writing in the English language. He was also the first writer of an
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The Last Will and Testament of the Late Renowned Cardinal Mazarini, Deceased February 27, 1660 together with Some Historical Remarques of His Life
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in London, for which he paid himself as mentioned in his will of 1666, was destroyed in World War II by German bombing.
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in 1660. This lexicon also contains a thematic dictionary in 52 sections, ranging from anatomy to cosmology. Howell's
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In 1650, Howell revised and expanded Cotgrave and Sherwood's French and English dictionary of 1632, under the title
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A New English Grammar Prescribing Certain Rules as the Language will Bear for Foreigners to Learn English
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The Formative Period of English Familiar Letter-writers and Their Contribution to the English Essay
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a work of foreign language teaching and the first work of its kind in the English language.
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Chris Roberts, Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind Rhyme, Thorndike Press,2006 (
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Portugal, which may serve for a direction how to travel through both Countreys, &c.
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The Vision, or, A Dialog between the Soul and the Bodie: Fancied in a Morning-dream
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Instructions for Forreine Travell, 1642: Collated with the Second Edition of 1650
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in 1643, ostensibly as an insolvent debtor, although his political criticisms in
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great facility. He also met and befriended numerous literary figures, among them
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with notes on travel in Spain and Portugal "for the service of Her Majesty".
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Londonopolis: An Historical Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London
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This article is about the Welsh historian and writer. For other uses, see
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A Restoration Publicist: James Howell and the Earl of Clarendon, 1661-6
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Elaborat Orations Pro & Con. Made Fit for the Meridian of England
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Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary
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with its collection of British (i.e. Welsh) proverbs because the
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Cotgrave, Randle; Sherwood, Robert (1660). Howell, James (ed.).
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Cotgrave, Randle; Sherwood, Robert (1650). Howell, James (ed.).
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in August 1661, recommended the separate republication of the
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Proverbs, or Old Sayed-Sawes, and Adages in the English Toung
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Epistolae Ho Elianae Familiar Letters Domestic & Forren
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Some modern historians of formal English consider Howell's
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Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren
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Engraved titlepage of the 1645 edition of James Howell's
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Translation: Beginning, Continuance and Decay of Estates
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at the George near St Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet.
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This saying is found on page 12 of the section titled
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To lexicography Howell contributed his quadrilingual
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The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington
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An Exact Historie of the Late Revolutions in Naples
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John Worthington, writing in his 13: 556: 130:, a novel of letters, in English ( 73:– he was to be elected to a 14: 959: 822: 417:Proverbios, Refránes Y Traducción 258:Instructions for Forraine Travell 943:Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford 866: 841:Dictionary of National Biography 572:Dictionary of National Biography 205:, engraving by William Marshall. 69:In 1613 he gained his B.A. from 938:Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford 788: 760: 734: 700: 686: 673: 653: 638: 628:A French and English Dictionary 585:Hansche, Maude Bingham (1902). 161:itself "is not so desirable". 619: 603: 541: 505: 488: 462: 1: 928:17th-century Welsh historians 213:contains the famous saying: " 47: 40: 21:James Howell (disambiguation) 716:. English Reprints . London. 278:(1650) and its continuation 246:published in the same year). 239:(1644; also addended to the 64: 7: 865:(public domain audiobooks) 767:Alexander Giraffi (1652). 741:Alexander Giraffi (1650). 614:. London: Richard Whitaker. 612:A French-English Dictionary 365:(Finett; edited by Howell). 178:A French-English Dictionary 10: 964: 516:. London: Samuel Thomson. 115:' but were then known as ' 32:A 1641 engraving of Howell 18: 891: 881: 876: 591:. Haskell. pp. 37–38 537:. London: Samuel Thomson. 443: 164:Howell was imprisoned in 80: 630:. London: William Hunt. 455: 393:The Venice Looking Glass 369:St. Paul's Late Progress 327:Paramoigraphy (Proverbs) 287:Le rivolutioni di Napoli 221:Principal literary works 481:Encyclopædia Britannica 419:(Lexicon Tetraglotton). 389:(translated by Howell). 802:. 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Index

James Howell (disambiguation)

Thomas Howell
Bishop of Bristol
Jesus College, Oxford
fellowship
Ben Jonson
Kenelm Digby
English Civil War
Privy Council
Dodona's Grove
newsletters
tracts
pamphlets
epistolary novel
Fleet Prison

All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy
Dendrologia, Dodona's Grove, or the Vocall Forest
England's Teares, for the Present Wars
2nd edition of Dodona's Grove
Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren
Massaniello
S.P.Q.V.: A Survay of the Signorie of Venice
Londonopolis: An Historical Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London
Daniel Woolf
Paul Seaward
Temple Church
Chisholm, Hugh
"Howell, James" 

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