Chronograms Continued: And Concluded More Than 5000 in Number a Supplement-Volume to 'Chronograms' Published in the Year 1882 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

James Hilton

9780265259047: Chronograms Continued: And Concluded More Than 5000 in Number a Supplement-Volume to 'Chronograms' Published in the Year 1882 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265259045 ISBN 13: 9780265259047

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Chronograms Continued<br/><br/>Here are three chronograms, and good ones, because they fulfil the leading condition 1n the composition of chronograms, that of counting every letter that can be used as a numeral, and because they express a meaning appropriate to the subject and agreeable to the author of the book. And here I take the opportunity of informing all readers of this present volume, that it is needful, and unavoidably so, to make frequent reference to the previous work, when the subject under notice will derive elucidation from a comparison of the two works. Very few chronograms are to be found in English churches further research has brought into notice only the five which follow: the county of Devon has afforded the greatest number of examples....

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James Hilton was the author of more than twenty novels, including the bestselling Good-bye, Mr. Chips. He was also a screenwriter, with credits including such classic films as Mrs. Miniver, which won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1942, and Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent. Born in England in the year 1900, Hilton emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s. He died in 1954.

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