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Joseph Jacobs
Australian Historian
Born: Aug 29, 1854
Died: Jan 30, 1916
Been Between Country Great National Will
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Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. Joseph Jacobs
National Plot Characters Tales Fairy Fairy Tales Same Differ Incidents Treatment
Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. Joseph Jacobs
Country France Possessed Collected Date Had Over Tales Equally Within Said Been Years Italy Up Fifteen Each
Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect. Joseph Jacobs
Sometimes Will Those Read Dialect Children Larger Growth
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. Joseph Jacobs
Good Speak Old Will Ambition Nurse Has-Been Tells Write Generally Tales She Fairy Fairy Tales Been Speaking
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. Joseph Jacobs
History Say Purely Properly Almost Scientific Geographical Motive Discovery Begins Curiosity The History Of So-Called Might Cook Captain Whose
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer. Joseph Jacobs
First Earth Possessed Poems Shape Glimpse Name Passing Greeks Afforded Which Inhabitants Notions Homer
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. Joseph Jacobs
Fate Empire Fair Bids Greeks Romans Resemble Among British British Empire
The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found. Joseph Jacobs
Truth Me Truth Is Problem Important Think Tale Reviewer Friends Differ Where Origin Found Originated Saturday
The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered. Joseph Jacobs
Life Practice Every Sign Though Collected Term Still Been Celtic While Story-Telling Full Vigour Numbered
In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country. Joseph Jacobs
Together Country Society Cinderella Kindred Brought Various Throughout Volume Miss Particular Identical How Cox Than Substantially Stories Formula Less Europe Incidents Showing Each Widespread
Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople. Joseph Jacobs
Before Doubt Once Remains Obscure Tales Genre Still Were Models Romance Which Little Us Origin Originals Belong
Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air. Joseph Jacobs
Strange Walls Every Air Once City Born Open Stepped Bounds Beyond Knows Equally None Least May Wondrous Happen Place Which Land Forth

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