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... pay and doesn‟t share in the pay raises of the other professors. Another Norwegian professor of my acquaintance was forced into an undesired retire... ... “On the home front, for years we have had robots that understand simple language. Now we are working on robots deciphering non-verbal language, li... ...th English and Chinese. We send them the materials they need to learn the languages. They are also tested on their knowledge of our customs, history ... ...ve special talents, particularly in mathematics, music, the arts, sports, language facility. This helps the parents to help and encourage the child ... ... is delivered over the internet. Educational games teach them our English language along with Chinese, math and science, history and the other neces... ... and no uniforms—but you save 50% or more. “In a recent strike of Norwegian Scandinavian Airlines System flight attendants, who were already ... ...nd fewer hours of work. They opened the door even wider for the low cost Norwegian Airlines to make even more inroads into the Norwegian flying pub...

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...ism a book which seeks to give, in the lucid transparency of our beautiful language, the luminous poesy of the Orient, to you the blame! Did you not c... ...e took pleasure in recording by ineffaceable hiero- glyphics the symbol of Norwegian life, bestowing on these coasts the conformation of a fish’s spin... ... the rays of the sun, bears cultivation and shows the native growth of the Norwegian flora. Here the expanse of the fiord is broad enough to allow the... ...ives among the reefs to reach the deep-sea fishing,—the staple industry of Norwegians on the least dangerous portions of their coast. The fish of the ... ...nd the fleeting but terrible heat of the sun with the shrewd ability which Norwegians display in the two-fold struggle. The difficulty of communicatio... ...en your thought cannot compass the wealth of beauty nor the poetry of this Norwegian coast. Can your thought be as vast as the ocean that bounds it? a... ...k beautiful?” “Human words do not apply to her. Heart to heart is the only language I can use.” “Wilfrid, you are kind to soothe my griefs with such s... ..., looking occasionally at his daughter, who seemed to understand the man’s language as in harmony with the strange being who inspired it. Wilfrid was ... ... it rises for him alone in the midst of the living. “This is certainly the language of a man in love,” said the good pastor, innocently. “In love!” cr...

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... the original, as far as a prose translation will permit. T o this end the language has been made as simple and as Saxon in char- acter as possible. A... ...solete words have been used, and these are explained in the notes, but the language has been made to some extent archaic, especially in dialogue, in o... ...antedates the latter by many centuries, and was known to all nations whose languages prove by their resemblance to the German tongue their original id... ...n Harald Harfagr changed the ancient free con- stitution of the land, many Norwegians emigrated to Ice- land, taking with them these acquired legends,... ...he Viking period, when Christianity was already beginning to influence the Norwegians, that is, between the years 800 and 1000. They are partly heroic... ...ch an old man Nornagest relates to King Olaf Tryggvason, who converted the Norwegians to Chris- tianity. The story was written about 1250 to illustrat... ...o called the “Niflungasaga.” The “Thidreksaga” was written about 1250 by a Norwegian who, as he himself tells us, heard the story from Germans in the ... ...nd the wise dwarf Regin, who taught him the knowledge of runes and of many languages. * At the suggestion of Regin, Sigurd asks for and receives the s... ...burns his fingers, and, putting them in his mouth, understands at once the language of the birds and hears them say that Sigurd himself should eat the...

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...u :— “If anybody asks who said this, who put this history into the Romance language, I say and I will say to him that I am Wace of the isle of Jersey,... ...hts moved, and his mind dwelt on her national epic heroes. Not only in his language, which belongs to the period of transition from Anglo Saxon to Mid... ... p. 79, note 1; Modern Philology , I., 5 8; Pub lications of the Modern Language Association of America , XXV ., 25 ff. See also the notes on the l... ...re , VII. (Boston, 1900), 183 ff.; L.F . Mott, Publications of the Modern Language Asso ciation of America, XX, 231 ff.; J.L. Weston, as above (p. x... ...may have used a corruption of one form of the fay’s name, Morgant ( Modern Language Notes, March, 1911, pp. 65 68). I have discussed the various versi... ...e, and give to outland folk what was due to the dwellers in the realm. The Norwegians resolved to make king one of their own house, that he might cher... ...large number remained. In this manner Lot the King of Lyones destroyed the Norwegians from the land. Having delivered Norway from itself Arthur grante... ..., and Lorraine, the king bade to his dinner. Frisian and T euton, Dane and Norwegian, Scot, Irish, and Icelander, him of Cathness and of Gothland, the...

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... the hostile blood of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons, or to unite, by common language and mutual interests, two hos- tile races, one of which still felt... ...ere the pomp and state of a court was emulated, Norman-French was the only language employed; in courts of law, the pleadings and judgments were deliv... ... from this necessity arose by degrees the structure of our present English language, in which the speech of the victors and the vanquished have been s... ...ich has since been so richly improved by im- portations from the classical languages, and from those spo- ken by the southern nations of Europe. This ... ...ter- tained the valiant and unfortunate Harold, then advancing against the Norwegians, who had united themselves to the rebel T osti. It was in this h... ...ore.’ “The hall rung with acclamations, and cup and horn was filled to the Norwegian, who should be speedily in posses- sion of his English territory.... ... more of his kingdom, than the share which he allotted in his wrath to the Norwegian invader? — Who would have thought that you, noble Athelstane—that... ...ess, is still shown to the curious traveller, was furiously contested. One Norwegian long defended it by his single arm, and was at length pierced wit... ...nother the “Battle flats.” From a tradition that the weapon with which the Norwegian champion was slain, resembled a pear, or, as others say, that the...

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... munch sandwiches and throw the crusts on the floor. A large brick-colored Norwegian 23 Sinclair Lewis takes off his shoes, grunts in relief, and pro... ...an working over his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty... ...let’s!” shrieked Juanita Haydock. “Say, Dave, give us that stunt about the Norwegian 50 Main Street catching a hen.” “You bet; that’s a slick stunt; ... ...grays” which Ezra still drove. The town was as hetero- geneous as Chicago. Norwegians and Germans owned stores. The social leaders were common merchan... ...new with a cold cer- tainty that Dave was rehearsing his “stunt” about the Norwegian catching the hen, Ella running over the first lines of “An Old Sw... ... were beginning that cough which indi- cated, in the universal instinctive language, that they desired to go home and go to bed. 84 Main Street While... ...ke the rest of us. And I don’t know where he’d ever learn so dog-gone many languages anyway! He kind of lets people assume he went to Harvard or Berli... ...quy in the pidgin-German of the farmers who have forgotten the Old Country language without learning the new: “Hello, Barney, wass willst du?” “Morgen... ... get drunk?’ That’s just what she called him—pup. `I’ll have no such nasty language in my house,’ I says, `and you pretending and pulling the wool ove...

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...e in a sawing undertone. “You see,” he said, “the church does not talk our language. I doubt if it understands our language. I 24 The Soul of a Bisho... ...to a group of people who had gathered upon a little beach at the head of a Norwegian fiord. There were three lads, an old man and two women, and they ... ...sh up these dead to us. Why does the world suffer these things? Why did we Norwegians, who are a free-spirited people, permit the Germans and the Swed... ...obe, “while Chinese merchants and T urkish troopers, school-board boys and Norwegian fishermen, half-trained nurses and Boer farm- ers are full of the...

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...eopagitica by JOHN MILTON 1644 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...d and elegant humanity of Greece, than the barbaric pride of a Hunnish and Norwegian stateliness. And out of those ages, to whose polite wisdom and... ... conceit of an Imprimatur; but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the language of men, ever famous and foremost in the achievements of libert... ... learning, that they writ in an unknown tongue, so long as we are sure those languages are known as well to the worst of men, who are both most able, ... ...he might add from Sir Francis Bacon, That such authorised books are but the language of the times. For though a licenser should happen to be judicio... ...he Hercynian wilderness, not their youth, but their staid men, to learnour language and our theologic arts. Yet that which is above all this, ...

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...famous Icelandic author of the twelfth century! It is the chronicle of the Norwegian princes who ruled in Iceland.” “Indeed;” I cried, keeping up wond... ... be quite a polyglot. Not that he could speak fluently in the two thousand languages and twelve thousand dialects which are spoken on the earth, but h... ...nsonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore... ...ern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore this is in a southern language.” These were very fair conclusions, I thought. “But what language ... ... against the notion that these barbarous words could be- long to the sweet language of Virgil. “Yes, it is Latin,” my uncle went on; “but it is Latin ... ... sincerely. As for me, I adored her, if there is such a word in the German language. Thus it happened that the picture of my pretty Virlandaise threw ... ...lm were growing side by side, the Australian eucalyptus leaned against the Norwegian pine, the birch-tree of the north mingled its foliage with New Ze...

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...o himself, a con- siderable amount of business. He had done, in commercial language, ‘a good stroke of business.’ Upon two floors, viz., the cellar-fl... ...arr’s murderer, now at work!’ All explained itself in a moment: the silent language of the fact made its own eloquent revelation. The mysterious exter... ... man in the house recognized at once the well- known initials of an honest Norwegian ship-carpenter, John Petersen, who had worked in the English dock... ... the case of any primitive Christian teacher having attempted to speak the language of scientific truth in dealing with the phenomena of astronomy, ge... ...jects, will not condescend to teach at all. The Bible adopts the erroneous language of men (which at any rate it must do, in order to make itself unde... ...nd, in relation to their causes, speaks by the same popular and inaccurate language which is current for ordinary purposes, even amongst the most scie...

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...a, even the rows of ungovernable children, sat absorbed in watching as the Norwegian drama unfolded itself. The actors are peasants. The leader is the... ...ith all one’s soul. But when one sees the perfect Ibsen, how one hates the Norwegian and Swedish nations! They are detestable. They seem to be fingeri... ...s about the real Ibsen: the same thing is in Strindberg and in most of the Norwegian and Swedish writings. It is with them a sort of phallic wor- ship... ..., but—’ he said, ‘it was D’Annunzio. The other ….’ ‘That was Ibsen—a great Norwegian,’ I said, ‘famous all over the world.’ ‘But you know—D’Annunzio i... ... beautiful!’ There was no going beyond this ‘bello—bellissimo’. It was the language which did it. It was the Italian passion for rhetoric, for the spe... ...ly cares about the emotion. It is the movement, the physical effect of the language upon the blood which gives him supreme satisfaction. His mind is s... ... her hair down her back; I could call her by a hundred names, in a hundred languages, Melisande, Elizabeth, Juliet, Butterfly, Phèdre, Minnehaha, etc.... ... had gone mad. They were youths and men who always tortured him, using bad language which startled us very much as he repeated it, there on the little... ... even asked to teach 104 D. H. Lawrence Italian. His knowledge of his own language was remarkable and most unusual! ‘But what,’ I asked, ‘brought you...

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...ficant expression, except through sharp discharges of stones, that being a language older than Hebrew or Sanscrit, and universally intelligible. But, ... ...cable sense. True it was that my eye was preternaturally keen for flaws of language, not from pe- dantic exaction of superfluous accuracy, but, on the... ...the con- trary, from too conscientious a wish to escape the mistakes which language not rigorous is apt to occasion. So far from seeking to “pettifogu... ...nd of interesting suggestions in Lord M.’s “Dissertations on the Origin of Language;” but to 75 Autobiographic Sketches us he communicated only one s... ...even then by name the Aoristus Primus, as a respectable tense in the Greek language. It (or shall we say he?) was known to the whole Christian world b... ...stage, you soon begin to feel yourself entering the stream as it were of a Norwegian maelstrom; and the stream at length becomes the rush of a catarac...

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...chose, as their general in chief, a Briton, whom the Romans in their Latin language called —, but whose British name is supposed to have been Caswall... ...engist and Horsa, two Saxon chiefs. Both of these names, in the old Saxon language, signify Horse; for the Saxons, like many other nations in a rough... ...struct his people, prob ably did more to preserve the beautiful old Saxon language, than I can imagine. Without whom, the English tongue in which I t... ..., but of a strong mind. And his armies fought the Northmen, the Danes, and Norwegians, or the Sea Kings, as they were called, and beat them for the ti... ...ourites were all Normans; he introduced the Norman fashions and the Norman language; in imitation of the state custom of Normandy, he attached a great... ... was a vassal of Harold Hardrada , King of Norway. This brother, and this Norwegian King, joining their forces against England, with Duke William’s h... ...such a fight King Harold led against that force, that his brother, and the Norwegian King, and every chief of note in all their host, except the Norwe... ...othe nor quell the nation as he wished. He gradually introduced the Norman language and the Norman customs; yet, for a long time the great body of the...

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...regions of Europe till the elev- enth century: eight hundred years ago the Norwegians were still worshippers of Odin. It is interesting also as the cr... ... an adjective signifying godlike also. Indeed, Adam Smith, in his Essay on Language, surmises that all adjectives whatsoever were formed precisely in ... ...oration;—held mainly by the inward indissoluble bond of a common blood and language. In this way had the Arabs lived for long ages, unnoticed by the w... ...exaggerated, this of the Nestorian Monk. Mahomet was only fourteen; had no language but his own: much in Syria must have been a strange unintelligible... ..., impatient of the silence, started up, and exclaimed in passionate fierce language, That he would! The assembly, among whom was Abu Thaleb, Ali’s Fat... ... Prophet differ greatly in our loose modern no- tions of them. In some old languages, again, the titles are synonymous; Vates means both Prophet and P...

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...n g e “Ugly!” said the foremost; and though it must have been some strange language, it sounded like English to Lucy. “Is that the way little white gi... ...iciously smelling, whis- 21 Yo n g e pering pine woods that sheltered the Norwegian homestead, past a seater or mountain meadow where the girls were ... ... bald head and long pigtail beat a gong, and capered with a solemn face; a Norwegian herd-boy blew a monstrous bark cow-horn; an Indian juggler twiste...

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...d waistcoat, exposed a large measure of chest to flaws of a wind barbed on Norwegian peaks by the brewers of cough and catarrh—horrid women of the whi... ...hey would have had no weight, they would hardly have seemed an apology for language, beside Victor’s gaze of pleasure in the noble forthroll of the no... ...d to be. ‘Victor speaks of the certainty of his release.’ His release! Her language pricked a satirist’s gallbladder. Colney refrained from speaking t... ...were, of his missing or misapprehended person in a foreign country, of the language of which three unpronounce- able words were knocking about his hea... ...totally other. Thus we are taught, that a foreign General, ignorant of the language, must confine him- self to defensive operations at home; he would ... ... the native bent of the civilized 139 George Meredith man: endow him with language too. He was as if unlocked; he met Nesta’s eyes and ran in a volub...

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...doubt. It was an opportunity for him to talk, and for me to hear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces. The... ... resource, to speak English. Perhaps they would know this almost universal language. I knew it—as well as the German language—well enough to read it f... ... I had. Our visi- tors did not stir. They evidently understood neither the language of England nor of France. Very much embarrassed, after having vain... ... in spite of the elegant terms and good accent of the narrator, the German language had no success. At last, nonplussed, I tried to remember my first ... ...rance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” “There is the disadvantage of not ... ...shed, and trees worn away, “with all the fur rubbed off,” according to the Norwegian phrase! What a situation to be in! We rocked frightfully. The Nau...

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...at us, there ensued a curi- ous exhibition that would be termed, in simple language, writing to the newspapers, for it took the outward form of letter... ...st be individual, distinctive, Nevil Beauchamp’s, though not in his native language. First he tried his letter in French, and lost sight of himself co... ...ended to say. The lady conscientiously did her utmost to reconcile the two languages. She softened his downrightness, passed with approval his complim... ...nd about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back. For, like the frail Norwegian bark on the edge of the maelstrom, liker to a country of conflict... ...gh her brother. His French name rescued him from foreignness. He spoke her language with a piquant accent, unlike the pitiable English. Unlike them, h... ...ow,’ said Nevil, brooding on the fin- ished tone and womanly aplomb of her language. It made him forget that she was a girl entrusted to his guardians...

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...re yester- day morning without accident, and am about to proceed to my home by railway. I am overpowered when I think of you and your hospi- table hom... ...ess, and your sympathy. My dearly beloved friends. I arrived in safety at my house yesterday, and a night’s rest has restored and tranquillised me. I ... ...91 of broken sleep that I made immense quantities of verses on that pedestrian occasion (of course I never make any when I am in my right senses), and... ...ale bard—descended, possibly, from those terrible old Scalds who seem to have existed for the express purpose of addling the brains of mankind when th... ...pored over our books for some hours. I won- der by what ingenuity we brought on that confused state of mind when sense became nonsense, when figures w... ...g the stacks of timber would be a convenient kind of travelling in foreign countries—among the forests of North America, the sodden Honduras swamps, t...

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... the flag they hauled down aboard while we were looking showed her to be a Norwegian. She made an awful lot of smoke; and before it had quite blown aw... ...our up. The girl herself never turned a hair. Falk was a Dane or perhaps a Norwegian, I can’t tell now. At all events he was a Scandinavian of some so... ... like German swear-words. However, as I’ve said, I’m not familiar with the language, and Hermann’s soft, round-eyed countenance remained unchanged. St... ...said “Fferie strantch.” Combined with the bellowing intonation it made the language of one’s childhood sound weirdly startling, and even if considered...

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...ch figure prove their age, but being, 12 Balzac as they are, in the naive language of the fabliaux, it is impos- sible to transcribe them here. These... ...ding-school, the Latin and Greek of seminaries, the literature of the dead languages, and to a very restricted choice of French writers. When, at sixt... ...in her a taste for German and English litera- ture and made her learn both languages while travelling. In Rome, in 1820, Felicite was deserted for an ... ...young countryman, the riches of a new world; he heard, as it were, another language, hitherto unknown to him and sonorous. He listened to the poetic s... ... of my good,” continued Calyste. “She often checks the lively, venturesome language of artists so as not to shake me in a faith which is, though she k... ...hermen were saying that they had seen a little vessel, Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian, in the offing.” This speech brought a flush to the cheeks of the...

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...their own tongue, and had taken up what was then called the Langued’oui, a language between German and Latin, which was the beginning of French. On th... ... palaces!” Richard’s eye kindled, and his words, as he spoke the old Norse language, flowed into the sort of wild verse in which the Sagas or legendar... ...is hand on the old Baron’s shoulder. “Yet, I know not; true thou art, as a Norwegian mountain, but I doubt me if thy brains are not too dull to see th... ...ichard. “She looks cross, and I do not like her.” Luckily he spoke his own language; but his look and air expressed a good deal of what he said, and G... ...he said, and Gerberge looked all the more unattractive. “A thorough little Norwegian bear,” said the King; “fierce and unruly as the rest. Come, and p...

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...neither shabby, nor insolent, nor churlish, nor ignorant. He spoke his own language with perfect propriety, and seemed to con sider himself, in his w... ...nces upon its body, inscribed there, at an unknown time, and in an unknown language; so that their purport was a mystery to all men. There was little ... ...ena, and such a whirl of strife, and blood, and dust going on there, as no language can describe. Its solitude, its awful beauty, and its utter deso ... ...ows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigners, nailed to their faces all the time. They ... ...ars will ever understand. But, in Naples, those five fingers are a copious language. All this, and every other kind of out door life and stir, and mac...

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...n play, in chace, in battle, Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To ... ...e Nan- tucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own spec... ...th some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language—that man makes one in a whole nation’s census—a mighty pageant cre... ...he Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times! And who pronounced our glowing eulog... ... any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Though, to be sure, fr... ...s’ bristles”; a third old gentleman in Hackluyt uses the following elegant language: “There are about two hun- dred and fifty fins growing on each sid...

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... The Sea Wolf JACK LONDON 1904 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Chapter I . . .... ...as shining, his eyes flashing with excitement, as he translated into articulate language the speech of the horns and sirens. “That’s a steam siren a g... ...necessary to state, at least to my friends, that I was shocked. Oaths and vile language of any sort had always been repellent to me. I felt a wilting ... ...ble; but both sides together were bewildering. I had already remarked that his language 32 The Sea Wolf was excellent, marred with an occasional slig... ...ter another pause, “ dreamed that I might some day talk with men who used such language, that I might lift myself out of the place in life in which I ... ...I was born within a hundred miles of that stretch of water. But I was not born Norwegian. I am a Dane. My father and mother were Danes, and how they e...

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...luable paper, ‘Notes on Passages in Shelley,’ contrib- uted to “The Modern Language Review” (October, 1905), Mr. A.C. Bradley discussed, amongst other... ...cts. His conversation was marked by its happy abundance, and the beautiful language in which he clothed his poetic ideas and philosophical notions. To... ...study. He then translated his “Symposium” and his “Ion”; and the En- glish language boasts of no more brilliant composition than Plato’s Praise of Lov... ... the age in which we live. I have sought to enlist the harmony of metrical language, the ethe- real combinations of the fancy, the rapid and subtle tr... ...who have preceded me. I have sought to avoid the imitation of any style of language or versification peculiar to the original minds of which it is the... ...oan Was heard—she trembled like one aspen pale Among the gloomy pines of a Norwegian vale. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. What were his thoughts linked in the morning...

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...blic and private, produced by such change of system. The resolution in the language above quoted was adopted by large majorities in both branches of C... ... to modify it. I may remark that the provision of the Constitution, put in language borrowed from Great Britain, applies only in this coun- try, as I ... ...em it my duty to recommend an appropriation in behalf of the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P . Tordenskiold, which vessel was in May, 1861, pre... ...dy for the differences between the people of the two sections. I did so in language which I cannot improve, and which, therefore, I beg to repeat: “On... ...ertainly do not know that Mr. V allandigham has specifically and by direct language advised against enlist- ments and in favor of desertion and resist...

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...rtillery. At once, with con- temptuous perversity, Mr Vladimir changed the language, and began to speak idiomatic English without the slightest trace ... ...k set well at the back of his yellow bush of hair gave him the aspect of a Norwegian sailor bored with the world after a thundering spree. Mr V erloc ... ...etic voice. But in truth there is a sort of lucidity proper to extravagant language, and the great man was not offended. A 159 Joseph Conrad slight j... ...these appointments, whose note used to be an unbounded trustfulness in the language of sentiment and manly tenderness. The confiding disposition of va...

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...ement of words. The logic that may be found there is only the logic of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people s... ...s gift came out—and it was seen then to be much more than mere felicity of language. His impressionism of phrase went really deeper than the surface. ... ...mply, the heights of in- spired vision. He wrote before the great American language was born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his time. If he ... ...es on Life and Letters tion, will find itself on awakening possessed of no language, a monstrous full-grown child having first to learn the ways of li... ...tion. Industrialism and commercialism—wearing high- sounding names in many languages (welt-politik may serve for one instance) picking up coins behind... ...dy to do their duty by the flag under which they served. The majority were Norwegians, whose courage and straightness of character are matters beyond ... ... two million dollars nailed (or more likely pasted) to the foremast of the Norwegian than I am, who don’t believe that the Storstad is worth two milli... ...ances, a couple of simple and ef- fective cork-fenders—or on board of that Norwegian either? There must have been, since one ship was just out of a do...

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...es they will need to access, if they are to achieve mastery of the written language: their teachers, their handbooks, and their fellow students. In se... ...rimentation, for example: The band’s first use of their sitar in the song “Norwegian Wood” and the Beatles’ first song not about love, “Nowhere Man.” ... ...ired to cite our sources. Within the humanities, we usually use the Modern Language Association’s parenthetical documentation style within the text of... ... words might have been left out. Student writers must be aware that spoken language and written language, especially college level writing, are not th... ...ry to the comfortable notions that she or he has grown up with. Colloquial Language: College writers must learn to control the level of language they ... ...evel of language they use for various writing situations. They must choose language appropriate for their audience and subject matter. Colloquial lang...

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...the Woods HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1854 DjVu Editions Copyright © 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Economy . . . . .... ..., even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meani... ...f youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness Reading 63 of the stre... ...studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what ar... ...servedly as they were written. It is not enough even to be able to speak the language of that nation by which they are written, for there is a memorab... ...r inches in diameter, which had been gnawed by mice the previous winter, — a Norwegian winter for them, for the snow lay long and deep, and they were ...

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...s, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language shapers on other shores, Nations once powerful, now reduced, wit... ...eeping, love looks, love perturbations and risings, The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud, Food, drink, pulse, digestion, swea... ...e, fine headed, nobly form’d, superbly destin’d, on equal terms with me! You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian! You Spaniard of Spain! y... ...or koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality! You dwarf’d Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp! Y... ...phies, manifold, different, distant, Rounded by thee in one—one common orbic language, One common indivisible destiny for All. And by the spells which... ...rest, commonest, readiest, it is ever provoked by them. You may read in many languages, yet read nothing about it, You may read the President’s messag... ...Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way, The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return. The homeward bound and the outward bound, The beautiful...

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... C D is the new pier. A the schooner ashore. B the salmon house. She was a Norwegian: coming in she saw our first gauge- pole, standing at point E. No... ...ea-pieces were all taken from the coast. I tried for long to hit upon some language that might catch ever so faintly the indefinable shifting colour o... ...ch seems to have been something nearer the truth) was announced in a third language quite unknown to me, and probably Russian. To complete the scroll ... ... JANUARY . – The little Russian kid is only two and a half: she speaks six languages. She and her sister (aet. 8) and May Johnstone (aet. 8) are the d... ...aid that the Ala- bama money had not wiped out the injury, I suggested, in language (I remember) of admirable directness and force, that it was a pity... ...s, just at the very juncture when neither the sentiments nor (perhaps) the language had been sufficiently considered. FRIDAY. – You have not yet heard...

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...ndia, and by the Hon. C. Murray from Persia. Many treatises in dif- ferent languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very importa... ...sts con- sider our British red grouse as only a strongly- marked race of a Norwegian species, whereas the greater number rank it as an undoubted speci... ...of another type; but this seems to me only restating the fact in dignified language. He who believes in the struggle for existence and in the prin- ci... ...of veg- etable life. Sir C. Lyell in a striking passage has speculated, in language almost identical with mine, on the effects of great alternations o... ...h while to illustrate this view of clas- sification, by taking the case of languages. If we pos- sessed a perfect pedigree of mankind, a genealogi- ca... ...nt of the races of man would afford the best classification of the various languages now spoken throughout the world; and if all extinct lan- guages, ...

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...e shutters of one of the divisions of the wide high window. “You speak the language so beautifully: might I ask what you are?” Seen from above the gar... ... recognized, and putting the question of speech aside they might have been Norwegians or Spaniards. Miss Bordereau, after all, had been in Europe near...

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...lled now? England itself, and the people English. They spoke much the same language as we do, only more as untaught country people, and they had not s... ...ains. There they have gone on living ever since, and talking their own old language. The English called them Welsh, a name that meant strangers, and w... ...the North, fighting with a runaway brother of his own, who had brought the Norwegians to attack Yorkshire. Harold had just won a great battle over the... ...a prince who had been born in their country—had never spoken a word of any language but theirs. They all came, and the king came down to them with his... ...ately been born in Caernarvon Castle, and, of course, had never spoken any language at all. The Welsh were obliged to accept him; and he had a Welsh n... ... to be taught as well as Latin, and the New Testament was thus read in the language in which the apostles themselves wrote; and that led people to thi...

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...as a very ac- tive lad, fair-haired, freckled, with a touch of the Dane or Norwegian about him. “Can I have my dinner, mother?” he cried, rushing in w... ...iam had written out a letter of application, couched in admirable business language, which Paul copied, with varia- tions. The boy’s handwriting was e... ...htest quiver of her inner- most soul, but something else, speaking another language than hers. How it hurt her, and deadened her very percep- tions. O... ...my duck?” “Inter alia,” he said. “Oh, Lord! are you going to spout foreign languages? What does it mean, Miriam?” There was a fine sarcasm in the last... ... us away.” “Well, I’m sure,” she exclaimed, “they would if they heard your language.” Her face seemed to shine again with joy and peace dur- 257 D.H.... ... Lawrence be instructed, had taught herself French, and could read in that language with a struggle. She considered herself as a woman apart, and part...

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...nearly half a sheet she keeps to the point with an excellent discretion in language then suddenly breaks out: ‘It was fully my intention to have left ... ..., and fine scent of all that seems romantic to a boy, his needless pomp of language, his excellent good sense, his unfeigned, unstained, unwea- ried h... ...in the firelit cellar, placed ‘in casey or straw- worked chairs, after the Norwegian fashion, with arms, and a canopy overhead,’ and given milk in a w... ...t, “who was a very obstreperous man.” I could not bring Mr. Watt to put in language his objections to Miller; all I could get was that, he being your ... ...m. I was, however, determined to have out of these unwilling witnesses the language alluded to. I fixed upon Mr. Stewart as chief; he hedged. My curio...

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...dise Lost by JOHN MILTON 1667 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton: Paradise Lost Table of Contents . . . .... ... in her spotty Globe. His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on NORWEGIAN hills, to be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand,... ...these at thy command To come and play before thee, know’st thou not Thir language and thir wayes, they also know, 1010 And reason not contemptibl... ...ng; at length Not unamaz’d she thus in answer spake. What may this mean? Language of Man pronounc’t By Tongue of Brute, and human sense exprest?... ...sets Upon thir Tongues a various Spirit to rase 945 Quite out thir Native Language, and instead To sow a jangling noise of words unknown: Forth...

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...our father. If it were not that I do not like to be carried away by strong language, I would speak of more than esteem. Through your dear mother I hav... ... his ears were tingling and his brow knit- ted, he could have forgiven the language, if only he could have admitted the argument. He understood every ... ... his half- starved morning condition. His father had spoken in very strong language against racing,—saying that those who went were either fools or ra... ...answer; but that was impossible. She had accused him in the very strongest language of injustice, and had made him understand that if he were unjust t... ...a simple love-letter, and as such need not be given here. In what sweetest language he could find he assured her that even though he should never be a... ...oduced in the drawing-room,—and who had said a few words to her about some Norwegian poet. She turned round to him, and asked him some questions about...