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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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...tenant who acted as his translator—for the chief’s knowledge of the French language, obtained during several years’ heroic service, con- sisted for th... ...lways a gendarme. He had seen service among the Arabs. He had always liked languages and had picked up Arabian with great ease—of this he was very pro... ...er to learn than French, and would not be moved. Now what was the American language like? I explained that it was a sort of Argot-English. When I gave... ...f his torment; the big mouth of night carefully spurted the angular actual language of his martyred body. I had seen him before in the dream of some m... ...lked distinct and absolutely perfect English. His name was Fritz. He was a Norwegian, a stoker on a ship. “You mustn’t mind that feller that wanted yo... ...ir. B. suddenly realized that he had no gift for The Zulu; he asked a fine Norwegian to whom he had given his leather belt if he, the Norwegian, would... ... it back, because there was a very dear friend who had been forgotten. The Norwegian, with a pleasant smile, took off the belt and said “Certainly” … ... ...o was to consult the belt; The Young Pole translated; The Zulu nodded; The Norwegian smiled appreciatively; The Zulu received the belt with a ges- tur... ...given his ambulance tunic, and who was crazy-proud in consequence) and the Norwegian and the W ashing Machine Man and The Hat and many of les hommes w...

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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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...old 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 ... ...e 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 liberty, ... ... 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 a... ... he might add from Sir Francis Bacon, THAT SUCH AUTHORIZED BOOKS ARE BUT THE LANGUAGE OF THE TIMES. For though a licenser should happen to be judi ci... ...the Hercynian wilderness, not their youth, but their staid men, to learn our language and our theologic arts. Yet that which is above all this, the fa...

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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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...n life. So, for instance, in our time there is the knowl- edge of the dead languages and the occult sciences; of cor- rect spelling; of syntax and pro... ...te. But it is, on other grounds, worth noting that the term “waste” in the language of everyday life implies deprecation of what is characterized as w... ...s with which the discharge seeks a given direction. That is to say, in the language of current economic theory, while men are reluctant to retrench th... ... is gifted with even a moderate share of feroc- ity. The exigencies of the language make it impossible to avoid an apparent implication of disapproval... ...n from the slavery of man’ and so on, is, to use the chaste and expressive language of Elizabeth Cady Stanton inversely, ‘utter rot.’ The social relat... ...stance, as a typical case, even so late as the middle of this century, the Norwegian peasants have instinctively formulated their sense of the superio...

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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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...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 meaning... ...youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perp... ...ies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in what ever language they may be written and however an cient they may be. For what ar... ...edly as they were writ ten. It is not enough even to be able to speak the language of that nation by which they are written, for there is a memorable... ...tten, for there is a memorable interval between the spoken and the written language, the language heard and the lan guage read. The one is commonly t... ...r inches in diameter, which had been gnawed by mice the previous winter na Norwegian winter for them, for the snow lay long and deep, and they were ob...

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...“My dear sister,” said she, on the thousand-and-second night, (I quote the language of the “Isitsoornot” at this point, verba- tim) “my dear sister,” ... ...arsh, and disagreeable accents, that, perhaps, we should have mistaken for language, had they not come altogether through the nose. “‘Being thus evide... ... of teaching me the rudiments of what it was vain enough to denominate its language; so that, at length, I was enabled to converse with it readily, an... ... the Cock- neighs (so the man-animals were called; I presume because their language formed the connecting link between that of the horse and that of t... ...e king, again; but Scheherazade, paying him no attention, continued in the language of Sinbad. “‘Passing beyond this last island, we reached a country... ...ocks. “The island in the distance,” resumed the old man, “is called by the Norwegians Vurrgh. The one midway is Moskoe. That a mile to the northward i... ...eat whirlpool of the Maelström.” “So it is sometimes termed,” said he. “We Norwegians call it the Moskoe-ström, from the island of Moskoe in the mid- ... ...hough it was the view almost universally entertained of the subject by the Norwegians, it nevertheless was not his own. As to the former notion he con...

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...ediate forerunner, Charles Lever, whilst they confidently derive me from a Norwegian author of whose language I do not know three words, and of whom I... ... Lever, whilst they confidently derive me from a Norwegian author of whose language I do not know three words, and of whom I knew nothing until years ...

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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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... newspapers and he was always reading them. For he wanted to teach himself Norwegian, he said. Ellida. Well, and then? Lyngstrand. It was one evening ... ...think—he said it in perfect Norwe- gian. That man must have learnt foreign languages very easily— Ellida. And what then? What else happened? Lyngstran...

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...he was going to kill him. They were going to kill everybody who spoke that language, he and all the men whose feet he could hear tramping on the drill... ...ry as a thrasher.” “So am I,” said Andrews. “Say, Andy, you kin talk their language a li’l’, can’t ye?” Andrews nodded his head vaguely. “Well, maybe ... ... drink with a frog than with an American.” “Reckon he wants to learn their language,” said Small. “He won’t never come to much in this army, that’s wh... ...inst his back. He walked with his eyes to the ground. A voice in a strange language stopped him. A ragged man in green with a beard that was clotted w... ...That was the life to make a feller feel fit. I was goin’ around with a big Norwegian named Olaf, who was the stron- gest man I ever knew. An’ drink! H... ...could parlay French real well. I want you to teach me. A guy’s got to know languages to get along in this country.” “But you must know some.” “Bedroom...

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...us- sian!” They did not strike me in that way. Just as Ibsen’s in- tensely Norwegian plays exactly fitted every middle and pro- fessional class suburb... ...children, and burnt and wrecked dwellings, excuse a good deal of vio- lent language, and produce a wrath on which many suns go down before it is appea... ...lence, and declaring that no English child should ever again be taught the language of Luther and Goethe, were kept in countenance by the most impu- d... ...us life; but what does it end in? Respectability. A ladylike daughter. The language and appearance of a city missionary. Let it be a warning to all of...

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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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... rhythm in his deliberate choice of terms, al- ways chose sound, wholesome language, with a 15 Selected Writings constant care for technical beauty. ... ...nion, that of all T aine’s pupils Maupassant had the greatest com- mand of language and the most finished and inci- sive style. Robust in imagination ... ...ilthy jokes, which were made still more brutal by their igno- rance of the language. They got up, one after the other, trying to say something witty, ... ... traditions, their usages, their food, the local expressions, the peculiar language of the peasants, the smell of the soil, the hamlets, and to the at... ... face, both with white hair, who talk incessantly, quarreling in a strange language, and then suddenly cease talking in order to bleat with all their ... ... there on Saturday, when I got into ‘Delila,’ with my wife. ‘Delila’ is my Norwegian boat, which I had built by Fourmaise, and which is light and safe...

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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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...ains 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, H... ...all these at thy command To come and play before thee, know’st thou not Thir language and thir wayes, they also know, And reason not contemptibly; wit... ...eling; 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? T... ...rision sets Upon thir Tongues a various Spirit to rase Quite out thir Native Language, and instead To sow a jangling noise of words unknown: Forthwith...

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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...