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...show patches of talent but also a cru- dity of thought and unsteadiness of language. No one reading these novels was likely to suppose that its author... ...arration. What Anderson employs here is a stylized version of the American language, sometimes rising to quite formal rhetorical patterns and sometime...

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...ras are very few; whilst on the other hand, they are mainly couched in the language of self-communion, of aspirations after truth, and of mental strug... ...of Muhammad, the less reason do we find to justify the strong vituperative language poured out upon his head by Maracci, Prideaux, and others, in rece... ...the two mountains, beneath which he found a people who scarce understood a language. They said, “O Dhoulkarnain! verily , Gog and Magog 18 waste this... ...of death have fallen! But better in them would be obedience and becom- ing language. And if, when the command for war is issued, they are true to God,... ...ty sprung up for ever, until ye believe in God alone.” Yet imitate not the language of Abraham to his Father, “I will pray for thy forgiveness, but no... ...gruben des Orients, i. 288. The T almudists, however, use very exaggerated language concern- ing him. Thus, Sanhedrin, 21, 22. “Ezra would have been f...

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...nd table, covered with recent numbers of reviews and journals in different languages, ranged like the rays of a star round the lamp. On the writing ta...

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... poverty in the extreme, and poverty modified, or, to use his own emphatic language, ‘between nothing to eat and just half enough.’ He is not, as he f... ...hich would rival Babel, but for the cir- cumstance of its being all in one language. The ‘hear, hear,’ which occasioned that laugh, pro- ceeded from o... ...ight trousers of unprecedented pat- terns, and coats for which the English language has yet no name—a kind of cross between a great-coat and a surtout... ... so gentlemanly!’ ‘So clever!’ said Miss Marianne. ‘And has such a flow of language!’ added Miss Teresa. ‘He has a great respect for you, my dear,’ sa... ...tt. No delay; for life and death depend upon your promptitude.” Passionate language, certainly. Shall I see him?’ ‘Do, ’ replied Miss Julia; ‘and entr...

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...aws cannot particularly speak to, as it is impossible for them, in general language, to explain themselves upon everything that may arise: but what th... ... who prefer a kingly govern- ment think that laws can only speak a general language, but cannot adapt themselves to particular circumstances; for whic...

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...ve crossed the Channel. 9 Shaw My masters were the masters of a universal language: they were, to go from summit to summit, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Moza...

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...Saxon. Nor, indeed, was there any very pronounced dialect, like a separate language. The speech is slow, and with a tendency to make o like aa, as Tit...

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...one and partly to Edward’s own peculiar aversion from anything like coarse language or gross stories. At Sandhurst he had just kept out of the way of ...

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...remendous racket at the other end of the ship, and much and excited sailor language, such as “damn your eyes,” etc. In a moment or two the captain, wh... ...s strongly as in their other characteristics. General Scott was precise in language, cultivated a style pe- culiarly his own; was proud of his rhetori... ... it. The latter immediately took the man by the shoulder and asked him, in language more forcible than polite, what he was doing there. The man proved... ...s, and should be the best of 592 Personal Memoirs friends. They speak one language, and are related by blood and other ties. We together, or even eit...

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...was incessant, and those who were loudest and most persistent in this foul language were the old men who were so near their end. And the girls and chi...

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...aterials? The German critic unhesitatingly answers, “from Homer.” As regards language, versification, and general spirit, the matter is beyond contro ...

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..., “because I have a detestation for all the French, and the same for their language which I cannot sup- port to hear spoken…. We in Moscow are elated ...

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...d their hotel. “Ah, my dear Gordon,” said Bernard, “we speak a differ- ent language. If you don’t want to be fascinated, what is one to say to you? ‘O...

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...y, among the flower-clad Alps, he had asked her again in bald, traditional language. She reminded him of a 86 A Room with a View Leonardo more than e...

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...new unprofitable tongue. One might fancy a ser- aph, vexed with our normal language, who touches the pious to blasphemy, the blasphemous to piety. The...

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... recognized her as the woman who had assaulted the Governor with frightful language as he passed by the window of her prison; they knew, also, that sh...

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...und Like a dumb beast in a show. Neither know what I am Nor where I go, My language beaten Into one name; I am in love And that is my shame. What hurt...

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...han the limbs of fleas; And every square of text an awful charm, Writ in a language that has long gone by. So long, that mountains have arisen since W...

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...on be the same; But let the Latins still retain their name, Speak the same language which they spoke before, Wear the same habits which their grandsir...

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...he article?” Your speaking countenance,’ said W egg, ‘puts it plainer than language. Now , you can’t read in my face what answer I give?’ ‘No, I can’t...

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...ses, the letter-files so old that they had grown beards (in ecclesiastical language), the red tape dangling limp and dejected, the pasteboard boxes co...