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... will see what the next three weeks will produce.’ Poor little fellow! his language is so strong that it is almost a surprise to find that he was repr... ...and partly from the development of his genius for philology . Aptitude for language had already shown itself when his sister Fanny had given him some ... ...on spoke German fluently, and wrote German cor- rectly. He had studied the language assiduously for about two years previously, and so successfully th... ... last I know nothing whatever, and of Chaldee only so much as that it is a dialect of Hebrew in the same character, and consequently anyone who knows ... ...; which is besides broken into such an extraordi- nary number of different dialects, varying from one village to another in an island not twenty miles... ...old some sort of converse with the people, though theirs was quite another dialect. They were gaily decked out with armlets, frontlets, bracelets, and... ...ty. I don’t want to be exclusive, far from it. I don’t want to be Anglican versus Primitive; but yet somehow, to me, there is a some- thing which belo...

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...s opponents, until he loses sight of the end of his exertions, and holds a language which disguises his real sen- timents or secret instincts. Hence a... ... a man finds that almost as many difficulties spring from inconsistency of language as usually arise from inconsistency of conduct. I conclude by poin... ...s -Wandering T ribes of Natives – Their out- ward appearance, manners, and language – T races of an un- known people. Exterior Form Of North America N... ...es on the steps of the tribunal, and sim- ply says, “The State of New York versus the State of Ohio,” it is impossible not to feel that the Court whic... ... jargon, which is hardly less remote from pure language than is the coarse dialect of the people. Such are the natural perils of literature amongst ar... ... whence everyone chooses pretty nearly at random. Almost all the different dialects which divided the idioms of European nations are manifestly declin... ... the same stock. Each tribe of the American con- tinent speaks a different dialect; but the number of languages, properly so called, is very small, a ...

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...stic impediments to intercourse. The whole world will surely have a common language, that is quite elementarily Utopian, and since we are free of the ... ... are free of the trammels of convincing story-telling, we may suppose that language to be sufficiently our own to understand. Indeed, should we be in ... ...in Utopia at all, if we could not talk to every- one? That accursed bar of language, that hostile inscription in the foreigner’s eyes, “deaf and dumb ... ...p, and neither her “people” nor his—he speaks that detestable middle-class dialect in which aunts and things with money and the right of intervention ... ...time and kind by taking up the question as one of “Man 24 A Modern Utopia versus the State,” and discussing the compromise of Liberty. The idea of in... ... There was, and there remains to this day, a pro- found disregard of local dialect and race in the Roman Catho- lic tradition, which has made that Chu... ...ings that will strike you as crude, for a certain difference of accent and dialect that you may not like, and you must be prepared too to hear what ma...

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...any of the arts to succeed, where her model failed her. In fact, the Latin language sinks under the very idea of murder. “The man was murdered;”— how ... ... classic conceptions never as- cended to. Murdratus est, says the sublimer dialect of Gothic ages. Meantime, the Jewish, school of murder kept alive w... ...le matter in his presence, as not supposing that he un- derstood any other language than that in which he conversed with his servant; and the amount o... ... that these cravens had never looked for, and addressing them in their own language, threatened to run them through on the spot if they dared to offer... ...nerally such a person is “rather yellow, rather yellow,” [to quote Canning versus Lord Durham:] that is the 148 chief fault with his physics; but, as... ...amp, recon- cile yourself, tyro, to a new fashion of meal, to what in camp dialect we call prandium.” This “prandium,” this essentially military meal,...

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...nners and laws casts a nec- essary colouring; but the bearings, to use the language of her- 10 Waverley aldry, remain the same, though the tincture m... ...ical scholar, but reasonably skilled in science, and master of most modern languages. He was, however, old and indulgent, and the recurring interregnu... ..., received a rapid answer, in which, from the haste and peculiarity of the dialect, the word ‘butler’ was alone intelli- 54 Waverley gible. Waverley ... ...me, but not the ease or manner of its inhabitants. The truth was, that his language and habits were as heterogeneous as his external appearance. Owing... ...ften obeyed. He could hear, too, the well- known word given in the English dialect, by the equally well- distinguished voice of the commanding-officer... ...d indeed he pointed out the case in Dirleton’s Doubts and Queries, Grippit versus Spicer, anent the eviction of an estate ob non solutum canonem, that... ...be these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners, and feelings; so as in some distant ...

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...he does not yet know him,—that miserable differ- ences of mere costume and dialect still divide him, what- soever is worthy, catholic and perennial in... ...t literatures. But he freely read in Greek and Latin, as in various modern languages; and in all fields, in the classical as well, his lively faculty ... ...ardently, if fitfully, continued to the end: but the methods, the tone and dialect and all outer conditions of uttering it, underwent most important m... ... your peril do not try believing that. No subtlest hocus-pocus of “reason” versus “understanding” will avail for that feat;— and it is terribly perilo... ...the first en- joyed a superior reception in England. Possessing not only a language to speak, which few of the others did, but manifold experiences co... ...he playful and fanciful on the surface, there is in reality neither in the language (which is aus- terely determined to its end), nor in the method an... ...en, on the other side, about Pantheism and such like;—all in the Coleridge dialect, and with eloquence and volubility to all lengths. I remember his i...

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...st taste. The first room exhales an odor for which there is no name in the language, and which should be called the odeur de pension. The damp atmosph... ...le is gratified. His cupboards (ormoires, as he called them in the popular dialect) were filled with a quantity of plate that he brought with him. The... ... man who went on ‘Change and dabbled (to use the sufficiently expres- sive language of the Stock Exchange) in stocks and shares after he had ruined hi... ... ins and outs of the labyrinth of Paris. To know its customs; to learn the language, and be- come familiar with the amusements of the capital, he must... ...e a full account of his own deposition in the case of the Sieur Ragoulleau versus Dame Morin, when he had been sum- moned as a witness for the defence...

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...eached the hips. Within ten years England has made two little gifts to our language. The Incroyable, the Merveilleux, the Elegant, the three successes... ..., which she withdrew. “You are cold and ceremonious; what, in collo- quial language, we should call short.” “It is true,” she replied with a smile. “I... ... by side. The Italian and Tito talked with such extreme rapidity, and in a dialect unfamiliar to a man who hardly knew even the Italian of books, that... ...f the revo- lution. Rodolphe had not yet learned that, besides five living languages, Francesca knew Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. The charming creature p... ...e for the Chapter against the town can cer- tainly win that of W atteville versus Riceys! Besides,” she added, “les Rouxey will some day be mine—not f...

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...letters and a moralist; how the Essays would be read, in all the principal languages of Europe, by millions of intel- ligent human beings, who never h... ...e fame. A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is al- ways everywhere the same. The text of thes... ...h Montaigne’s translators seems to have been a propensity for reducing his language and phrase- ology to the language and phraseology of the age and c... ... and since it is thought that hereabout nothing can be produced in our own dialect but what is barbarous and unpolished, it falls to you, who, besides... ...ure, it is recorded by the ancients— [Pliny, ‘ut supra’]—that Diodorus the dialectician died upon the spot, out of an extreme passion of shame, for no... ...at short time in necessary instruction. Away with the thorny subtleties of dialectics; they are abuses, things by which our lives can never be amended... ...s a good poet, but an ill rhymer. “Emunctae naris, durus componere versus.” [“Of delicate humour, but of rugged versification.”—Horace, Sat, i...

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...r of the metropolis, the smoke of the city’s chimneys, if you prefer plain language. At a first inspection of the house, Lady Dunstane did not like it... ..., and it was advertized to be let, and the auctioneer proclaimed it in his dialect. Her taste was delicate; she had the sensitiveness of an invalid: t... ...ished the composition she perused it, and did not recognize herself in her language, though she had been so guarded to cover the wound her T ony dealt... ...narrower limitation had it been de- fined, stood no chance with him. T ory versus Whig, he tried a wrestle, and was thrown. They agreed on the topic o... ...at the Mrs. 153 George Meredith W arwick of that scandal case of W arwick versus Dannisburgh was old Dan Merion’s girl—and his only child? It is true... ...ended. And he despatched an emissary to her?— The theme, one may, in their language, ‘fear,’ was relished as a sugared acid. It was renewed in the lat... ...women of the world, Lady Wathin in departing was indignant at the tone and dialect of a younger woman not modestly concealing her possession of the la...

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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... ... and would have given him anything— the last word in favour of the Country versus the royal Mar- tyr, for example, had he insisted on it. She gathered... ...g as anything ever heard down the Canalaggio. The representatives of these dialects trotted the decks and hung their bodies half over the sides of the... ...in ad- vance. This very common condition of the silent-stricken, unused in dialectics, heightened Rosamund’s disgust by caus- ing her to suppose that ... ...n her ear had pounced on his repetition of cer- tain words that betrayed a dialectical stiffness and hinted a narrow vocabulary: his use of emphasis, ...

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...urned, with various articles of plunder, and talked over their exploits in language which made the farmer tremble. They were not long in discovering t... ...older of a mortgage was then called), entered upon possession, and, in the language of Hotspur, “came me cranking in,” and cut 25 Sir Walter Scott th... ... the faith of 37 Sir Walter Scott reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names. And to yon ... ... the conversa- tion, rendering it thus, even to each other, a dark obscure dialect, eked out by significant nods and signs, but never expressing disti... ...ld case which has occurred on that coast before now—the case of Smug- gler versus Exciseman.” “What then is your conjecture concerning the fate of the...

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..., he was known to carry in his pocket small volumes of poetry in a foreign language. All this was going too far. Henry Thompson was the ex- treme of i... ...reading a lot of greasy books and he’s always spieling about the ‘value of languages, ’ and the poor soak doesn’t make but eighteen hundred a year, an... ... WE TEACH YOU I How to address your lodge. How to give toasts. How to tell dialect stories. How to propose to a lady. How to entertain banquets. How t... ...u are not absolutely satisfied. There were eight simple les- sons in plain language anybody could understand, and I studied them just a few hours a ni... ... Ireland, unemployment, naval aviation, the rate of exchange, tea-drinking versus whisky-drinking, the psy- chology of American women, and daily life ...

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...nst her little dimpled chin, was to lose all presence of mind and power of language in a feeble ecstasy. I wonder I didn t say, Kill me, if you have ... ...d writing and reading, was about equal in difficulty to the mastery of six languages; and that it might perhaps be attained, by dint of perseverance, ... ... mind to a profession so adapted to his fertile resources, and his flow of language, must distin- guish himself. Now, for example, Mr. Traddles, said... ...fur her wheer she can fisherate for herself. (A Beein signifies, in that dialect, a home, and to fisherate is to provide.) Fur which purpose, said... ...low confidential tone, after I had delivered my argument in doedem. Jipes versus Wigziell, which did me great service with the profession, I went dow...

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...lothes and when not to, it’s Larry Lefferts.” And on the question of pumps versus patent-leather “Oxfords” his authority had never been disputed. “My ... ...ility, proffered to Newland low-voiced congratulations couched in the same language as his wife’s, and seated himself in one of the brocade armchairs ... ...opped. He knew that the southern races communicated with each other in the language of pantomime, and was mortified to find her shrugs and smiles so u... ...voice to ask: “What sort of a need?” “Ah, don’t ask me! I don’t speak your language,” she re- torted petulantly. The answer smote him like a blow, and... ... in some respects this was true. But Beaufort understood every turn of her dialect, and spoke it fluently: his view of life, his tone, his attitude, w...

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... tone of manliness that he entreated her to reassure him; he womanized his language. She had to say: “I am afraid I can not undertake to make it an ap... ...andsome a cavalier as the world could show, and the contrast of his recent language and his fine figure was a riddle that froze her blood. Speech so f... ...rs, unnatural in tone, unmanlike even for a lover (who is allowed a softer dialect), set her vainly sound- ing for the source and drift of it. She was... ... The strain he adopted was quite natural to his passion and his theme. The language of the primitive senti- ments of men is of the same expression at ... ...hey chatted like a couple unexpectedly discovering in one another a common dialect among strangers. Can there be an end to it when those two meet? The... ...n’s tongue he asinates’; signifying that he excels any man of us at donkey-dialect.” After a decent interval for the genius of criticism to seem to ha... ...n sense.” “And you call that not serious?” “I take Hermann’s praise of the versus dochmiachus to be not only serious but unexaggerated,” said Vernon. ...