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...n of things often conspired to lead my telling what happened back to an ecstasy of memories of melancholy and through a long, long night. Saudade the Portuguese say, the sadness inside each joy. All my life I have been haunted by a dream of heaven.  It was true. For me, anyway, for the way I told things, and the way I have always told them. I was somewhat absent of myse...

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...t it as they please. I hear some of our sea Yahoos find fault with my sea language, as not proper in many parts, nor now in use. I cannot help it. ... ...erving the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory. T... ... person and habit described. Learned men appointed to teach the author their language. He gains favour by his mild disposition. His pockets are search... ...his majesty’s greatest schol ars should be employed to instruct me in their language; and lastly, that the emperor’s horses, and those of the nobilit... ...xecution; and in about three weeks I made a great progress in learning their language; during which time the emperor frequently honoured me with his v... ...d with an arrow by one of the natives. Is seized and carried by force into a Portuguese ship. The great civilities of the cap tain. The author arrive... ... or a cow should speak in England, or a Yahoo in Houyhnhnmland. The honest Portuguese were equally amazed at my strange dress, and the odd manner of...

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... last, him with the one eye and the patch across the nose. There were some Portuguese, too, and a few Span- iards. The captain was a Portuguese; a lit... ...e in his head. But, no Christian George King was visible. A sort of a wild Portuguese demon, who seemed either fierce- mad or fierce-drunk—but, they a... ...me forward with the black flag, and gave it a wave or two. After that, the Portuguese captain called out in shrill English, “I say you! English fools!... ...d, too, and did such things with it, that there was a cry, in half-a-dozen languages, of “Kill that sergeant!” as I knew, by the cry being raised in E... ...was put up against the wall, the one-eyed English convict came up with the Portuguese Captain, to have a look at me. “See!” says he. “Here’s the deter... ... night, you’d have slept your soundest last night, my determined man.” The Portuguese Captain laughed in a cool way, and with the flat of his cutlass,...

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... my former circumstances, and what condition I was in when taken up by the Portuguese captain; and how much more deplorable the circumstances of the p... ...for I knew what it was to be set on shore in a strange country; and if the Portuguese captain that took me up at sea had served me so, and taken all I... ...een at Barbary, the mere being sold to a Mahometan excepted; and perhaps a Portuguese is not a much better master than a T urk, if not in some cases m... ...of its being me that was come, till I spoke to him. “Seignior,” said I, in Portuguese, “do you 29 Daniel Defoe not know me?” At which he spoke not a ... ...neeled down and cried, “Oa, Oa, W aramokoa,” and some other words of their language, which none of the others understood anything of; but as they made... ... he went on board, in order to sail to the Madeiras; but the master of the Portuguese ship being but an indiffer- ent mariner, had been out of his rec... ...ccess to these poor people, seeing he did not understand one word of their language, nor they one of his. T o remove this difficulty, I told him Frida... ...th a sash round it, he did not look very unlike a minister; and as for his language, I was his interpreter. But the serious- ness of his behaviour to ... ...ing, I made Friday go out upon the deck, and call out aloud to them in his language, to know what they meant. Whether they understood him or not, that...

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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... ...ch formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or the Mississippi. The Missi... ...resemblance has been found to exist between the physical conformation, the language, and the habits of the Indians of North America, and those of the ... ...reat colonies which were founded in South America by the Spaniards and the Portuguese have since become em- pires. Civil war and oppression now lay wa... ...constitute flourishing and enlightened nations. But when the Spaniards and Portuguese of South America begin to feel the wants common to all civilized... ...ers, the English, occupy with regard to the Ital- ians, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and all those nations of Europe which receive their articles of...

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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... ...-presence of malice in the agent; but others, as appeared from my father’s Portuguese recollections, ascribing the same horrid power to the eye of cer... ...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...

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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... ... 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... ...puzzled look, like a foreigner trying to catch the mean- ing of words in a language which he does not understand. “Corn? …” he said, turning to Vautri... ...f in con- nection with that of one of the most wealthy and distin- guished Portuguese nobles, the Marquis d’Ajuda-Pinto. It was one of those innocent ... ...Beauseant, like a well-bred man of the world, always left his wife and the Portuguese as soon as he had installed them. But M. d’Ajuda-Pinto must marr... ...now, though the bans were about to be published, and although the handsome Portuguese had come that day to break the news to the Vicomtesse, he had no... ...in the way, M. d’Ajuda hailed his coming with relief. “Good-bye,” said the Portuguese, hurrying to the door, as Eu- gene made his entrance into a dain... ... his faculties. “Why not?” the Vicomtesse was saying, as she smiled at the Portuguese. “Why cannot you come to the Italiens?” “Affairs! I am to dine w...

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...ngland; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the language of their several churches and law 5 Thomas de Quincey courts. The... ...en warned of the patron’s appointment, and having ‘received’ (in technical language) the presentee—that is, hav- ing formally recognised him in that c... ...onal Society, or Provincial Societies,) of translating the Scriptures into languages scarcely known by name to scholars, of converting Jews, of organi... ...assive resis- tance; and resistance to bad government would become, in his language, the most sacred of duties. In any argument with such a man, he wo... ...ights of property. But since the defeat of this faction by the law courts, language seems to fail them, for the expression of their hatred and affecte... ...at is wanted to set me free.’ I will venture to say that Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese liar, that Sir John Mandeville, the traveller, that Baron Muncha...

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...rous, and picturesque as the United States of America. All times, races, and languages have brought their contribu- tion. Pekin is in the same State w... ...derstanding, and sprang 14 Across the Plains from my unfamiliarity with the language. For although two nations use the same words and read the same b... ... hamlets round Pekin; re- 33 Robert Louis Stevenson ligions so old that our language looks a halfing boy along- side; philosophy so wise that our bes... ...ed would descend to wear the vile dress hat of civilisation. Spanish was the language of the streets. It was difficult to get along without a word or ... ... of the streets. It was difficult to get along without a word or two of that language for an occasion. The only com- munications in which the populati... ...ant at Monterey, we have sat down to table day after day, a French- man, two Portuguese, an Italian, a Mexican, and a Scotchman: we had for common vis...

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... to communicate to fireside travellers some sense of its seduction, and to describe the life, at sea and ashore, of many hundred thousand persons, som... ...ed by Caesar, and never been ruled by the wisdom of Gaius or Papinian. By 8 In The South Seas the same step I had journeyed forth out of that comfort... ...our intimates, and one, at least, was to mourn sincerely our departure. CHAPTER II—MAKING FRIENDS THE IMPEDIMENT OF TONGUES was one that I particularl... ... acquittal, and declared she would engage the prisoner to be her children’s nurse. The bystanders exclaimed at the proposal; the woman was a savage, s... ...population could be isolated, and this mispronunciation should become the rule, it might prove the first stage of transition from T to K, which is the... ...pposite island of Tauata slew, and carried home and ate, and were there- upon accounted mighty men of valour. Of one such exploit I can give the accou...

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...on for holding to the former understanding; but the loud clamours and rude language of Lady Whitburn were enough to set any one in opposition to her, ... ...p cup, like discourteous rogues as they be,” said Margaret, in no measured language. “And are they gone? And wherefore?” asked Grisell. “Wherefore? bu... ...lained their host, “and she knows no tongue save her own, and the unspoken language of courtesy, but she is rejoiced to welcome the demoiselle. Ah, sh... ... to his wife, and making rapid signs with face and fingers in their mutual language, but Grisell burst in - “Good for her,” cried she. “Can it be good... ...ong the stoutly-built Netherlanders and the English traders. Shouts in all languages were heard, and Grisell looked round in wonder and bewilderment a... ...isell afterwards learnt, this was Isabel de Souza, Countess of Poitiers, a Portuguese lady who had come over with her Infanta; and whose daughter prod... .... Nor did Grisell conceal her home; but Whitburn was an impossible word to Portuguese lips, and Dacre they pronounced after its crusading deriva- tion...

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...wn wrongs by whispering incitements to invasion. ‘All people, nations, and languages,’ was the commencement of the decrees of that monarch’s court; an... ...elling to the south of them, and almost exactly resem- bling themselves in language, habits, government, and fash- ions of fighting. Indeed the city o... ...ry angry at the compassion shown by the crowd, and after frightfully harsh language commanded that Gertrude should be dragged away; but one of the nob... ...hat the word hos- pitium, which in Latin only means an inn, has, in modern languages, given birth, on the one hand, to hotel, or lodging house, on the... ...tons and cities of the little republic of Switzerland. Of differing races, languages, and, latterly, even religions— unlike in habits, tastes, opinion... ...ry of T angier; but in 1473, two sons of Muley being made prisoners by the Portuguese, 145 Yo n g e one was ransomed for the body of Dom Fernando, wh... ... the throne. Universal honor attended the name of the Constant Prince, the Portuguese Regulus; and seldom as the Spanish admire anything Portuguese, a... ...red on the pavement, and in the midst was a fire, probably lighted by some Portuguese soldiers. Forth- with Captain Jones and the sergeant entered the...

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...upon the old lawyer. He felt that he could not storm and talk in ambiguous language of what a ‘gentleman’ would or would not do. He might disapprove o... ...s my feeling.’ ‘My father was certainly not an English gentleman. He was a Portuguese.’ In admitting this, and subjecting himself at once to one clear... ...r- tain advantage. He could not get over the fact that he was the son of a Portuguese parent, but by admitting that openly he thought he might avoid p... ...d not wish to welcome him as a son-in-law. He thought it possible that the Portuguese father might be a Portuguese nobleman, and therefore one whom he... ...hony Trollope ‘till I was sent to a German university in the idea that the languages of the Continent are not generally well learned in this country;—... ...ns, one of the oldest families in England, should be given to a friendless Portuguese, a probable Jew,—about whom nobody knew nothing. Then he remembe... ... dare say. I remember a waiter in a hotel in Holborn who could speak seven languages. It’s an accomplishment very necessary for a Courier or Queen’s M... ...hat by doing so he would abandon his right to object to the man as being a Portuguese stranger, and he did not wish to have Ferdinand Lopez as son-in-... ... applications which were quite useless, and which by the acerbity of their language altogether shut Mrs Roby from the good things which might have acc...

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...effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. ... ...oughly satisfactory translation of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly 4 Don Quixote u... ... translations of “Don Quixote” is instructive. Shelton’s, the first in any language, was made, appar- ently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. ... ...n Quixote” “made English,” he says, “according to the humour of our modern language.” His “Quixote” is not so much a translation as a travesty, and a ... ...es. For this reason, I think, any temptation to use antiquated or obsolete language should be resisted. It is after all an affectation, and one for wh... ...amous poet Garcilasso, the other by the most excellent Camoens, in its own Portuguese tongue, but we have not as yet acted them. Yesterday was the fir...

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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... ... his father had placed near him, and who never addressed him except in the language of Virgil and Cicero. The study of Greek took precedence. At six y... ...ets on his right side, and a lion at his feet, all which signifies, in the language of funeral emblems, that the departed has been engaged in some imp... ...on of an extreme revenge; as will appear by this: that having observed the Portuguese, who were in league with their enemies, to inflict another sort ... ...rity, even to this day, which is a hundred years 329 Montaigne since, few Portuguese can yet rely; though custom and length of time are much more pow...

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...egun to act as interpreter to English schools in the portico of the French language; and under his guidance it was asked, in contempt of the answer, C... ...shoulder his hand was laid some- times as they strolled and chatted in two languages. He re- ally went a long way to make French fellows popular, and ... ..., French, English, Ameri- cans, Italians, if they will come; Spaniards and Portuguese, and Scandinavians, Russians as well. And Jews; Mahommedans too,... ...y had not been destroyed be- cause they had, or seemed to her to have, the language of passion. She could read them unmoved, and appease a wicked crav... ... craving she owned to having, and reproached herself with having, for that language. Was she not colour in the sight of men? Here was one, a mouthpiec... ..., and ask impressions to tell our deepest instinct of truthfulness whether language of this char- acter can have been written to two women by one hand...

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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 ... ...s nearer or taking us farther from the coast. But no; the Nautilus kept in Portuguese waters. I must therefore take my part and prepare for flight. My...

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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... ...se family is not as old as yours), after marrying his eldest daughter to a Portuguese grandee, was anxious to find an alliance among the higher nobili... ... his mind led me too far. But how could I help it? I love, and I am half a Portuguese,—for I am much more like you, mamma, than like my father. Calyst... ...hood. She is a Grandlieu, to be sure, but she’s as brown as her mother the Portuguese, not to say yellow, and as dry and stiff as her father. To tell ... ... duchess, an excellent mother, though her piety was becoming more and more Portuguese, recognized a moral cause in the physically weak condition in wh... ...uld do one great good by another almost as great—” The vicar looked at the Portuguese lady, and was pensive. “That is evidently an idea that came to y...

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... emotional symbolism of the stage. It becomes at last a mere deaf-and-dumb language to them, which they read intelli- gently pari passu with the heari... ...ried’s age is seven-and- twenty. He is, by virtue of his heritage of three languages, Modern Languages Master in a small private school in the south o... ...of England. T o the casual observer he is singularly like any other Modern Languages Master in any other small pri- vate school. His costume is neithe... ...theory will assure the reader of its truth. T o put the thing in technical language, the curious inversion of Plattner’s right and left sides is proof... ... Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, stood in the warmth of the sunrise watching the setting of this... ... a Creole, his conceptions of etiquette and disci- pline were pure-blooded Portuguese, and it was only to Holroyd, the Lancashire engineer who had com... ...sh was a negro stoker, who had them all wrong. The second in command was a Portuguese, da Cunha, who spoke French, but it was a different sort of Fren... ...g they became. Gerilleau abandoned his old themes almost suddenly, and the Portuguese lieutenant became a conversational figure; he knew something abo... ...yd. “I have commanded you to go aboard,” he screamed to his subordinate in Portuguese. “If you do not go aboard forthwith it is mutiny—rank mutiny. Mu...

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...d which will be either the worst or the best that has been composed in our language, I mean of those intended for entertainment; at which I repent of ... ...and he talked to them about himself very naturally and in very well-chosen language. In the course of their conversation they fell to discussing what ... ...ion wrote to the Archbishop, entreating him earnestly, and in very correct language, to have him released from the misery in which he was living; for ... ..., “according to the maxim quando caput dolet, &c.” “I don’t understand any language but my own,” said Sancho. “I mean to say,” said Don Quixote, “that... ...eing printed at Antwerp, and I am persuaded there will not be a country or language in which there will not be a translation of it.” “One of the thing... ...amous poet Garcilasso, the other by the most excellent Camoens, in its own Portuguese tongue, but we have not as yet acted them. Yesterday was the fir...