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...vulets of blood. He stared at her in bewilderment. She laughed huskily and speaking in the native language of the bazaars, invited him to make love ... ... his daughter’s education and by the time she was fifteen, Helen could speak French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Her interest in science and ma... ...Bombay. Helen recalled its strange history. This city in 1661 had formed part of the dowry of the Portuguese Princess, Catherine of Braganza, on her... ...ey, cantered up to John MacGregor, who addressed him in Urdu. John had taught Helen some of this language on their long sea voyage and she understoo... ...herself aloud. Isabel was half Indian. She had told her last night that her birthplace was Goa, a Portuguese colony in Southern India, and that her ... ... normal again. The man’s eyes opened. He looked at Helen in amazement and muttered something in a language she did not understand, except the words,... ...urved knives tucked into their Audrey Blankenhagen 202 belts. Ram Das shouted to them in their language,’Pushto’, which he had learned during his... ...des Orientales. Their rivalry with the British was more fierce and bitter than with the Dutch and Portuguese, because their respective countries’ ho... ...ed roughly to the floor of the phaeton. Someone shouted something in Audrey Blankenhagen 286 a language she did not understand and she felt the ca...

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...is not necessary to write down, being more palpable and perceptible in any language that some signs layed on the paper, which, in fact, represent an ... ...” - a “dadaist poem”, “the conversation in Chinese for an ignorant of this language” - a “lettrist poem”, “alternating discussions of travels, in a t... ...y and artistic works in scientific spaces (using scientific: symbols, meta-language, matrices, theorems, lemmas etc.). E) Third Paradoxist Manifes... ...upset free verse and trivial hermetic verse; - intelligible unintelligible language; - unsolved and open problems of mathematics like very nise poem... ...k of blanc pages, than one wich says nothing. A very abstract and symbolic language is further used, but very concrete at the same time: non-restric... ...sure to read for you the BRAZILIAN PARADOXIST MANIFESTO (please, excuse my Portuguese – this is my first attempt to learn your language!!): Bello H...

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...]\0 restrictions by any political system were imposed to me and no fear. It was like a lyrical fiesta that I enjoyed, .. This poetry volume, in seven languages, is a result of my "aggressive" cooperation and thousands of letters I sent (and received) between 1990-2000 since I exiled to and lived in America. In February 1991 I was invited to give a speech and read some of m...

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...ourne in Australia and moving gradually from teaching biblical studies and languages (which I had studied at UTS) to teaching the history of pre-Chris... ...hem both equally for what they felt and knew. I even polished my German, a language I particularly disliked when I studied it in university, to be abl... ... that is the closest approximation to a description of nirvana which human language can express. Nevertheless, there is something inexpressible about ... ...r title for the expected prophet was “Messiah,” a term used in the Aramaic language, which translated as “Christ” in Greek. In most of the New Testame... ...y texts the specific phrase “son of God” is applied to Jesus. In a Semitic language, such as Hebrew or Aramaic, such a phrase would usually be taken t... ...e at Lourdes. Another well-known ap- pearance was to three children in the Portuguese village of Fati- ma in 1917, which also led to the building of a...

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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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...on, fascinate our mind”. He includes in the semiotic paradox, the plays of language, the theater “for two odds”, the literature that “wrings the lang... ...f the confusion or 8 identification of two distinct levels of reality, language, thought or behaviour”. Since the paradox consists in the contrad... ...the surmounting of the impasse can be made only through the recourse to a language richer in resources than the one of the formal system considered.... ...trictions of different part of a proposition”). But, since the scientific languages take precautionary measures in view to avoid interaction between ... ...confusions), literature plays precisely on “disordered” manifestations of language: the amalgamation of meanings produces humour, the “sliding” of m... ...t, that is translations of poems of genre in Italian, Esperanto, Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Arabian. The linguistic diversity gives an id... ...ersale lyric, poems translated in Romanian from English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dorul, Aarborg, Denmark, 1998; 87 17. Teacher in A... ...ies / Bizarreries, Inter-noréal, Caen, France, 1989; partly translated in Portuguese by Teresinka Pereira and entitled: Fanatico, International Write... ...ages, author’s poems translated by others in Italian, Esperanto, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, Arabian, Aius, Craiova, 124p., 2000; 35. Inve...

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...mmands another expedition. -- A fleet despatched to avenge the massacre of the Portuguese -- A motley crowd of sailors -- The bloodthirstiness of da G... ... in history -- Miserable end of the barbarous voyagers -- The red trail of the Portuguese butchers -- Da Gama sent again, as viceroy of India -- He di... ...s -- Da Gama sent again, as viceroy of India -- He dies of poison -- Demon and Portuguese synonymous terms in India -- Da Gama's ghost, pursued, by th... ...coriation of Davis -- 24 of his men are killed -- Cavendish is defeated by the Portuguese -- A mutiny among the crew -- He attempts the execution of o... ...he statement may appear, we have it upon the authority of Antonio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters o... ...us city and there questioned by the King. But being unable to understand their language, the ruler sent for many interpreters from whom one was at len... ...any interpreters from whom one was at length obtained who understood the Latin language, which it happened that one of the fishermen too could speak. ... ...iod of five years, during which time they acquired a thorough knowledge of the language of the new people. One of the fishermen visited different part... ... where the young Venetian speedily acquired a knowledge of four of the leading languages of Tartary, and thus fitted himself for active service under ...

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...the history of Hawaii and of American journalism. In a period of 165 years, from 1834, when American Protestant missionaries introduced the Hawaiian language Lama Hawaii (Hawaiian Luminary), to the present, newspapers have spanned the history of Hawaii from its status as an independent nation, a republic, and a U. S. territory, to its position as a state. By newspapers...

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... for example, Aha Elele, Ka (The Convention), or Facho, O (The Torch), or Honolulu Advertiser, The. There are two exceptions. One is those Hawaiian language papers commonly referred to by the article preceding the noun, as in Ka Leo O Ka Lahui (The Voice of the Nation), or Na Pahu Kane (Sounding Drums). The other, for the same reason, is the Filipino language papers, as...

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...donesian -- 119 -- Japanese -- 119 -- Jewish -- 121 -- Korean -- 121 -- Labor -- 121 -- Micronesian -- 122 -- Military -- 122 -- Plantation -- 123 -- Portuguese -- 124 -- Prison -- 124 -- Samoan -- 124 -- School -- 124 -- Sports -- 124 -- Tongan -- 125 -- Tourist -- 125 -- Unclassified -- 125 -- Underground -- 125 -- Vietnamese -- 125 -- Newspapers in Print by Years 1834–2...

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...Sonnets from the Portuguese chronicles one of the most famous romances in history. The renowned Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett wrote the sonnet sequence during her courtship by Robert Browning, and later presented them to him as a wedding g...

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...trait of a Lady HENRY JAMES 1881 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents CHAPTER 1 . . . .... ... a foreign tongue. I can’t make her out. She ought to marry an Armenian or a Portuguese.” “That’s just what I’m afraid she’ll do!” cried Lilian, who t... ...” Ralph went on. Miss Stackpole gazed at him still. “Do you mean the foreign languages?” “The languages are nothing. I mean the spirit—the genius.” “I... ...strained deliberation, suggested a person of high culture speaking a foreign language. Ralph Touchett subsequently learned that she had at one time of... ...hetts aren’t English at all, you know; they have their own habits, their own language, their own food—some odd religion even, I believe, of their own.... ...ne the less in her behaviour because it spoke a conventional tongue. “What’s language at all but a convention?” said Isabel. “She has the good taste n...

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...nient to a girl who had always pre- pared her work alone. She could do the language work easily, but the questions teased her. They seemed to her of n... ...g one. She heard the observation pass between her aunt and the governess, ‘Languages fair, but she seems to have very little general information.’ Gen... ... was a great deal of merry family fun going on, which was quite like a new language to her. Fergus and Prim- rose wanted to go out in search of blackb... ...Ger- man that is crammed down girl’s throats, whether they have a turn for languages or not? Do they ever read a German book? Now you learnt it for lo... ...dings and investiga- tions into the creatures at the bottom of the sea, of Portuguese men-of-war, and albatrosses; and there were some orders to scien... ...hand on the wrapper, the Sphynx gave utter- ance to sounds so like the bad language of a cat that some looked round for one. The Professor waved at he...

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...ject. That argument was incorporated into the Nebraska Bill itself, in the language which follows: “It being the true intent and meaning of this Act n... ...n. He approaches it more than once, Using the precise idea, and almost the language, too, of the Nebraska Act. On one occasion, his exact language is,... ...e issues of this campaign. The first one of these points he bases upon the language in a speech which I delivered at Springfield, which I believe I ca... ...in favor of making them entirely uniform. He draws this inference from the language I have quoted to you. He says that I am in favor of making war by ... ...e was probably carefully prepared. I admit that it was. I am not master of language; I have not a fine education; I am not capable of entering into a ... ...inted out to him that by that rule he excludes the Germans, the Irish, the Portuguese, and all the other people who have come among us since the revol...

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... kissed it, declared it was a beauty and a darling; he spoke to it in baby language, prophesied that it would grow to be taller than himself, insinuat... ..., Crevel had “never looked at both sides of a crown-piece,” to use his own language, when he wanted to “do up” his rooms; he had gone with his purse o... ...th his mother must have been scared by a jaguar. This fine specimen of the Portuguese race in Brazil took his stand with his back to the fire, in an a... ...nto other hands. It was only by dint of endless complaints and much strong language that the com- mittee of subscribers succeeded in seeing the plaste... ...s in the 201 Balzac candle!—Come, give me your arm, dinner is served.” No language could be so thoroughly demoralizing as this; for if you show a Pol... ... tea. This was more than a compliment, it was a favor. There is a complete language in the manner in which a woman does this little civility; but wome...

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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... ...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... ...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... ...were rigid, he was impartial too, in asserting the laws of England. When a Portuguese nobleman, the brother of the Portu guese ambassador, killed a L...

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... express the flowery beauty of the fops and beaux of the olden time, whose language and demeanor were social laws: she called him “the pink of fashion... ...attempting to say to Paul a few flattering phrases as to Natalie’s manner, language, and beauty, ending by re- marks, cruelly calculated to deter him,... ...such speeches soon silenced them; for he now set the tone to the ideas and language as well as to the manners of those about him. He had imported from... ...thers impose on their daughters by laying down a programme of behavior and language until the time comes when they marry and are emancipated. She was ... ...ing off! Monsieur de Manerville is so disappointed that I—” No descriptive language can express the confusion and shock which the words, “break off,” ... ...sps, brace- lets, and chains, and said, in a mumbling tone:— “ A good many Portuguese diamonds from Brazil are among them. They are not worth more tha...

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...n of four hundred millions, of which probably half can read and write some language or other; Bogota with a population of a million, mostly poets; Hay... ...Germany makes sudden proposals af- fecting native labour that win over the Portuguese and the Boers? There are a score of such points upon which we sh... ...y possess it. And, more- over, this idea queries the adjective of Belgian, Portuguese, French, and British Central Africa alike, just as emphatically ... ...ood stamping out infectious disease in Nyasaland while it is being bred in Portuguese East Africa. And if there is a Disarmament Commission already co... ...ton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese—might all be represented in proportion to their interest. Whethe... ...with our kin and with those who in- creasingly share our tradition and our language, nevertheless we are prepared to welcome great renunciations of ou...

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... immediately saw not only the Ship, but what she was, (viz.) that it was a Portuguese Ship, and as I thought was bound to the Coast of Guinea for Negr... ...n about three Hours time I came up with them. They ask’d me what I was; in Portuguese, and in Swam, and in French, but I understood none of them; but ... ...o the Gentle woman with whom I had left my Money, and a Procuration to the Portuguese Captain, as he desired. I wrote the English Captain’s Widow a fu... ...hrive and prosper very well upon my Plantation; I had not only learn’d the Language, but had contracted Acquaintance and Friendship among my Fellow Pl... ...rances I enjoy’d, such as my Escape from Sallee; my being taken Lip by the Portuguese Master of the Ship; my being planted so well in the Brasils; my ... ...mediately knew that it was he that spoke to me; for just in such bemoaning Language I had used to talk to him, and teach him; and he had learn’d it so... ...possibly joyn with these Bearded men who I made no doubt were Spaniards or Portuguese; not doubting but if I could we might find some Method to Escape ... ... to his Father, and indeed to the Spaniard too; for the Spaniard spoke the Language of the Savages pretty well. After we had dined, or rather supped, ... ...apons: This he said he knew, because he heard them all cry out so in their Language to one another, for it was impossible to them to conceive that a M...

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...by its miserable splendor to scorch my brain? Wherefore shrink from giving language, simple vocal utterance, to that burden of anguish which by so lon... ...e 18 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers she quitted her palmistry for the language of astrology;] ‘there is a frightful danger at hand, both for your... ...est and most vital interests, the other telling her, through the liveliest language of animal sensibility, and through the very pulses of her blood, t... ...nation of our looks communicated contagiously, by the most unerring of all languages, from each to the other what thoughts were uppermost in our panic... ...ez on reaching T ucuman found no Spaniards to mix with, but instead twelve Portuguese. Catalina remembered the Spanish proverb—‘Subtract from a Spania... ...m a Spaniard all his good qualities, and the remainder makes a pretty fair Portuguese;’ but, as there was nobody else to 122 Narrative and Miscellane... ...rt distance. The light-hearted young cavalier whistled, as he went, an old Portuguese ballad of romance; and in a quarter of an hour came up to an hou... ...e hour of vengeance had struck; and, step- ping hastily up, she tapped the Portuguese on the shoulder, saying —‘Senor, you are a robber!’ The Portugue... ... her sword through her opponent’s body; and without a groan or a sigh, the Portuguese cavalier fell dead at his own door. Kate searched the street wit...

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...f Macpherson when the name of his creation Ossian was transcribed into all languages. That was certainly, for the Scotch lawyer, one of the keenest, o... ...beggar, but not the Parisian beggar,—that creation without a name in human language; no, this man formed another type, while presenting on the outside... ...spectator of this scene, “but I know that he is Monsieur de Funcal, a rich Portuguese.” Monsieur de Funcal had disappeared. The baron followed but wit... ... questioned the prefect, ascertained that the Comte de Funcal lived at the Portuguese embassy. At this moment, while he still felt the icy fingers of ... ...r Dougal nor Jeannie, alarming no one,—being as chaste as our noble French language requires, and as bold as the pencil of Gerard in his picture of Da... ... I have heard poor Justin say, that Monsieur de Funcal lives at either the Portuguese or the Brazilian embassy. Monsieur de Funcal is a nobleman belon... ...ough to read, my friend! It is written on the grid- iron plan, used by the Portuguese minister under Monsieur 76 Ferragus de Choiseul, at the time of... ...ishes are eating. God knows it is not for my own sake I have made myself a Portuguese count!” “Poor Gratien!—you, the wisest of us all, our beloved br... ... the elegant young man in that thing without—as Bossuet said—a name in any language. It was, in truth, a corpse with whitened hair, its bones scarce c...

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...e been, in his own fashion, as out spoken as Tiraqueau. If such freedom of language could be permitted in a grave treatise of law, similar liberties w... ...reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to ... ... spoke as those of his time used to speak; when amusing them he used their language to make himself understood, and to slip in his asides, which witho... ...revolt from him, and turn away repulsed at once by the archaic form of the language and by the out- spokenness of the words. But if he be read aloud t... ...th and mastery of the popular tongue as well as of the written and learned language. As a foreigner, Cotgrave is a little behind in his information. H... ... advice, and that of Xenomanes also, was not to steer the course which the Portuguese use, while sailing through the torrid zone, and Cape Bona Speran... ... per- formed in less than four months the voyage of Upper India, which the Portuguese, with a thousand inconveniences and 529 Rabelais innumerable da...

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... EMBOURG, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHER- LANDS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUB- LIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GRE... ...or Foreign Affairs; Willem KOK, Minister for Finance; THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUB- LIC: Joao de DEUS PINHERO, Minister for Foreign Affairs; ... ...n in education, particularly through the teaching and dissemination of the languages of the Member States; —encouraging mobility of students and teach... ...inal in the Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages, the texts in each of these languages bein... ...ch, English, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages, the texts in each of these languages being equally authentic, sh... ...acility with the Banco de Portugal under the terms established by existing Portuguese law. 2. Portugal commits itself to pursue its best endeav- ors i... ...lic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Portuguese Republic, wish to continue along the path laid down in the 1989 ... ...d of the common foreign and security policy. 29. Declaration on the use of languages in the field of the common foreign and security policy 30. Declar... ...operation between the latter and the Commission. DECLARATION ON THE USE OF LANGUAGES IN THE FIELD OF THE COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY The Confer...

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...confines of Normandy, Picardy, and the Ile-de-France, a bastard land whose language is without accent and its landscape is without character. It is th... ...nsecutively to a “lady.” How then had he been able to explain, and in such language, the number of things that he could not have said so well before? ... ...ne who reposes bathed in warmth, expanded softly and fully at this glowing language. “But if I did not come,” he continued, “if I could not see you, a... ...e eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language. He did not distinguish, this man of so much experience, the diffe... ...xed. She had made up her mind to resignation, to universal indulgence. Her language about everything was full of ideal expressions. She said to her ch... ...ne, “read D’Holbach, read the ‘Encyclopaedia’!” “Read the ‘Letters of some Portuguese Jews,’” said the other; “read ‘The Meaning of Christianity,’ by ...

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... in sight just before sundown on the day he was cut adrift; and used other language of a consola- tory nature, which occasioned me no less surprise th... ... and which consists of three circular islands, was first discovered by the Portuguese, and was visited afterward by the Dutch in 1643, and by the Fren... ...e Royal Hydrographical Soci- ety of Madrid in the year 1809, the following language is used respecting this expedition: “The corvette Atrevida practis... ... of beauty, and the thrilling and enthralling eloquence of her low musical language, made their way into my heart by paces so steadily and stealth- il... ... eye- lids. Through a species of unutterable horror and awe, for which the language of mortality has no sufficiently energetic expres- sion, I felt my... ... longer bear the touch of her wan fingers, nor the low tone of her musical language, nor the lustre of her melancholy eyes. And she knew all this, but...

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...e is, by his own showing, a great favourite with many wherever the English language is spoken, and that, too, a century after his death. And there are... ...s; although, on the other hand, notwithstanding his frequent coarseness of language and looseness of allu- sion, he exhibits no desire to overturn or ... ...tever Cornbury disdains; Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains.” Pope’s language seems as if it were laboriously formed by himself for his peculiar... ...pared to all English before him, Pope’s English is a new although a lesser language. He has so cut down, shorn, and trimmed the broad old oak of Shaks... ...ished nonsense, and one of the most exquisitely-managed machineries in the language. His “Eloisa and Abelard,” a poem beautiful and almost unequalled ... ...uineas, for discovering the erroneous translations of the Common Prayer in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, &c. As for my genius, let Mr Cleland ...

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...st by Richard HENRY DANA 1840 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . .... ...aid he. I satisfied him on that point by saying that he could speak no language but the German and English. ‘‘I’m plaguy glad o’ dat,’’ sai... ...to and fro, we gained considerable knowledge of the character, dress, and language of the people. The dress of the men was as I have before describ... ...ves Castilians, they are very ambi- tious of speaking the pure Castilian language, which is spoken in a somewhat corrupted dialect by the lower c... ... elegant Spanish. It was a plea- sure, simply to listen to the sound of the language, before I could attach any meaning to it. They have a good deal ... ... world. A great many from the north of Europe, beside Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, men from all parts of the Mediterranean, together...