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...society never gets the knowledge embedded in it. (This is a real danger. The medieval guilds often relied on secrecy to maintain the com- mercial adva... ...h Profes- sional Edition”? We can certainly imagine such a way of organizing languages. (To some extent, scribal conventions operated this way. The la...

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...s In Wllllamstown two evenings a week for six weeks. F. KARBAUM Teacher of Languages NORTH ADAMS, MASS. WILLIAMS INN A, H. L, Bemis, Prop, Full line o... ...ator, his rank is high. He took the broader view that the study of ancient languages should have as its purpose the enlarge- ment of the student's fie... ...In Wllllamstown two evenings a week for six weeks, F. KARBAUiVl Teacher of Languages NORTH ADAMS, MASS. WILLIAMSINN A. II. L. HqiiiIs, Prop, Full line... ...Spanish literature and has recently ac- cepted a preceptorship in romiince languages at Princeton ufniversity. '05—The marriage of Miss Daisy Ethel Da... ...t Juno. Of this nnnihnr, fuui are members uf the Depart- ment of Roiiiance Languages, two are instructors in Mathematics, and the remaining three are ... ...istory need intelligent adaptation to the present. The differences between medieval conditions and present conditions do not invalidate the arsument t...

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...Apollonius of Tyre is the subject of an ancient short novella, popular during medieval times. Existing in numerous forms in many languages, the text is thought to be translated from an ancient Greek manuscript, now lost. The earliest manuscripts of the tale, in a Latin version, date from the 9th or 10t...

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...antedates the latter by many centuries, and was known to all nations whose languages prove by their resemblance to the German tongue their original id... ...nd the wise dwarf Regin, who taught him the knowledge of runes and of many languages. * At the suggestion of Regin, Sigurd asks for and receives the s... ...sembled court, and requires as its background all the pomp and splendor of medieval chivalry. With a master hand and a wonderful knowledge of female c... ...h unhesitating consistency to the bitter end. This is not the gallantry of medieval chivalry, which colors so largely the opening scenes of the poem, ...

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...han Aesop’s Fables. They have been translated into the greater number of the languages both of Europe and of the East, and have been read, and will b... ...f subjects. It has no correspondence with the pure Aesopian fable. 12 Post medieval Preachers, by S. Baring Gould. Rivingtons, 1865. 13 For an acco...

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... her hair down her back; I could call her by a hundred names, in a hundred languages, Melisande, Elizabeth, Juliet, Butterfly, Phèdre, Minnehaha, etc.... ... under the big feather bed, listening to the running and whispering of the medieval Rhine. And when I waked up again it was sunny, it was morning on t...

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...e became a fanatic about music. All the energies that might have gone into languages, science, or literature, that might have made her friends, or sho... ...away to the other side of the world as they were, in smoky rooms, and grey medieval courts, they appeared remarkable figures, free-spoken men with who... ...it again, but kept it on her table, and looked at it occasionally, as some medieval monk kept a skull, or a crucifix to remind him of the frailty of t... ... a little stir. “It’s coming!” was said simultaneously in many differ- ent languages. There was then a profound silence, as if the thunder had withdra...

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...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... ..., was finishing a rondeau to show how diverting was life amid the feuds of medieval Florence, but how dull it was in so obvious a place as Zenith. And... ...field. Do you know, the other evening Eunice told me her papa speaks three languages!” said Mrs. Babbitt. “Huh! That’s nothing! So do I—American, base... ...e stone rotunda, decorated with crown-embroidered velvet chairs and almost medieval tapestries, parrakeets sat on gilded lotos columns. With exclamati...

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...hapter-houses, chapels, and transepts) one-storeyed and dwarfish projections. To add to this appearance, it was grotesquely decorated with crockets an... ...voice again. Where are you going, did you say?’ ‘Sare, I am go-ing to Lon-don,’ said the Major. I could have flung my plate at him to be such an ass, ... ... was a very little error, and one that might have passed ninety-nine times in a hundred. But my limb of the law was as swift to pick it up as though h... ...have had many opportunities by which I have prof- ited,’ he explained. ‘Few men are better acquainted with the similarities and differences, whether o...

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...anger the safety of tidings, running day and night between all nations and languages? Or can it be fancied, amongst the weakest of men, that the bodie... ...ideous creatures, however visionary 8 , have a real traditionary ground in medieval belief—sincere and partly reasonable, though adulterating with men...

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... places?” “It’s this accursed science,” I cried. “It’s the very Devil. The medieval priests and persecutors were right and the Moderns are all wrong. ... ... latter class belongs Tsi-puff, the first lunar professor of ter- restrial languages. With regard to these latter, it is a curious little thing to not...

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...ad lost much of his natural confidence, so far as figures and sciences and languages and the possibilities of learning things were con- cerned. He tho... ...imself, un- der the impression that he was naming a characteristic type of medieval churchman. He liked to sit in the nave during the service, and loo...

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..., in the garden, with the beautiful Neckar flowing at our feet, the quaint Dilsberg looming beyond, and the graceful towers and battle- ments of a cou... ...an champagne, had a marked and subduing effect on Harris. He believed she belonged to the royal family. But I had my doubts. We heard two or three dif... ...eeds of modern travel have cre- ated in every attractive spot on the continent. There was a great gathering at dinner, and, as usual, one heard all so... ...ry bad couriers; but I have also had dealings with one who might fairly be called perfection. He was a young Polander, named Joseph N. Verey. He spoke... ...niform; he can always be found when he is wanted, for he sticks closely to his post at the front door; he is as polite as a duke; he speaks from four ... ...in Spots. There, now, the reader can see for himself that this pro- noun business is a very awkward thing for the unaccustomed tongue. I suppose that ...

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...es. Her uncle and her cousin were there to prove it; nothing could be more medieval than many of their views; they had ideas that people in England no... ...Ralph went on. Miss Stackpole gazed at him still. “Do you mean the foreign languages?” “The languages are nothing. I mean the spirit—the ge- nius.” “I... ...rt in frames as pedanti- cally primitive, those perverse-looking relics of medieval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exha... ...istoric building in a narrow street whose very name recalled the strife of medieval factions; and found com- pensation for the darkness of her frontag...

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...ans of megaphones, in a weird and startling ipanner, in a great variety of languages. Official-looking per- sons had signalled to him by means of flag... ...g because of the different names of the letters of the alphabet in the two languages. “And now, Mr. Schmallvays,” he said at last, leaning back and re... ... fought like junks, throwing grenades fighting hand to hand in an entirely medieval fashion. The risks of a collapse and fall on either side came near...

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...Standard in the National School under a London trained mistress, spoke two languages; the dialect at home, more or less; ordinary English Phase the F... ...ew tree and the north aisle.’ ‘It’s a curious story; it carries us back to medieval times, when faith was a living thing!’ The remark, singular for a ...

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...ently that King’s School would remain true to its old traditions. The dead languages were taught with such thoroughness that an old boy seldom thought... ... not made up my mind. But whatever I am, it’ll be useful to know for- eign languages. I shall get far more out of a year in Germany than by staying on... ...oned education so use- ful nowadays as it had been in the past, and modern languages were gaining an importance which they had not had in his own yout... ...ze; and the tall roofs, the spires of the churches, gave it a pleas- antly medieval air. There was a homeliness in it which warmed the heart. Hayward ...

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...the first books on samurai ethics that was originally written in English for a Western audience, and has been subsequently translated into many other languages (also Japanese). Nitobe found in Bushido, the Way of the Warrior, the sources of the virtues most admired by his people: rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty and self-control, and h...

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...ntly clear that private tutors, natural history, science, and the mod- ern languages, were the appliances by which the defects of my organization were... ...h its shrunken lights, this surviving 23 George Eliot withered remnant of medieval Judaism, was of a piece with my vision. Those darkened dusty Chris...

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...s and in some ancient, there is great diversity of populations, of varying languages, religions, moral codes, and traditions. From this stand- point, ... ..., nature study, drawing, singing, physics, chem- istry, modern and foreign languages, and so on? Let us recur to two of the points made earlier in our... ...and linguistic studies, which in turn tend to shrink to “the classics,” to languages no longer spoken. For modern languages may evidently be put to us... ...udy to its respective end. “Memory is trained by most studies, but best by languages and history; taste is trained by the more advanced study of langu... ... tion of “faculties” to be trained, and a dominant interest in the ancient languages; there is comparative disregard of the earth on which men happen ... ...thing, of the practi- 274 Democracy & Education cal and the intellectual. Medieval philosophy continued and reinforced the tradition. To know reality... ... occasion for treating it as an enemy to man’s higher interests. Greek and medieval knowledge accepted the world in its qualitative variety, and regar... ...ivate psychic consciousness is comparatively modern. In both the Greek and medieval periods, the rule was to regard the individual as a chan- nel thro... ...d and the personal self wherever beliefs are transmitted by custom. In the medieval period there was a religious individual- ism. The deepest concern ...

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...rts of nonsense. He said it would be nice if we could suddenly come upon a medieval castle with turreted towers, with moss on it and owls, in which we... ... the second half of the sixth year the prisoner began zeal- ously studying languages, philosophy, and history . He threw himself eagerly into these st... ... letter from his prisoner: “My dear Jailer, I write you these lines in six languages. Show them to people who know the languages. Let them read them. ... ...een thrown away. The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages, but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what ... ...ch. He knew Russian, Swedish, and German. He had read a good deal in those languages, and nothing one could do gave him greater pleasure than lending ...

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...er amongst Germans, however ably they may have been naturalized in foreign languages, as all of those here mentioned (excepting only Anosto) have in o... ...ith the polished classes amongst whom he lived, he did wisely to add other languages; and a question has thus arisen with regard to the extent of Pope... ...may be dispensed with, and even beneficially. But in the case of for- eign languages, in attaining this machinery of literature, though anomalies even... ...s there has been much difference of opinion with regard to Pope’s skill in languages, we shall briefly collate and bring into one focus the stray noti... ...ch, for so long a period, has passed the correspondence of all nations and languages, upon a scale unknown to any other country. In this street Alexan... ...notion found little counte- nance in Lamb’s own way of treating the gloomy medieval traditions propagated throughout Europe about the Jews, and their ...

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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... ...ons to this rule as are afforded, 207 Veblen for instance, by some of the medieval orders of monks (the members of which actually labored to some use... ...ce of the vogue of the classics of the past — a knowledge of the an- cient languages, for instance, would have no practical bear- ing for any scientis... ...tem of education, the ability to use and to understand certain of the dead languages of southern Europe is not only gratifying to the person who finds... ...e on conspicuous leisure as a means of repute, the acquisition of the dead languages is no longer so imperative a requirement as it once was, and its ... ...connotation of wasteful and archaic, whether it is used to denote the dead languages or the obsolete or obsolescent forms of thought and diction in th...

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...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... ...theirs—my name is nothing to them, Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name? A healthy ... ... and chatter all your life? And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences, Unwitting to day that you do not know how to sp... ...ace between, To day our Antipodes comes. The Originatress comes, The nest of languages, the bequeather of poems, the race of eld, Florid with blood, p... ...ses, the fishes, the brutes, All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages, All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, o... ...ange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—h...

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...gents. It lacked sufficient translators proficient in Arabic and other key languages, resulting in a significant backlog of untranslated intercepts. 2... ...y few American colleges or universities offered programs in Middle Eastern languages or Islamic studies.The total number of undergraduate degrees gran... ... translation unit for domestic intelligence intercepts in Arabic and other languages, did not. 60 Pressing Pakistan While this process moved along, di... ...was from a joint FBI/CIA source who spoke essentially no English and whose languages were not understood by the FBI agent on the scene overseas. Issue... ... such as textbooks that translate more of the world’s knowledge into local languages and libraries to house such materials. Education about the outsid... ...l. 1 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994). 8. See Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, enlarged ed. (Y ale Univ. Press, 199...

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...cannot get into the Petty Bag Office without knowing at least three modern languages; and he must be well up in trigonometry too, in Bible theology, o... ...even in this way any approximation could have been made, even in these old medieval days, towards a fair proportioning of the pay to the work. At any ...

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...ound 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 ... ...ed Vronsky that he even wore a hat and flung a cloak over his shoulder in the medieval style, which, indeed, was extremely becoming to him. “Here we li... ...ng his portrait of Anna, deciding that it was now not needed. His picture of medieval life he went on with. And he himself, and Golenishtchev, and sti...