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...? Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of In- toxicating Liquors... ...e have no such Philosophy, stands here for the first time published in our language. What English intellect could have chosen such a topic, or by chan... ...on and procedure, a valuable de- scriptive History already exists, in that language, under the title of Satan’s Invisible World Displayed; which, how-... ... with a certain horror at myself and mankind; almost as one feels at those Dutch Cows, which, during the wet season, you see grazing deliberately with... ...rticle, down from Heaven? Thus is he said also to be clothed with a Body. “Language is called the Garment of Thought: however, it should rather be, La... ... this Flesh- Garment; and does not she? Metaphors are her stuff: ex- amine Language; what, if you except some few primitive elements (of natural sound... ...hile, the question of questions were: What specially is a Miracle? To that Dutch King of Siam, an icicle had been a miracle; whoso had carried with hi... ...nowing at least as much of what is going on in the literary way in the old Dutch Mother-land as our brethren of the fast-anchored Isle; but thus far w...

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...o himself, a con- siderable amount of business. He had done, in commercial language, ‘a good stroke of business.’ Upon two floors, viz., the cellar-fl... ...arr’s murderer, now at work!’ All explained itself in a moment: the silent language of the fact made its own eloquent revelation. The mysterious exter... ... the case of any primitive Christian teacher having attempted to speak the language of scientific truth in dealing with the phenomena of astronomy, ge... ...jects, will not condescend to teach at all. The Bible adopts the erroneous language of men (which at any rate it must do, in order to make itself unde... ...nd, in relation to their causes, speaks by the same popular and inaccurate language which is current for ordinary purposes, even amongst the most scie... ...f intercepting any further draughts upon the rest of the solar system, the Dutch ambassador rose, and proposed the health of their high mightinesses t...

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...con viction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country. Now I am twenty eight and am in... ...n to secure it. I was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the language of my heart, to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul ... ...his constant answer to my unwearied en treaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in The Vicar of Wakefield: `I have ten thousand florin... ...university with the design of making himself complete master of the oriental languages, and thus he should open a field for the plan of life he had m... ...ding scope for his spirit of enterprise. The Persian, Ara bic, and Sanscrit languages engaged his attention, and I was easily induced to enter on the... ...nse of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe. This state of mind preyed upon my health, which ha...

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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... ...a waiting-room at Pittsburg. I had now under my charge a young and sprightly Dutch widow with her children; these I was to watch over providentially f... ...station, pronounced it, with a doctoral air, “a fever and ague morning.” The Dutch widow was a person of some character. She had conceived at first si... ...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... ...LL THIS WHILE I had been travelling by mixed trains, where I might meet with Dutch widows and little German gentry 15 Robert Louis Stevenson fresh fr... ...as a tall, strapping, long-limbed, small-headed, curly-haired Penn- sylvania Dutchman, with a soldierly smartness in his man- ner. T o be exact, he ha... ... 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... ...d. And thencefor- 37 Robert Louis Stevenson ward, down by Blue Canon, Alta, Dutch Flat, and all the old mining camps, through a sea of mountain fores... ...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 ...

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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 ... ...mselves in the colony. ****Slavery was introduced about the year 1620 by a Dutch vessel which landed twenty negroes on the banks of the river James. S... ... city of Leyden in 1610, where they abode, being lovingly respected by the Dutch, for many years: they left it in 1620 for several reasons, the last o... ... last of which was, that their posterity would in a few generations become Dutch, and so lose their interest in the English nation; they being desirou... ...ery eye, and pithy speeches pierced each other’s heart, that sundry of the Dutch strangers that stood on the Key as spectators could not re- frain fro...

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... KING: Those girls of Italy, take heed of them: They say, our French lack language to deny, If they demand: beware of being captives, Before you ser... ...ELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and PAROLLES retire.] LAFEU: Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I ll like a maid the better, whilst I have a tooth in my he... ...ion. PAROLLES: Recantation! My lord! my master! LAFEU: Ay; is it not a language I speak? PAROLLES: A most harsh one, and not to be understood wit... ...y but by this hedge-corner. When you sally upon him, speak what terrible language you will: though you understand it not yourselves, no matter; for ... ... i the adversary s entertainment. Now he hath a smack of all neighboring languages; therefore we must every one be a man of his own fancy, not to k... ...to another; so we seem to know, is to know straight our purpose: choughs language, gabble enough, and good enough. As for you, inter- preter, you m... ... lose my life for want of language; If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch, Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I ll Discover that which s...

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...uthor of The Human Comedy has painted an epoch. In the fresh and wonderful language of the Merry Vicar Of Meudon, he has given us a marvellous picture... ...by their more fastidi- ous descendants. In England the difficulties of the language employed, and the quaintness and peculiarity of its style, have pl... ...f course, been impossible to reproduce in all its vigour and freshness the language of the original. Many of the quips and cranks and puns have been l... ...contrary, given as close a translation as the dissimi- larities of the two languages permit. With this idea, no at- tempt had been made to polish or r... ...only for Imperia, near whom he was already seated, but speaking that sweet language which the ladies so well understand, that has neither stops, com- ... ...with the pestilence.” The bishop opened his mouth wide enough to swallow a Dutch cheese. “How do you know that?” asked he. “Ah!” said the cardinal, ta... ...say three times.” “That will soon be earned,” said Cornelius, who, being a Dutchman, had his lips as often compressed and serious as Madame’s mouth wa... ...ay civilly to them, “Baisez mon cul,” the two misers, dis- trustful of his Dutch gravity, replied, “Certainly, sir,” as if he had sneezed. The which c...

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...upied by Europeans. (It is astonishing, by the way, how comprehensive that language is, and how much can be conveyed in one or two of the commonest ph... ...th luck, impudence, and a complete command of all the Eastern dialects and languages, from Burmah to Afghanistan, to pass scot-free through this somew... ...the pillar of smoke in which I was encompassed, I told Holkar, in Oriental language of course, the best tale I could with regard to the fort. “Sir,” s... ...early proved fatal to me, for, when I *The Major has put the most approved language into the mouths of his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, ... ...ed trifle. Half a drum of best Turkey figs. Some bits of broken bread; two Dutch cheeses (whole); the crust of an old Stilton; and about an ounce of a... ...s of bank-notes—I found—a piece of paper! with a few lines in the Sanscrit language, which are thus, word for word, translated:— “Epigram. (On disappo... ...rison were without food, I knew my duty as an officer, and had put the two Dutch cheeses into the two guns, and hand crammed the contents of a bottle ... ...a bottle of olives into each swivel. They advanced,—whish! went one of the Dutch cheeses,— bang! went the other. Alas! they did little execution. In t...

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...nd he gives you wages—shabby wages they are, too.” I was silent. Hunsden’s language now bordered on the im- pertinent, still his manner did not offend... ...ine. My southern accent annoyed him; the degree of education evinced in my language irritated him; my punctuality, industry, and accuracy, fixed his d... ..., no doubt; still you are such a complete Seacombe in appearance, feature, language, almost manner, I wonder they should disown you.” “They have disow... ...ived, very pictur- esque; she reminded me of the female figures in certain Dutch paintings I had seen in other years at Seacombe Hall. I repaired to t... ...f the capital I was in; it was my first experience of that skill in living languages I afterwards found to be so general in Brussels. I lingered over ... ...e those of a Low Country Madonna; many a “figure de Vierge” have I seen in Dutch pictures exactly resembling hers; there were no angles in her shape o... ...to each other, as a pair of human beings, our positions were reversed. The Dutchman (he was not Flamand, but pure Hollandais) was slow, cool, of rathe... ...ive, quicker both to plan and to practise, to conceive and to realize. The Dutchman was benevolent, the Englishman susceptible; in short our character... ... with unrestrained vivacity. My vivid words and emphatic gesture moved his Dutch calm to unwonted sensa- tion. He said he was happy—glad to have serve...

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...ajor’s door, and when the Major having his thin slices of bacon in his own Dutch oven saw me he came out of his chair and put me down on the sofa. “Hu... ...able the very hat off his head, and at the same time so furious in foreign languages that they would stand with their handles half-turned fixed like t... ...h murderers when he adds “He followed the Monkey.” I says deeming it slang language “O sir explain for a loving grandmother what Monkey!” He says “Him...

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...ch lay at a distance of several hundred feet lower, there was what, in the language of the country, was called a clearing, and all the usual improveme... ...th,” said the youth firmly but respect fully, and with a pronunciation and language vastly superior to his ap- pearance: “with how many shot did you l... ...ely beneath the living members of the tree, sat a bird, that in the vulgar language of the country was in- discriminately called a pheasant or a partr... ...ends was tinctured with the aspect of this mild reli- gion, his habits and language were some what marked by its peculiarities. His own marriage at a ... ... pronounced the word “English,” or “Yengeese.” New York being originally a Dutch province, the term of course was not known there, and Farther south d... ...y , on the fertile borders of that beautiful stream. The Germans, or “High Dutchers,” as they were called, to distinguish them from the original or Lo... ...tchers,” as they were called, to distinguish them from the original or Low Dutch colonists, were a very peculiar people. They possessed all the gravit... ...avity of the latter, without any of their phlegm; and like them, the “High Dutchers” were industrious, honest, and economical, Fritz, or Frederick Har... ...ment for Marmaduke T emple, who was the only man that could not speak High Dutch that ever gained his en tire confidence Four times in each year, at ...

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... can suppose it to adhere to their actions. And nowhere do we find grosser language than in some of Pope’s prose epistles to the Blounts. His “Pastora... ...ts of civilised literary warfare; and although Pope had been coarse in his language, they were coarser far, and their blackguardism was not redeemed b... ...d to look down with contempt, on account of their obvious animus and gross language. Others, again, were neutralised by the fact, that their authors h... ...Young Gentlemen about T own,” in which he commits many gross indecorums of language, and annexes the name of the great Bentley to several indecent not... ...lar specimen of latitudinarian thought, expressed in a loose simplicity of language, quite unusual with its author. The next year he had intended to s... ...d pare her nails, And wear a cleaner smock. 2 Haughty and huge as High-Dutch bride, Such nastiness, and so much pride Are oddly join’d by fa... ... made. 2 Her learning and good breeding such, Whether the Italian or the Dutch, Spaniards or French came to her: T o all obliging she’d appear... ...hful, mad, or drunk, Slave to a wife, or vassal to a punk, A Switz, a High-Dutch, or a Low-Dutch bear; All that we ask is but a patient ear. ’Tis the ...

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..., turning round with a vehe- mence strangely contrasting with her previous language, ‘wherefore should we not go with Glenuskie to be with Meg at Bour... ...oked from one to the other without a word; and the Bishop, in more courtly language, explained that amid all these contending parties he could not but... ... intended, and she pouted a little, while the Cardinal asked, changing his language, ‘Ces donzelles, ont elles appris le Francais?’ Jean, who had trie... ...temptations, coarsenesses and cruelties, and the strange land with its new language. The alternative seemed to her from Maudelin in her worldly days t... ... two of the Cardinal’s chaplains, in a crooked and crabbed calligraphy and language much more resembling Anglo-Saxon than modern English, a letter to ... ...The very notion of coming to any terms made Geordie furious. If the craven Dutchman chose to sneak off and go in search of a ransom, forsooth, he woul... ... treason to your brother to be dubbed after a fair fight, though ’tis by a Dutch prince.’ ‘Thy King’s sister shall mend that, and bind your spurs,’ sa...

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...mask, had been respected and allowed to keep the brown tones of the native Dutch oak. In the four corners of this parlor were truncated columns, suppo... ... life. His thick blond hair, ill cared-for, fell over his shoulders in the Dutch fashion, and its very disorder was in keeping with the general eccent... ...m- ish character. The father of Balthazar, a last relic of the once famous Dutch society, left behind him the finest known col- lection of tulips. Bes... ... ing his expenses, as Frenchmen do, upon his revenues, he followed the old Dutch custom of spending only a fourth of his income. Twelve hundred ducats... ...ore forbearing than we, these divine creatures do not let us know when the language of their souls is not understood by us; they shrink from letting u... ...old gob- lets with stems and feet which may be seen in the pictures of the Dutch or Flemish school. The dinner-service of faience, decorated with rais... .... Melancholy thanks from the lips of the young girl supplanted the honeyed language of lovers; the sighing of their hearts, surcharged with joy at som... ...by respect for the sufferings of the mother, they clung to the magnificent language of the eyes, the mute eloquence of devoted actions, the constant u... ...ent of his tutor, Monsieur de Solis, worked studiously, acquired for- eign languages, and prepared to pass the necessary examina- tions to enter the E...

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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... ..., his eye timorous and dull: he seemed at once oppressed with drowsiness and held awake by apprehension: a pepper rajah muddled with opium, and listen... ... passed us daily going afield; but they fetched a wide circuit round our tapu, and seemed to avert their looks. At times we went ourselves into the vi...

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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... ...risell cherished in her bosom. She was then conducted to a booth kept by a Dutchman, where she obtained the warm winter garments that she needed for h... ...anded, when Grisell brought him up to the solar. “Look at my bairn, Master Dutchman; see to 83 Charlotte M. Young healing him,” she continued imperio... ...bairn! My bairn!” snatching him to her arms. “This is none other than your Dutchman’s doings, girl. Have him to the dungeon! Where are the stocks? Oh,... ... ’twas tied by the enemy indeed, the deadly sin of sloth, and that a stout Dutchman ought to be ashamed 108 Grisly Grisell of himself for ca... ...ooking much entertained. Wearmouth, he said, was in a commotion. The great Dutch Whitburn man-at-arms had come in full of the wonderful story. Not onl... ... 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...

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...in his imagination, glowed and quivered, darkening at the utterance of the Dutch syllables, leaving a tinge of witless envy. Dartrey—Fenellan had buri... ... the worthy attorney, whose in- nermost imp burst out periodically, like a Dutch clocksentry, to trot on his own small grounds for thinking himself of... ...hey would have had no weight, they would hardly have seemed an apology for language, beside Victor’s gaze of pleasure in the noble forthroll of the no... ...ted and then desired to receive. It hardly mattered:— considering that the Dutch Navy did really, incredible as it seems now, come sailing a good way ... ...the Tower in sympathy, wondering whether the Tower had seen those impudent Dutch a nice people at home, he had heard. Mr. Shaplow’s Jarniman might act... ...d to be. ‘Victor speaks of the certainty of his release.’ His release! Her language pricked a satirist’s gallbladder. Colney refrained from speaking t... ...were, of his missing or misapprehended person in a foreign country, of the language of which three unpronounce- able words were knocking about his hea... ...totally other. Thus we are taught, that a foreign General, ignorant of the language, must confine him- self to defensive operations at home; he would ... ...rious in her primitive licentiousness, unless we labour body and soul like Dutchmen at the dam. Here she was, and not desired, almost detested! Nature...

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...lli- ance of the four states of Wajo. We fought amongst ourselves, and the Dutch watched from afar till we 28 Tales of Unrest were weary. Then the sm... ...and collected tolls for my brother from the passing boats. One day I saw a Dutch trader go up the river. He went up with three boats, and no toll was ... ... with three boats, and no toll was demanded from him, because the smoke of Dutch war-ships stood out from the open sea, and we were too weak to forget... .... “Then Pata Matara’s sister fled from the campong and went to live in the Dutchman’s house. She was a great and wilful lady: I had seen her once carr... ...ace, for she knew she had been promised to another man. Matara went to the Dutchman’s house, and said, ‘Give her up to die—she is the daughter of chie... ... been distracted by the visitation of God; but some did not understand our language, and some cursed us, or, yawning, asked with contempt the reason o... ...l, and in the silence of foreign countries she spoke to me very low in the language of my people. No one saw her; no one heard her; she was mine only!... ...scussed what it was pleased to call “Our Colonial Expansion” in high-flown language. It spoke much of the rights and duties of civilization, of the sa... ...bling the speech of civilized men. It sounded like one of those impossible languages which sometimes we hear in our dreams. “What lingo is that?” said...

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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... ...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... ..., the conscious pride of possessing them gave additional importance to his language and deportment. At his first address to Waverley, it would seem th... ...y yet as my old friend Sir Everard— mais cela viendra avec le temps, as my Dutch acquaintance, Baron Kikkitbroeck, said of the sagesse of Madame Son E... ...ree English quarts, familiarly denominated a tappit hen, and which, in the language of the hostess, reamed (i.e. mantled) with excellent claret, just ... ...t; and now the Demon of Politics envied even the harmony arising from this Dutch concert, merely because there was not a wrathful note in the strange ... ...use to you when we were on the top of the Shinnyheuch; it was burnt by the Dutch auxiliaries brought in by the Government in 1715); I never sat for my... ...poonful of these nutritive viands into his capacious mouth. A pot- bellied Dutch bottle of brandy which stood by, intimated either that this honest li...

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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 ... ...side; eh?” She answered in the same tone of under-dialogue, using the cant language of her tribe—”Cut ben Whids, and stow them—a gentry cove of the ke... ... Captain Dirk Hatteraick, and the Yungfrauw Hagenslaapen, half Manks, half Dutchman, half devil! run out the bowsprit, up mainsail, top and top-gallan... ...ng them off in triumph to the next custom-house. Dirk Hatteraick vowed, in Dutch, Ger- man, and English, a deep and full revenge, both against the gau... ...ble profession by my great-uncle), and has a par- ticular antipathy to the Dutch; think with what ear he would be likely to receive proposals for his ... ...s blended with familiar love, derived from early as- sociation. Despite my Dutch education, a blue hill to me is as a friend, and a roaring torrent li... ...link among the stones!—the noise cannot fail to wake them—furies seize his Dutch awkwardness!—The light burns free again—they have torn him from the w...