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...Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . ... ...ese home Alarmes. Exeunt. Scaena Secunda. 217 Enter Gaunt, and Dutchesse of Gloucester. 218 Gaunt. Alas, the part I had in Glous... ...common ayre 451 Haue I deserued at your Highnesse hands. 452 The Language I haue learn’d these forty yeares 453 (My natiue English) now... ... Yor. What is’t knaue? 1052 Ser. An houre before I came, the Dutchesse di’de. 1053 Yor. Heau’n for his mercy, what a tide of woe... ...ountrimen: 2388 And thus still doing, thus he past along. 2389 Dutch. Alas poore Richard, where rides he the whilst? 2390 Yorke. ... ... breath, 2572 The Traitor liues, the true man’s put to death. 2573 Dutchesse within. 2574 Dut. What hoa (my Liege) for heauens sake l... ...ound, 2586 This let alone, will all the rest confound. 2587 Enter Dutchesse. 2588 Dut. O King, beleeue not this hard- hearted man, 2...

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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... ...this lost rock at the extrem- ity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sail- ors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn. The course w... ... 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 ...

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...yes at the present moment brought to bear upon you, have seen you dig up a Dutch bottle.’ ‘It was mine, Wegg,’ protested Mr Boffin. ‘I put it there my... ...times might have issued her directions to equal purpose in the Kamskatchan language. In any crisis of this nature, Bella would suddenly exclaim aloud,... ...nd there being a feeling thrown into it. But the groundwork is gin.’ ‘In a Dutch bottle?’ said Wegg gloomily, as he sat himself down. ‘V ery good, sir... ...or leave to knock your brains out. Listen, you scoundrel, and look at that Dutch bottle.’ Sloppy held it up, for his edification. ‘That Dutch bottle, ... ...ing me, and my sister (then already dead of a broken heart), by name. That Dutch bottle was found by my noble benefactor and yours, 160 Our Mutual Fr... ...Mutual Friend – V ol. 4 after he entered on possession of the estate. That Dutch bottle distressed him beyond measure, because, though I and my sister... ...ce the country , the illegality is quite equal to the inhumanity—and known language could say no more of their lawlessness. On Friday the Ninth of Jun...

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...one, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve, and by that age, what wit... ...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... ...chieve its dream of imperial ex- pansion, and its imposition of the German language upon a forcibly united Europe. These were the three most spirited ... ...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... ...and sa- luted and took the note, not caring to betray his ignorance of the language. He started off with a bright air of knowing his way and turned a ... ...d. “Pickled Sammin!” 248 The War in the Air he whispered, “an’ vinegar …. Dutch cheese, beer! A pipe of terbakker.” “But ‘OW did the people get kille...

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...ough the dirtiest you would wish to see, and he muddled me up with foreign languages worse than the tower of Babel. That was one employment we had, an... ...e matter of much talk. They got on well after the first with the T ahitian language, which is indeed like to the Hawaiian, with a change of cer- tain ... ...d burned down. All tongues of the earth were spoken there; the French, the Dutch, the Russian, the Tamil, the Chinese. Whatever land knew sorcery, the...

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...e Eastern waters, a screed traced in obso- lete words—in a half-for-gotten language. IV REVOLVING THESE THOUGHTS, he strolled on near the rail- ings o... ...g Malay uplifted and long-drawn declared the depth of the water in his own language. “Tiga stengah,” he cried after each splash and pause, gathering t... ...rdam Courant, the Graphic in its world-wide green wrappers, an illustrated Dutch publication without a cover, the numbers of a Ger- man magazine with ... ...ed hastily from side to side, puffed out his cheeks, suffocated. “Stuck up Dutchman!” And he moaned out feverishly a long tale of griefs. The efforts ... ...He stumbled across a grating and swore. He would not hesitate to fling the Dutchman’s correspondence overboard—the whole confounded bundle. He had nev... ...ing up the sponge. The skipper could go ashore quietly, and stay with that Dutch- man of his. Weren’t these two as thick as thieves to- gether? And on... ...after parting with him, he remarked to an acquaintance— “Queer person that Dutch tobacco-planter from Batu Beru. Know anything of him?” “Heaps of mone...

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... omit, as well as some digressions, but leave the rest in Patrick Walker’s language and orthography:– ‘The never to be forgotten Mr. James Renwick tol... ...eck of de- tected sinners, and the historical Louping-on Stane, from which Dutch-built lairds and farmers climbed into the saddle. Here Prince Charlie...

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...ed so English—yet he might be—he might perhaps be Danish, Scandinavian, or Dutch. Therefore, the elegant young man watched and listened with all his e... ...l Right!” This is the pith, the marrow, the sum and essence of the English language to a southerner. Of course it is not all right. 191 D. H. Lawrenc... ... and found himself alone next a group of women, mostly Swedes or Danish or Dutch, drinking a peculiar brown herb-brew which tasted like nothing else o... ...k, mind- ful silence and inflection of the cypress trees, lost races, lost language, lost human ways of feeling and of knowing. Men have known as we c... ...d woman, sat. Therefore he entered, and though he could not understand the language, still his second self understood. The cave was a house: and men c... ...irst stake, the boatmen all uttered a strange cry of warning, in a foreign language. The flesh-and- blood Aaron seemed not even to hear. The invisible...

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...n, Baluch, and others Religion: 74% Sunni Muslim, 25% Shi'a Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (pr... ... (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% thirty minor languages (primarily Baluchi and Pashai); much bilingualism Life expectan... ... religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Infant mortality r... ...opean Religion: 99% Sunni Muslim (state reli- gion); 1% Christian and Jewish Language: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Infant mortality rat... ...es- tant; also small Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, and Jewish minority Language: Dutch (official), Papiamento (a Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English dia- ... ...nde- pendence from the Netherlands is granted in 1996 Legal system: based on Dutch civil law system, with some English common law influence Government... ... Roman Catholic; remainder Protestant, none, or other Language: 56% Flemish (Dutch), 32% French, 1% German; 11% legally bilingual; divided along ethni... ...rative divisions: 10 administra- tive districts Legal system: based on Roman-Dutch law and local customary law; constitution came into effect 1966; ju... ... Legal system: based on English common law with certain admixtures of Roman- Dutch law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction National holiday:...

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... sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman -- The crimes for which he suffers -- In pursuit of the spectr... ...ly ship -- Real spectres of the sea -- Why the spectre ship was commanded by a Dutchman -- Dying superstition 81-89 CHAPTER VII. Marco Polo's visit to... ...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... ...he commonly accepted version of the story is that given by Jal: An unbelieving Dutch captain, endeavoring to double Cape Horn against the force of a h... ...to sail the sea, the evil genius of sailors. Thus the appearance of the Flying Dutchman is ever dreaded as the fore- runner of disaster. O'Reilly sing... ...their destined port, they'll see their homes no more; They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore." IN PURSUIT OF THE SPECTRAL SHIP... ... 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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... retaliation, Atomic Energy Minister, Alexander Rumyantsev, exposed an Anglo-German-Dutch deal with the Iranians, which, he said, included the sale ... .... According to the Observer, hence much of the haggling in the United Nations over language and America's freedom of action. Even more crucially, R... ...ey is, plausibly, anti-Arab. Turkish security officials confirmed to the English- language daily, Turkish Daily News, in March last year, that Tur... ...the pending contracts are with Russian firms ($52 billion) but the French, Chinese, Dutch, United Arab Emirates and Egyptians have also inked agreem...

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...own independence by a revolution. In that revolution the most important military step was the siege of Antwerp, which was defended on the part of the Dutch by General Chasse, with the utmost gallantry, but nevertheless ineffectually....

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...itary step was the siege of Antwerp, which was defended on the part of the Dutch by General Chasse, with the utmost gallantry, but neverthe- less inef... ...at Antwerp world. There was no other wretched being wandering then in that Dutch town so utterly denuded of the goods of life. For what is a man fit,—... ...ope a pair of black—.” The whole truth was told in the plain- est possible language. “Oh, Aunt Sally!” “Aunt Sally, how can you?” “Hold your tongue, A...

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...d Their Meaning EDITH WHARTON 1919 DjVu Editions Copyright © 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition o... ...n question knew the Germans at home, in our home, where they had to talk our language or not get on, where they had to be what we wanted them to be—or... ...etches of this heritage that have been too long allowed to run to waste: our language, our literature, and many other things pertaining to the great u... ...rown to create a stan dard of French speech: “To establish the rules of the language, and make French not only elegant, but capable of dealing with t... ...ieu was national unit,” and “The Forty do not believe that they can keep the language under discipline by merely publishing a Dictionary now and then ... ...ould not count in our artistic and social inheritance, since the English and Dutch colonists found only a wilderness peopled by savages, who had kept ... ...long continuance and a race that has had a recent beginning. The English and Dutch settlers of North America no doubt carried many things with them, s...

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...ope are in possession, firstly, of highly developed terri- tories of alien language and race, such as Egypt; and, sec- ondly, of barbaric and less-dev... ...ts and patches, or Dalmatia, where one extremely self-conscious nation and language is present in the towns and another in the surrounding country, or... ...and would be the most convenient—while the war will still be going on. The Dutch conference would be in immediate contact by telephone and telegraph w... ...still owes and intends to pay that original debt; but if you translate the language of £.s.d. into realities, you will find that in loaves or iron or ... ...ish, and of Ancient Greek by teachers who at best half know this fine lost language. They do not expect any real mastery of either tongue by their stu... ...n- glish in the case of the French and Russians, are essentially governess languages; any intelligent boy or girl from a rea- sonably prosperous home ... ...ish was in the same way very clearly done under compulsion, first lest the Dutch or French should exploit the vast resources of the pen- insula agains... ...ptist insurrection was no mean thing in rebellions, and the history of the Dutch, who are, after all, only the extreme expression of the Low Ger- man ...

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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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...at us, there ensued a curi- ous exhibition that would be termed, in simple language, writing to the newspapers, for it took the outward form of letter... ...st be individual, distinctive, Nevil Beauchamp’s, though not in his native language. First he tried his letter in French, and lost sight of himself co... ...ended to say. The lady conscientiously did her utmost to reconcile the two languages. She softened his downrightness, passed with approval his complim... ...gh her brother. His French name rescued him from foreignness. He spoke her language with a piquant accent, unlike the pitiable English. Unlike them, h... ...ow,’ said Nevil, brooding on the fin- ished tone and womanly aplomb of her language. It made him forget that she was a girl entrusted to his guardians... ...y. I never saw anything like it.’ ‘That repartee wouldn’t have done with a Dutchman or a T orbay trawler,’ said Stukely Culbrett. ‘But let us hear mor... ...that is, those views are out of politics; they are matters for the police. Dutch dykes are built to shut away the sea from cultivated land, and of cou... ...sea from cultivated land, and of course it’s a part of the business of the Dutch Government to keep up the dykes,—and of ours to guard against the mob...

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...anchor. Now, an anchor is never cast, and to take a liberty with technical language is a crime against the clearness, precision, and beauty of perfect... ...hor is a forged piece of iron, admirably adapted to its end, and technical language is an in- strument wrought into perfection by ages of experi- ence... ...or’s phrase which has all the force, precision, and imag- ery of technical language that, created by simple men with keen eyes for the real aspect of ... ...ful awakening of the ship herself, till then, in the picturesque phrase of Dutch seamen, “lying asleep upon her iron.” For a ship with her sails furle... ...re must have been many open mouths and following eyes on board those ships—Dutch, English, with a sprin- kling of Americans and a German or two—who ha... ... ten fathoms of water. Ultimately they brought us up with the jibboom of a Dutch brig poking through our spanker—noth- ing worse. And a miss is as goo... ...be a little private ship’s storm going on in which you could detect strong language, pronounced in a tone of passion and exculpatory protestations utt... ... to by a snuffy and mop-headed, inconceivably dirty, and weirdly toothless Dutch ship-keeper, who could hardly speak three words of English, but who m... ... ap- pointed chief mate for the first time in his life would have let that Dutch tenacious winter penetrate into his heart. I think that in those days...

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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... ...et Norman sailors, they fell upon each other tooth and nail. The Irish and Dutch sail Charles Dickens 163 ors took part with the English; the French... ...ns that even she could only explain in unintelligible jargon. The other, a Dutch man, named Von Paris, who practised as a surgeon in Lon don. Edwar... ...their recol A Child’s Histroy of England 334 lection, a great Protestant Dutch hero, the Prince of Orange , was shot by an assassin, who confessed ... ... he had been kept and trained for the purpose in a college of Jesuits. The Dutch, in this surprise and distress, offered to make Elizabeth their sover... ...ighting with any foreign enemy went, but for getting into trouble with the Dutch, who in the spring of the year one thousand six hundred and fifty one...

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...glish accent.” The man who pitied me spoke, so far as I was concerned, the language of thieves. And they all do. Where we put the accent forward they ... ...knows his vernacular. And a French-man is French because he speaks his own language. But the American has no language. He is dialect, slang, provincia... ... And yet it was not altogether French. A dry grimness of treatment, almost Dutch, marked the difference. The men painted as they spoke—with certainty.... ..., as every intelligent American should. The papers tell their clientele in language fitted to their comprehension that the snarling together of telegr...

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... like German swear-words. However, as I’ve said, I’m not familiar with the language, and Hermann’s soft, round-eyed countenance remained unchanged. St... ...ing chock.” And then, with enthusiasm, “Oh! Look! Look! sir, Look! at them Dutchmen skipping out of the way on the forecastle. I hope to goodness he’l... ...y of Falk. I was engaged just then in eating despondently a piece of stale Dutch cheese, being too much crushed to care what I swallowed myself, let a... ... interview Falk in his private office. He was a man who could speak like a Dutch Uncle, and, besides, Messrs. Siegers had been helping Falk with a goo... ...He chuckled at his joke. “A regular chucker-out. Now he has fired out that Dutchman head over heels, I suppose our turn’s coming tomorrow morning.” We... ...said “Fferie strantch.” Combined with the bellowing intonation it made the language of one’s childhood sound weirdly startling, and even if considered... ...y terror and hope, its mute and unhearing heaven?— the fable of the Flying Dutchman with its convention of crime and its sentimental retribution fades...

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...Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . ... ... wait vpon your Grace. Exeunt. Scena Secunda. 1271 Enter the old Dutchesse of Yorke, with the two 1272 children of Clarence. 1273 ... .... 1273 Edw. Good Grandam tell vs, is our Father dead? 1274 Dutch. No Boy. 1275 Daugh. Why do weepe so oft? And beate your Bres... ...ta. 1486 Enter Arch- bishop, yong Yorke, the Queene, 1487 and the Dutchesse. 1488 Arch. Last night I heard they lay at Stony Stratfor... ... 2778 Withdraw thee wretched Margaret, who comes heere? 2779 Enter Dutchesse and Queene. 2780 Qu. Ah my poore Princes! ah my tender B...

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...This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand history of the Buccaneers of America was soon transla...

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...s, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language shapers on other shores, Nations once powerful, now reduced, wit... ...eeping, love looks, love perturbations and risings, The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud, Food, drink, pulse, digestion, swea... ...or koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality! You dwarf’d Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp! Y... ...phies, manifold, different, distant, Rounded by thee in one—one common orbic language, One common indivisible destiny for All. And by the spells which... ...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... ...hey warmly welcome him, he is barefoot again, he forgets he is well off, The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welshman voyage home, and th... ...on her destination”—these the last words—when Jenny came, he sat there dead, Dutch Kossabone, Old Salt, related on my mother’s side, far back. Leaves ...

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..., and it did wonders as Peroo leaped from gunnel to gun- nel, shouting the language of the sea. Findlayson was more troubled for the stone-boats than ... ... brother. There’s no doubt thinkin’ broadens the horizons o’ the mind. His language is quite lofty.” “Hesh, sis,” Nip answered. “He hain’t widened not... ...’s Work Servia said, “Haw!” and the Kaiser and the Werkendam said, “Hoch!” Dutch fashion—and that was absolutely all. “I did my best,” said the Steam,... ...randfather of our John, went into his country, lived with him, learned his language, shot the deer that stole his poor crops, and won his confidence, ... ...ccinator, with lancets, lymph, and an officially regis- tered calf. In the language of State, they had “manifested a strong objection to all prophylac... ...s—or on the polo-ground, or in the high-walled fives- court, hotter than a Dutch oven. Half a dozen grooms, squat- ted at the heads of their ponies, w... ...s of their apprenticeship they had come by that road from Bombay. Then the languages in which the names of the sta- tions were written changed, and th... ...aid proudly. “Can’t get all them twelve on to the flat. Break ‘em in half, Dutchy!” cried Poney. But it was 007 who was backed down to the last six c... ...acred and Imperial chow-chow that perfumed the room. McPhee gets it from a Dutchman in Java, and I think he doctors it with liqueurs. But the crown of...

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...nging away the glass to shivers: ‘There’s to the T urncoat!’ He salted his language in a manner I cannot repeat; no epithet ever stood by itself. When... ...s heart. He sprang forward, he stopped and threw up his head. It was human language to hear him, Chillon. He lay in the yard, trying to lift his eyes ... ...g a royal palace—and mark- ing out the site—raving about it in the wildest language, po- etical if it had been a little reasonable—and then, after a n... ...wilights; and his heart sprang into his brain to picture the novel beauty; language became a flushed Bacchanal in a ring of dancing similes. Lying bes... ...r mediaeval Enemy sat symbolical in his deformities, as in old Italian and Dutch thick-line engravings of him. He rolled a ball for souls, excited lik... ...try; of its history, when at home, of its mountains, when exiled: and in a language like hers, bare of superlatives to signify an ardour conveyed by t...

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...dinary in- telligent Frenchman the thing is altogether incomprehen- sible. Language, it may be said, has much to do with that. But an American speaks ... ... and American fellowship.” This I found to be unfair, and in what politest language I could use I said so. I had not any special knowledge of the mind... ... villages and on the small farms the French still remain, keeping up their language, their habits, and their religion. In the cities they are becoming... ... people of Upper or English Canada, differed much more in their habits and language than they do now. I do not know that the English have become in an... ...rtue. “It behoves a frontier man to be smart, sir.” Such, in that or other language, has been the prevail- ing idea. Such is the prevailing idea. And ... ...ring the others. This State, now called New York, was first settled by the Dutch in 1614, on Manhattan Island. They established a government in 1629, ... ...try on his behalf by one Colonel Nichols. In 1673 it was recaptured by the Dutch, but they could not hold it, and the Duke of York again took possessi...

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...coffer, likewise inlaid, stood against the wall, and near it a cabinet, of Dutch workmanship, a combina- tion of ebony, ivory, wood, and looking-glass... ...asy. Mr. Adderley thought he knew French very well, through books, but the language he spoke was not available, and he soon fell into a state of bewil... ...t is your comedy, Madame; I meddle not.’ The Austrian priest had no common language with Berenger but Latin. He asked a few questions, and on hear- in... ...r him in his adopted tongue, then not vulgarized, but the tenderest in the language, ‘Sweet heart.’ That was all, but to him they conveyed constancy t... ... itself at first was gone, and even when he improved enough to establish a language of signs with eye, lip, or left hand, Cecily became convinced that... ...licking-looking men, their dress profusely adorned with ribbons, and their language full of strange oaths. They were well known at La Sablerie as sail...

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... for his uncle’s favor. Thomas had served with the Em- peror, and with the Dutch, when King Charles was compelled to lend troops to the States; and ag... ...s a Frenchman; his name was Blaise. The child could talk to him in his own language perfectly well: he knew it better than English indeed, having live... ...her and relations at Ealing; what his old grandfather had taught him; what languages he knew; whether he could read and write, and sing, and so forth.... ...anging hands whilst my lord and lady were away. King James was flying, the Dutchmen were coming; awful stories about them and the Prince of Orange use... ... lieve that there was a word of truth in the promises of tolera- tion that Dutch monster made, or in a single word the perjured wretch said. My lord a... ...times in the day). “Let the tyrant of Orange bring his rack and his odious Dutch tortures—the beast! the wretch! 48 Henry Esmond I spit upon him and ... ...e to come in with their tenants and adher- ents to Newbury, march upon the Dutch troops at Reading under Ginckel; and, these overthrown, and their ind... ...heir perplexity. “What are these?” says one. “They’re written in a foreign language,” says the lawyer. “What are you laughing at, little whelp?” adds ... ...at chair on which he was sitting between him and her— saying in the French language to Lady Castlewood, with whom the young lad had read much, and who...

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...e dazzling objects to show but slightly; all things, as in pictures of the Dutch school, looked brown, even the faces. Between the shop and this livin... ...e, he glanced at the girl before he turned to his host and said in his own language:— “Is that your daughter, signore?” Perez de Lagounia (such was th... ...ith Genoa, Florence, and Livorno; he knew Italian, and replied in the same language:— “No; if she were my daughter I should take less precau- tions. T... ...se to noises significantly made from one floor to the other, an artificial language which all lovers know well how to create. But chance, or it may ha... .... Mio caro sposo!” she said, as if it were impossible to give in any other language the infinite tenderness, the lov- ing elegance with which the Ital... ...ccent clothe those delightful words. Besides, Italian was Juana’s maternal language. “I should find,” she continued, with a glance at Montefiore in wh...

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...ement of words. The logic that may be found there is only the logic of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people s... ...s gift came out—and it was seen then to be much more than mere felicity of language. His impressionism of phrase went really deeper than the surface. ... ...mply, the heights of in- spired vision. He wrote before the great American language was born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his time. If he ... ...es on Life and Letters tion, will find itself on awakening possessed of no language, a monstrous full-grown child having first to learn the ways of li... ...tion. Industrialism and commercialism—wearing high- sounding names in many languages (welt-politik may serve for one instance) picking up coins behind... ...esides myself, seventeen men all good and true, including a round enormous Dutch- man who, in those hours between sunset and sunrise, managed to lose ... ... hair’s- breadth escape into Italy; and, reaching Genoa, took passage in a Dutch mail steamer, homeward-bound from Java with London as a port of call....

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... 15 Friedrich Schiller support. The differences of government, of laws, of language, of manners, and of character, which hitherto had kept whole natio... ...tered by the unreformed party. However of- ten, and in however threatening language the Estates renewed their remonstrances, the Em- peror persisted i... ...- federate states, dispirited, and singly, little feared, adopted a bolder language. Through Prince Christian of Anhalt, they laid their com- mon grie... ...esentatives of both parties met in Vienna, when the Austrian deputies held language which would have excited surprise even in the English Parliament. ... ...ught to propitiate by embrac- ing the Calvinist religion. Both Spanish and Dutch armies appeared, but, as it seemed, only to make conquests for themse... ...d on adoration. Denmark and Sweden, Holland and Venice, and several of the Dutch states, acknowledged him as lawful sov- ereign, and Frederick now pre... ...g waited in vain for a master willing to purchase their services; till the Dutch, pressed by the Spanish General Spinola, offered to take them into pa... ...atched Tilly across the Elbe, to watch, as he gave out, the motions of the Dutch in that quarter; but in reality that he might terminate the war again... ... so, as the important city of Cologne upon the Rhine was threatened by the Dutch, while the progress of the enemy in Westphalia and the Lower Rhine ca...

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...her once handsome face, but only for a mo- ment; then she smiled again and dutched Prince V asili’s arm more tightly. “Listen to me, Prince,” said she... ...ng out to the countess the most important people at the ball. “That is the Dutch ambassador, do you see? That gray- haired man,” she said, indicating ... ..., “because I have a detestation for all the French, and the same for their language which I cannot support to hear spoken.... We in Moscow are elated ... ...poleon wished to come to Moscow, grew angry, abused the French in very bad language, came out of the drink shop, and, under the sign of the eagle, beg... ... their own volition. The whole army—French, Ital- ian, German, Polish, and Dutch—hungry, ragged, and weary of the campaign, felt at the sight of an ar... ...olitans. The Imperial army, strictly speaking, was one third com- posed of Dutch, Belgians, men from the borders of the Rhine, Piedmontese, Swiss, Gen... ...a position j’ai des devoirs,”* said Helene changing from Russian, in which language she always felt that her case did not sound quite clear, into Fren... ...rs formed of him soon after his arrival at the shed. With his knowledge of languages, the re- spect shown him by the French, his simplicity, his readi... ...racteristic of genius. Even that final running away, described in ordinary language as the lowest depth of baseness which every child is taught to be ...

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..., “because I have a detestation for all the French, and the same for their language which I cannot sup- port to hear spoken…. We in Moscow are elated ... ...by their own volition. The whole army—French, Italian, German, Polish, and Dutch—hungry, ragged, and weary of the cam- paign, felt at the sight of an ... ...apolitans. The Imperial army, strictly speaking, was one third composed of Dutch, Belgians, men from the borders of the Rhine, Piedmontese, Swiss, Gen...

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...In *1881. 6 Robert Louis Stevenson French colonies, and still more in the Dutch, I have read that there is an immediate and lively contact between th... ...stance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials with the English – of which I will go b... ... and a half ago the Highlander wore a different costume, spoke a different language, worshipped in another church, held dif- ferent morals, and obeyed... ...trick. They had been in Ireland, stationed among men of their own race and language, where they were well liked and treated with affec- tion; but it w... ...ga- tive from nearer home. Is it common education, common morals, a common language or a common faith, that join men into nations? There were practica... ...are considering. The fact remains: in spite of the difference of blood and language, the Lowlander feels himself the sentimental coun- tryman of the H... ...out French citadels, so may some officer marching his company of the Scots-Dutch among the polders, have felt the soft rains of the Hebrides upon his ... ...e music moving in my blood, I seemed to sit there and evaporate The flying Dutchman (for it was that I had been hearing) with a wonderful sense of lif... ...nd as quiet! But my paper is running out; the siege guns are firing on the Dutch frontier; and I must say adieu for the fifth time to my old comrade f...