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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volume wi...

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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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...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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...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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... 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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...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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..., parts of Poland, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Slovenia) have belonged to the Austro- Hungarian Empire, where German was the official language; - others (France, Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania and Italy) have annexed after World War I territories peopled at least in part by ethnic Germans; these were the German territories respectively Alsace and Lorraine f...

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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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...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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...Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . ... ...eunt. Scena Quinta. 314 Enter Philario, Iachimo: a Frenchman, a Dutch-man, 315 and a Spaniard. 316 Iach. Beleeue it Sir, I ha... ...e- end of my time. But, vp to’th’ Mountaines, 1633 This is not Hunters Language; he that strikes 1634 The Venison first, shall be the Lord o’t... ...ee 3592 Were nothing Prince- like; for he did prouoke me 3593 With Language that would make me spurne the Sea, 3594 If it could so roare t...

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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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...tion. These had spe- cious titles also, such as these: – ‘ An eminent High Dutch physician, newly come over from Holland, where he resided during all ... ...I remember that any one of those families miscarried. Among these, several Dutch mer- chants were particularly remarkable, who kept their houses like ... ...t unknown in person to two of them. They immediately fell upon me with ill language and oaths, asked me what I did out of my grave at such a time when... ... a moment destroy them. But that which was the worst in all their devilish language was, that they were not afraid to blaspheme God and talk atheistic... ...all upon my own private account, for they had given me a great deal of ill language too – I mean personally; but after some pause, and having a weight... ...have taken any course with me by law. Thomas. Y ou talk your old soldier’s language, as if you were 111 Daniel Defoe in the Low Countries now, but th... ...t our ships or corre- spond with us; indeed we stood on ill terms with the Dutch, and were in a furious war with them, but though in a bad condition t... ...ade could recover itself in those parts of the world; and the Flemings and Dutch (but especially the last) made very great advantages of it, having al... ...ept open, and particularly be- cause, as we were in an open war with I the Dutch at that time, the Dutch capers at first took a great many of our coll...

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...ht out the quarrel of William of Orange, who made us pay and fight for his Dutch provinces; or whether poor old Louis Quatorze did really frighten her... ...ded, entirely indiffer- ent about his birthplace; but speaking the English language, and having been during the course of his life pretty generally en... ...k, he produced from his neck a small locket (which had been given him by a Dutch lady at the Brill), and begged Miss Catherine to wear it for his sake... ...tenance at this event might judge of the progress of the irresistible High-Dutch conqueror. Being of a very vain communicative turn, our fair barmaid ... ...supper, she, pointing to the locket that once reposed on the breast of the Dutch lady at the Brill, looked archly on Hayes and said, “See, John, what ... ...!” and it W AS ventrebleu with him, I warrant you; for bleu, in the French language, means “through;” and ventre—why, you see, ventre means— CAPTAIN. ... ...ccasions when he condescended to walk abroad with her, and extravagance of language and passion in the frequent quarrels they had together. Perhaps in... ...t ear’ (and I can’t say, my dear, but what I have: it was done by a cursed Dutchman at the Boyne). ‘Tell me if he has not got C.R. in blue upon his ri... ...e shine as ye did in the olden days! WE change, but ye speak ever the same language. Gazing in your abysmal depths, the feeble ratioci—” * * *...

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...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... ...eadful high upon the Shore, and might well be call’d, Den wild Zee, as the Dutch call the Sea in a Storm. And now our Case was very dismal indeed; for... ... these I fill’d with Provision, viz. Bread, Rice, 36 ROBINSON CRUSOE three Dutch Cheeses, five Pieces of dry’d Goat’s Flesh, which we liv’d much upon, ... ...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... ... 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... ...t they were English Men; at least, most of them; one or two I thought were Dutch; but it did not prove so: There were in all eleven Men, whereof three... ...’d, and used him barbarously, in tying his Hands, and giving him injurious Language. However, the Captain told him he must lay down his Arms at Discre...

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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 ... ...s to thy ... Espouse the nation, you ... What can thy H— 103 ... Dress in Dutch ... 50 Tho... ...o’er ‘em lies Each gentle clerk, and, muttering, seals his eyes, As what a Dutchman plumps into the lakes, One circle first, and then a second makes; ... ...ght from Boeotian to Boeotian roll? 50 How many Dutchmen she vouchsafed to thrid? How many stages through old monks she rid... ...ip and spur, and dash’d through thin and thick On German Crousaz, 397 and Dutch Burgersdyck. As many quit the streams 398 that murmuring fall T o lu...

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...culars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might pos sibly in time come... ... of Think ing, by Messrs. du Port Royal. While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English grammar (I think it was Greenwood’s), at ... ...r getting into the Kill and drove us upon Long Island. In our way, a drunken Dutch man, who was a passenger too, fell overboard; when he was sinking,... ...him. It proved to be my old favorite author, Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, in Dutch, finely printed on good paper, with cop per cuts, a dress better t... ..., with cop per cuts, a dress better than I had ever seen it wear in its own language. I have since found that it has been trans lated into most of t... ... language. I have since found that it has been trans lated into most of the languages of Europe, and suppose it has been more generally read than any... ...I concluded to sleep, if we could; and so crowded into the scuttle, with the Dutchman, who was still wet, and the spray beating over the head of our b... ...want of rest, I was very hungry; and my whole stock of cash con sisted of a Dutch dollar, and about a shilling in copper. The latter I gave the peopl... ... the amusing one’s self with poetry now and then, so far as to improve one’s language, but no farther. On this it was propos’d that we should each of ...

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...ey are so only in appearance. The fact is that art is working far ahead of language as well as of science, realising for us, by all manner of suggesti... ... anything clear until we are able to formulate it in words, and analytical language has not been sufficiently shaped to that end. We all know this dif... ...s may be the impression that it has left with us; and it is only be- cause language is the medium of romance, that we are pre- vented from seeing that... ...ons of man to man, he has set before himself the task of realising, in the language of romance, much of the involu- tion of our complicated lives. Thi... ...elp Yoshida more practically than by simple countenance; for he could read Dutch, and was eager to communicate what he knew. 110 Robert Louis Stevens... ...spite of fate, and stayed awhile to pick up scraps of knowl- edge from the Dutch interpreters – a low class of men, but one that had opportunities; an... ...lready near at hand. Some of his work was done; for already there had been Dutch teachers admitted into Nangasaki, and the coun- try at large was keen... ... very midst of his bodyguard – not only held back pupils from going to the Dutchmen, but by spies and detectives, by imprisonment and death, kept thin... ...8, we find him writing to Evelyn, his mind bitterly occupied with the late Dutch war, and some thoughts of the different story of the repulse of the G...

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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...