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

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Languages, Children, Instruction, Teen/Young adult

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...how much hunger, and thirst, and hasty indiscretion! My own, is the dearest word of all languages, and one chief end of all restraints and punishment... ...d there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting ... ..., honor, and a kingdom, that in virtue of this investiture, all people, and tribes, and languages should serve him as their only and lawful sovereign... ...d there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: “but further on, in verse twent... ...which is under the whole heaven, for Christ and for his saints, all people, tribes, and languages, shall thenceforward serve him? “that all people, n... ... mystery of iniquity, there are still to remain on this earth, peoples, and tribes, and languages, to serve and obey the supreme King and his saints... ...served, it cannot be known nor understood how, or in what, all peoples, and tribes, and languages, can serve Jesus Christ, after he is come from hea... ...satisfied, by becoming universal king of the whole earth, with all peoples, tribes, and languages, subject to his sway, but he shall immediately ent... ...nd what is meant by the allegorical sense. As allegory and figure are two words of two languages, of one and the same signification; so allegorical ...

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...ry meaning at- tached to them, unless they can be illustrated from cognate languages. Now I have a taste for these things, and have in three weeks pro... ...now without doubt, that I have laid the foundation for a study of Oriental languages, if I have time and opportunity that may be fairly given to them.... ... and not say anything about it. I am heartily glad that you should acquire languages, modern as well as ancient. You know I have often pressed the for... ...owever, he was on his guard against, as he said, making the means the end. Languages were his pleasure, but a pleasure held in check as only sub- serv... ...” read last Vacation at Feniton; but I can’t deny that I like the study of languages for its own sake, though I apply my little experience in it wholl... ...all day in an arm-chair and reading “Pickwick.”.... One word about the way languages help me, that you may not think what I am doing harder than it re... ...at the Pass in the wil- derness. Consequently, in reading any one of these languages, the same word keeps on occurring in all; and the chief use is of... ...orders than he could in her home turmoils. His great and peculiar gifts of languages, seconded by his capacity for navigation, enabled him to be the b... ... once at Dresden. Whatever we have acquired in the way of accomplishments, languages, love of art and music, everything brings us into contact with so...

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...o unmentionable adjectives—in English. The man up there raged aloud in two languages, and with a sincerity in his fury that almost convinced me I had,... ...leep at last. I had faced the silence of the East. I had heard some of its languages. But when I opened my eyes again the silence was as complete as t...

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...’s for now.” “She’s beautifully educated,” said Miss Ruck. “She knows four languages.” “I am not very sure that I know English.” “You should go to Bos... ... me a very charming girl,” I rejoined. “And I learned that she speaks four languages.” “It is not only that,” said Mrs. Church, in a tone which sugges...

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...e distortions which must have resulted from transmission through two alien languages, the light of the thought still shone with such brightness that i... ...Mohun Roy brought out an English version. It has since appeared in various languages; and English, German and French writers are all agreed in pronoun...

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...ancing it. In youth he learned Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, also the oriental languages, with which he became so familiar that many distinguished scholar... ...ce gives many authentic in- 74 Seraphita stances of girls who have spoken languages entirely unknown to them.” “What can I do?” exclaimed Wilfrid. “S... ... than Number and Motion, you would see at once that we speak two different languages. I under- stand them both; you understand neither. “Suppose I add... ...eed beside the light which bathes a Seer. Cease, cease to question me; our languages are different. For a mo- ment I have used yours to cast, if it be... ...an woman,” said Monsieur Becker, “who at the age of twelve spoke forty-two languages, ancient and modern; also the history of that monk who could gues...

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...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...

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... secretary, and showing some handwriting of good quality. ‘Did he know any languages?’ ‘French, English, Latin, and some Greek.’ ‘And, Madame,’ added ... ...s yelling and howling, trampling and scuffling, then the sounds of strange languages in vituperation or command, steps coming down the ladder, sounds ... ...ith diplomatists all her life, and knew a little of the vernacular of most languages, and it was in Dutch—broken indeed, but still Dutch—that she decl... ... especially Lanty, who was much quicker than any of the rest in picking up languages, per- haps from having from his infancy talked French and En- gli...

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...table, had something to follow the demitasse, and, in the heat of familiar dis- cussion as to what they “really ought” to do, fell inevita- bly into t...

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...badly because the men who taught us did not habitually use either of these languages, nobody uses them any more now except perhaps for the Latin of a ... ...vantine monasteries. At the utmost our men read them. We were taught these languages because long ago Latin had been the language of civilisation; the... ...come in as the vehicle of a flood of new and amazing ideas. Once these two languages had been the sole means of initiation to the detached criticism a... ...nt at that time. So it was I occupied my mind with the exact study of dead languages for seven long years. It was the strangest of de- tachments. We w... ... new liberal education in this way, and cut the umbilicus of the classical languages for good and all. I should have set this going, and trusted it to... ...ich he had played and could judge, he hated all people who spoke for- eign languages because he knew no language but Stafford- shire, he hated all for... ...s read stories before of husband and wife speaking severally two different languages and coming to an understanding. But Margaret and I began in her d...

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...an champagne, had a marked and subduing effect on Harris. He believed she belonged to the royal family. But I had my doubts. We heard two or three dif... ...eeds of modern travel have cre- ated in every attractive spot on the continent. There was a great gathering at dinner, and, as usual, one heard all so... ...ry bad couriers; but I have also had dealings with one who might fairly be called perfection. He was a young Polander, named Joseph N. Verey. He spoke... ...niform; he can always be found when he is wanted, for he sticks closely to his post at the front door; he is as polite as a duke; he speaks from four ... ...in Spots. There, now, the reader can see for himself that this pro- noun business is a very awkward thing for the unaccustomed tongue. I suppose that ... ... etc. They think our ladies have the same custom, perhaps; for I once heard a gentle and lovely old German lady say to a sweet young American girl: “T... ...en, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among th...

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...own strength, to read fluently in 83 Thomas Carlyle almost all cultivated languages, on almost all subjects and sciences; farther, as man is ever the... ...n,” we are not without our anxiety. From private Tuition, in never so many languages and sciences, the aid derivable is small; neither, to use his own... ...Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying. Unknown Languages have I oftenest gathered from their natural repertory, the Air, b...

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...shoulder his hand was laid some- times as they strolled and chatted in two languages. He re- ally went a long way to make French fellows popular, and ... ...here’ll be a “general rabble tongue,” unless we English are drilled in the languages we filched from. Lots of lords and ladies want the drilling, then... ...gymnas- tic fixtures, carpenter’s shed, bowling alley, and four Euro- pean languages in the air by turns daily; and the boys, too, all the boys rosy a... ...ay- ground: exactly the reverse of what should have been. A school of four languages in bracing air, if a school with healthy dor- mitories, and a sch...

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...whether German, French, or English, and her own knowledge of the two first languages was better for reading than for speaking; so after an awkward att... ... hear- ing lessons, in which Ida was governess, and made them talk so many languages that Annie was alarmed. Of course one of the young ladies was ver...

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... to a variety of countries; but the old land is still the true love, the others are but pleasant infidelities. Scotland is indefinable; it has no unit...

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...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...

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...y seem to have given little attention to the various theoretical universal languages which were proposed to them. They wished to give as little troubl... ...e thing. Research had produced a chaotic mountain of results, in a hundred languages and a thousand different types of publi- cation… .’ He smiled at ...

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... grandmother, and he had thus missed all chance of foun- dation of foreign languages, and when once at school, he had shared in the average English bo... ...ys! I don’t see why Kirkaldy can’t do the same.’ ‘Not unless I had foreign languages at my tongue’s end.’ Whereat the Canon groaned, and Mark had to w... ...te with alarm and wrath. ‘Sir,’ cried Gregorio, with a stammering of mixed languages, ‘I have been searching everywhere! I was going to give notice to...