... was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. The warrior-king was Charlemagne—in Latin, Carlos Magnus (742–814). He was of the Carolingian dynasty that co... ...terate populations in different regions to communicate with each other in Latin. It became the standard in Europe. Today, we take for granted i... ...ch improvements, here‘s a sentence in a pre-Carolingian format, though in Latin and without the helpful ascenders (on b, d, etc.) and descenders (on... ...o zero, but some mathematicians in the Middle Ages used the word ―nulla‖ (Latin for none) in their calculations. Imagine trying to use them to mul... ...idered the legionnaires‘ language to be their language. Known as ―vulgar‖ Latin, it was the speech of the middle class in most Roman provinces. Y... ... Hart, Mickey. Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion. San Francisco, CA: Harper San Francisco, 1990. Hayakawa, S....

...ic was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. The warrior-king was Charlemagne—in Latin, Carlos Magnus (742–814). He was of the Carolingian dynasty that co... ...terate populations in different regions to communicate with each other in Latin. It became the standard in Europe. Today, we take for granted its... ...ch improvements, here‘s a sentence in a pre-Carolingian format, though in Latin and without the helpful ascenders (on b, d, etc.) and descenders (on... ...o zero, but some mathematicians in the Middle Ages used the word ―nulla‖ (Latin for none) in their calculations. Imagine trying to use them to multi... ...idered the legionnaires‘ language to be their language. Known as ―vulgar‖ Latin, it was the speech of the middle class in most Roman provinces. Yet... ... Hart, Mickey. Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion. San Francisco, CA: Harper San Francisco, 1990. Hayakawa, S....

...This graveness of spirit which became known as gravity comes from the ancient Latin word ‘gravitas’. These swindles of misperception go all the way ... ...ccumulations of manipulated, separate notes? What is the origin of music but percussion, or the duplicated, repetitive sound of a tool hitting an o... ...ruments. By smashing and beating on hollow things with sticks and calling it percussion: so the reverberations inside the hollow drum are projected ... ...historical perspective on how sick and corrupt the origins of Science are: In Latin, the word ‘fact’ derives from the Latin word ‘Feces’: which mean... ..., the word ‘fact’ derives from the Latin word ‘Feces’: which means: shit. In Latin: the verb: ‘to think’, and the verb: ‘to excrete’ are the same w... ...ing their minds, hearts, bodies, musical instruments, props, costumes, music, percussion, loudness, noise… to impress to other people how important... ...ause of this. They did not have to have God’s words translated for them from Latin by lying hypocritical priests, Cardinals, bishops and Popes. But... ...l Killers. Except the ‘RE’ the verb was put at the end of the sentence as in Latin: Kill RE; not Kill ER… S, or X… X being the number Ten in Ro...

...ileau to Addison, and a pure compliment of cer- emony upon Addison’s early Latin verses, was (credite posteri!) the making of Addison in England. Unde... ...!) the making of Addison in England. Understand, Schlosser, that Addison’s Latin verses were never heard of by England, until long after his English p... ...ong after his English prose had fixed the public atten- tion upon him; his Latin reputation was a slight reaction from his English reputation: and, se... ...olars: or, if that would be saying too much, if two of the four had ‘small Latin and less Greek,’ they were generally connected with those who had mor... ...ected with those who had more, or at the worst, who had much reverence for Latin, and more reverence for Greek. If they did not all share in the servi... ...es, as Praxiteles, who could not well be represented with a Manon having a percussion lock, Chantrey is armed with a bow and arrows: ‘En! trajecit ave...

..., all right,” said Huckleberry, “it’s a trade.” Tom enclosed the tick in the percussion cap box that had lately been the pinchbug’s prison, and the bo... ... of gratitude that was prayer, though he did not know it. Then furtively the percussion cap box came out. He re leased the tick and put him on the lo... ... gems. Then there were reading exercises, and a spelling fight. The mea gre Latin class recited with honor. The prime feature of the evening was in ...

...t begotten by men, but are the product of women’s unnatural lusts in copu- lating with other creatures shall perish as the brute beasts by whom they w... ...ed them. The instrument of generation in men (commonly called the yard, in Latin, penis, from pendo, to hang, because it hangs outside the belly), is ... ...rves the matrix from cold and dust. The Greeks called it clitoris, and the Latins praeputium muliebre, because the Roman women abused these parts to s... ...CTION I.—Of the Womb. IN THIS CHAPTER I am to treat of the womb, which the Latins call matrix. Its parts are two; the mouth of the womb and the bottom... ...in of the air, and by consequence they make no noise, because a voice is a percussion of the air which is drawing. Of the Neck Q. Why hath a living cr...

...on to your Grace, to prefix your Name be fore them, both in English, and in Latine. For I doe conceive, that the Latine Volume of them, (being in the... ...ng: My Historie of Henry the Seventh, (which I have now also translated into Latine) and my Por tions of Naturall History, to the Prince: And these I... ...ay, some have been so curious, as to note, that the times when the stroke or percussion of an envious eye doth most hurt, are when the party envied is... ...e also to great ones, to keep them within bounds. This envy, being in the Latin word invidia, goeth in the modern language, by the name of disconte... ...ue hoc ipso hujus gentis et terrae domestico nativoque sensu Italos ipsos et Latinos; sed pietate, ac religione, atque hac una sapientia, quod deorum ... ...y of pic tures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas, ma gna solitudo; be... ...danger; as it is seen in ordnance and muskets. Secondly, the strength of the percussion; wherein likewise ordnance do exceed all arietations and ancie...

...the attached house, for “Somebody & Co.” was in the burning, and she sold us percussion caps, canal´ es and smooth, and knew their prices and qualitie... ...ing at all, merely keeping up the idea. He then said that he would sing us a Latin song; but we did not detect any Latin, only one or two Greek words ... ...etect any Latin, only one or two Greek words in it, — the rest may have been Latin with the Indian pronunciation. His singing carried me back to the p... ...le midge called the No see em ( Simulium nocivum, the latter word is not the Latin for no see em), especially over the sand at the water’s edge, for i...