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...rris was in sympathy with me in this. He was as much of an enthusiast in art as I was, and not less anxious to learn to paint. I desired to learn the ... ...n bright eye fixed on me; then he threw out two or three more insults, which I could not understand, further than that I knew a portion of them consis... ...nd some use only simple words, and scarcely ever a comparison or a flowery figure; whereas, certain other animals have a large vocabulary, a fine comm... ...y other creature. He has got more moods, and more different kinds of feelings than other creatures; and, mind you, whatever a bluejay feels, he can pu... ...nguage. And no mere commonplace language, either, but rattling, out-and-out book-talk—and bristling with metaphor, too—just bristling! And as for comm... ...ld be a well-stocked Communist graveyard in Paris which would answer just as well to remember the 10th of August by. Martyrdom made a saint of Mary Qu...

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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... ...Queen and Somerset have their way ’tis all misrule, and who knows what the Scots may do?” “There are Nevils and Dacres enough between Whitburn and the... ...of Whitburn was anxious to get home again, never being quite sure what the Scots, or the Percies, or his kinsmen of Gilsland, might attempt in his abs... ...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... ... 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... ...he jewels and gold blazed as we never saw the like—and as to the rascaille Scots archers, every one of them was arrayed so as the sight was enough to ... ...ay; I did not stir or strive to join the Queen when last she called up the Scots—the Scots indeed!—to aid her. I could not join them in a foray on Eng... ...n her son is of age to bear arms; but my spirit rises against allies among Scots or French, and I cannot think it well to bring back bloodshed and sla...

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...neeled down and cried, “Oa, Oa, W aramokoa,” and some other words of their language, which none of the others understood anything of; but as they made... ...ccess to these poor people, seeing he did not understand one word of their language, nor they one of his. T o remove this difficulty, I told him Frida... ...th a sash round it, he did not look very unlike a minister; and as for his language, I was his interpreter. But the serious- ness of his behaviour to ... ...ing, I made Friday go out upon the deck, and call out aloud to them in his language, to know what they meant. Whether they understood him or not, that... ...some were Livonians; and to our particular satisfaction, five of them were Scots, who appeared also to be men of great experience in business, and of ... ...t a mile distance; but our work was over first, as it happened. One of the Scots merchants of Moscow happened to be amongst us; and as soon as he hear... ...pon and adored; and it made my soul rejoice to see it. I saluted the brave Scots mer- chant with my first acknowledgment of this; and taking him by th... ... some leisure here to put my design in execution. I communicated it to the Scots merchant, of whose courage I had sufficient testimony; I told him wha... ...all that day to put my project in execution; and that evening, meeting the Scots merchant in our walk about the town, I again called upon him to aid m...

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...f imposition. At length he seemed determined in what manner to receive the language of his new companion. “You are,” he said, “of a nation that loves ... ...ilitary hardihood and care- less frankness of expression characterized his language and his motions; and his voice had the tone of one more accus- tom... ...sive thirst than I have this day experienced.” “It is called in the Arabic language,” answered the Saracen, “by a name which signifies the Diamond of ... ...que at his saddle-bow, and substituted the light riding-cap, termed in the language of the time a mortier, from its resemblance in shape to an ordinar... ...as sovereign of Scotland, the Crescent might, for me, and all true-hearted Scots, glimmer for ever on the walls of Zion.” Thus far he had proceeded, w... ...her of love or of dislike, he accounted the fair-spoken courtesy which the Scots had learned, either from imitation of their frequent allies, 88 The ... ...ther the Lord of Gilsland esteemed him a gentleman and a good knight. “All Scots are ennobled by their birthright,” answered Tho- mas de Vaux, somethi... ...say, my lord,” replied the jealous Borderer. “I live a little too near the Scots to gather much truth among them, having found them ever fair and fals... ... had induced many of the soldiery to get on foot to listen. The handful of Scots were also quar- tered in the vicinity, nor had they been disturbed by...

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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... ...esas. There is the place for him to go when he shall be weary of Middlesex and Homer. It was perhaps yet more important that I had enjoyed in my youth... ...a 11 Robert Louis Stevenson Marquesan Ha’e Kaoha The elision of medial consonants, so marked in these Marquesan instances, is no less common both in ... ...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... ...s no sign of emotion in Terutak’ as he returned them, pointed to the palace, and named Tembinok’. It was a changed scene when I had managed to explain...

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...u :— “If anybody asks who said this, who put this history into the Romance language, I say and I will say to him that I am Wace of the isle of Jersey,... ...hts moved, and his mind dwelt on her national epic heroes. Not only in his language, which belongs to the period of transition from Anglo Saxon to Mid... ... p. 79, note 1; Modern Philology , I., 5 8; Pub lications of the Modern Language Association of America , XXV ., 25 ff. See also the notes on the l... ...re , VII. (Boston, 1900), 183 ff.; L.F . Mott, Publications of the Modern Language Asso ciation of America, XX, 231 ff.; J.L. Weston, as above (p. x... ...h profit, for by His aid and yours, I look to destroy these same Picts and Scots. For from that land come and return these thieves who so harass and d... ...tway beyond the Humber. He purposed to crave such aid and succour from the Scots as would help him in his need, and made haste to get him to Scotland ... ...and captain of these Sax ons since the slaying of Octa—had many Picts and Scots in his fellowship, besides a goodly company of his own people. He des... ...f turned his face to Scotland; for a messenger came who told that the wild Scots held Hoel close within his city, and for a little would take him wher... ...oel safe in body and in wealth, and altogether whole of his infirmity. The Scots had departed from before the city when they heard that Arthur drew ne...

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...n—1898 Edition. CHAPTER I—A TALE OF A LION RAMPANT IT WA S IN THE MONTH of May 1813 that I was so unlucky as to fall at last into the hands of the ene... ...erchandise, and an air of youth in particu- lar (as it appealed to the sentiment of pity in our visitors) to be a source of profit. Others again enjoy... ...nd as for the impulse that had made her bring and introduce him, I could not sufficiently admire it. It seemed to me finer than wit, and more tender t... ...observing me from a dis- tance, for a sparrow sat betwixt us quite unalarmed on the breech of a piece of cannon. So soon as our eyes met, he drew near... ...I trust, madam, not less,’ said I. ‘Well,’ said she, ‘at this rate the matter may be feasible. I will cash one of these five-guinea bills, less the ex... ...or a person easily alarmed; but you must admit there is something barbarous and medi- aeval in the sound well qualified to startle a poor foreigner.’ ... ...ble; till I remembered there was a town so called in the province of Cornwall, thought I might yet be glad to claim it for my place of origin, and dec... ...ork, did not shun the bowl, and took part, so far as I was able, in the continual fire of pleasantry with which the meal was sea- soned. Greatly darin... ...ts- men, to tell Sim’s Tale of Tweedie’s dog; and I was held to have done such extraordinary justice to the dialect, ‘for a Southron,’ that I was imme...

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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... ...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... ... 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... ... said he, “I tell you this, because I come from your country.” Hail, brither Scots! His most important hint was on the moneys of this part of the worl... ...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 ... ... of the streets. It was difficult to get along without a word or two of that language for an occasion. The only com- munications in which the populati...

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...od. “Were you surprised?” “Surprised? No! What would I be surprised about? What did I know about petrifactions – following the sea? Pet- rifaction! Th... ...early all his sailing in Scotch ships. “Out of Glasgow,” said he, “or Greenock; but that’s all the same – they all hail from Glasgow.” And he was so p... ... 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... ...y of the wise and good, can repay me for my ab- sence from my country. And though I think I would rather die elsewhere, yet in my heart of hearts I lo... ...d by her admirers; all evening, it appeared, they had been triumphing to- gether in the girl’s innocent successes, and to this natural and unselfish j... ...sheep, but, regarded as an artist’s model, the exterior of a Greek God. It was a cruel thought to persons less favoured in their birth, that this crea... ... the snakes, you could see clearly where you trod; and yet the higher I went, the more abject and appealing became Chuchu’s terror. He was an excellen...

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... the hostile blood of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons, or to unite, by common language and mutual interests, two hos- tile races, one of which still felt... ...ere the pomp and state of a court was emulated, Norman-French was the only language employed; in courts of law, the pleadings and judgments were deliv... ... from this necessity arose by degrees the structure of our present English language, in which the speech of the victors and the vanquished have been s... ...ich has since been so richly improved by im- portations from the classical languages, and from those spo- ken by the southern nations of Europe. This ... ...respect for his supposed learning; and the grav- ity of his deportment and language, with the high tone which he exerted in setting forth the authorit... ...ion of the unfortunate Comendator, under the surety of two thousand pounds Scots. The Earl was appointed also to keep the peace towards the celebrated... ..., you may remember, two-fold. You insisted upon the advan- tages which the Scotsman possessed, from the very recent ex- istence of that state of socie... ...viscera where the disease holds its seat. T ell this not in Gath, lest the Scots rejoice that they have at length found a parallel instance among thei...

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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... ...w perceive they steal; Till, like the sea, they compass all the land, From Scots to Wight, from Mount to Dover strand: And when rank widows purchase l... ...ent you to the devil; A tongue, that can cheat widows, cancel scores, Make Scots speak treason, cozen subtlest whores, With royal favourites in flatte...

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...subjects, and ill hus- bands to their wives though not their properties. Tales of them were rife for twenty miles about; and their name was even print... ...ich he was quite unprepared: he would have been quite unprepared to learn that Kirstie hated him. He thought maid and master were well matched; hard, ... ...his age the difficulty grew more instant. The man was mostly silent; when he spoke at all, it was to speak of the things of the world, always in a wor... ...e wayside, spied Kirstie Elliott waiting. She was dissolved in tears, and addressed him in the high, false note of barbarous mourning, such as still l... ...he wild cats. One after another closed his ob- scure adventures in mid-air, triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron’s dule-tree. For the... ...any time from eight at night till five in the morning, and in any condition from the quarrelsome to the speechless, for he maintained to that age the ... ...slap party; then she lived at Cauldstaneslap. Here was Archie’s secret, here was the woman, and more than that – though I have need here of every mana...

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...nced limitations on both sides. We can’t learn to understand much of their language, but the dog, the elephant, etc., learn to understand a very great... ...rs and looks exactly like a wolf. He was educated in Germany, and knows no language but the German. Jean gave him no orders save in that tongue. And s... ...with her pen. She had but an indifferent ear music, but her tongue took to languages with an easy facility. She never allowed her Italian, French, and... ...lphabet in the world. It can spell and correctly pronounce any word in our language. That admirable alphabet, that brilliant alphabet, that inspired a... ...of the book. But even if we knew the simplified form for every word in the language, the phonographic alphabet would still beat the Simplified Speller... ...ange they fixed on the crucifixes the heads of their victims. Wherever the Scots came, there was the same scene of horror and cruelty: women shrieking...

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...untry) I made bold to find the way to it myself, with the help of my two legs and a Scots tongue. But the rest were in a different case. Not only was ... ...d cause,” said she. “Aften I spaed to them the way that it would end. T wa shillin’ Scots: no pickle mair; and there are twa bonny callants hingin’ fo... ...ws, that seemed a hard case; and whether a man came to hang there for two shillings Scots, or (as Mr. Stewart had it) from the sense of duty, once he ... ...a man who might be your father (if it was nothing more) to employ his own imperfect language, and express his own poor thoughts, even when they have t... ..., and entertained 37 Catriona me for a while with playing and singing, both in the Scots and in the Italian manners; this put me more at my ease, and... ...loud with a queer word that was common with her, and belongs, I believe, to her own language. “My torture!” says she, “look at the sun!” Indeed, it wa... ...ent about to put affronts on gentlemen,” said I, “I think I would learn the English language first.” He took me by the sleeve with a nod and a wink an... ...against my life by the hands of the Highland soldier, but (as appeared from his own language) Prestongrange him- self had some design in operation. I ... ...at the cross, and at the pier and shore of Leith, for sixty days.” “Ye’re a sounder Scots lawyer than Prestongrange, then!” cries the Writer. “He has ...

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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... ...ree English quarts, familiarly denominated a tappit hen, and which, in the language of the hostess, reamed (i.e. mantled) with excellent claret, just ... ...e peppercorns a year, whilk were taxt to be worth seven-eighths of a penny Scots, in whilk the defender was assoilzied. But I deem it safest, wi’ your... ...panish or Italian artificer, brought over by James IV or V to instruct the Scots in the manufacture of sword blades. Most barbarous nations excel in t... ...d blades. Most barbarous nations excel in the fabrication of arms; and the Scots had attained great proficiency in forging swords, so early as the fie... ...ned, and one of them is now in France, a serjeant in the Regiment of Royal Scots. How soon the accounts of the enemie’s approach had reached the Princ...

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...indeed to the bagman; but talked low and sparingly to one another, or raked us in the gaslight with a gleam of spectacles. For though handsome lads, t... ...nds in his door; the colonel with his three medals goes by to the CAFE at night; the troops drum and trumpet and man the ramparts, as bold as so many ... ...h of humanity as to keep them from desiring more, and only the stale externals of man’s life. These ex- ternals are as dead to us as so many formaliti... ...e left the cafe, we were pursued and overtaken at the hotel door by no less a person than the Juge de Paix: a functionary, as far as I can make out, o... ... this rate, the talk was pretty certain to become technical. The Cagarette expounded the Poor Laws very magisteri- ally. And a little later I found my... ...tics died away, and the good people began to brag of their barge, and their happy condition in life, as if they had been Emperor and Empress of the In... ...ar- tyr, I conclude. We had a long conversation, and made out what we wanted in spite of his reserve. But here was a truly curious circumstance. It se... ...his frame of mind was the great exploit of our voyage, take it all in all. It was the farthest piece of travel accom- plished. Indeed, it lies so far ...

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...lf, I have pride in recording that for many years we were, in Wordsworth’s language,— “A pair of friends, though I was young, And ‘George’ was sev... ... have been wealthy. He had hitherto been speaking of what, in theatri- cal language, was called stars; but they were sometimes fall- ing ones. There w... ...tself, and which, in an assembly such as this, or in any other assembly of Scotsmen, can never be received, not, he would say, with ordinary feelings ... ...s which found a responding chord in their own feelings, and to deal in the language, the sincere language, of panegyric, without intruding on the mode... ...e even able to give utterance to all that, as a friend, as a man, and as a Scotsman, he must feel regarding it—yet knowing, as he well did, that this ... ...n the aged and infirm actor derives relief from this fund, he will, in the language of the gallant Highlander, “Cast his eye to good old Scotland, and... ... our toast be—”To your fireside, my good friend. And now we shall go beg a Scots song without foreign graces from my little siren, Miss Katie.” The ne... ..., “that Swift, in his Journal, tells Stella he had dined in the house of a Scots nobleman, with two Highland chiefs, whom he had found as well-bred me... ...t against his quondam asso- ciate—some from the ancient grudge against the Scots, which, when it exists anywhere, is to be found lurking in the Border...

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...wn wrongs by whispering incitements to invasion. ‘All people, nations, and languages,’ was the commencement of the decrees of that monarch’s court; an... ...elling to the south of them, and almost exactly resem- bling themselves in language, habits, government, and fash- ions of fighting. Indeed the city o... ...ry angry at the compassion shown by the crowd, and after frightfully harsh language commanded that Gertrude should be dragged away; but one of the nob... ...hat the word hos- pitium, which in Latin only means an inn, has, in modern languages, given birth, on the one hand, to hotel, or lodging house, on the... ...and a messenger brought King Edward letters from his Queen to say that the Scots army had been entirely defeated at Nevil’s Cross, near Durham, and th... ...tons and cities of the little republic of Switzerland. Of differing races, languages, and, latterly, even religions— unlike in habits, tastes, opinion... ... cast a shadow over that careless mirth. Always fierce and vindictive, the Scots had been growing more and more lawless and savage ever since the disp... ...ty Years’ war, and was backed up by Patrick, Lord Ruthven, one of the many Scots who had won honor under the great Swedish King, Gustavus Adolphus. A ...

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... and with the names of the skippers who commanded them — with the names of Scots and English shipowners — with the names of seas, oceans, straits, pro... ...e, all same look see can do,” said Jukes, who having no talent for foreign languages mangled the very pidgin-English cruelly. He pointed at the open h... ... — tangled facts that nevertheless speak to a seaman in clear and definite language. Their speech appealed to Captain MacWhirr’s sense of reali- ties ... ...hen- sible guttural hooting sounds, that did not seem to belong to a human language, penetrated Jukes with a strange emotion as if a brute had tried t...

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...letters and a moralist; how the Essays would be read, in all the principal languages of Europe, by millions of intel- ligent human beings, who never h... ...e fame. A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is al- ways everywhere the same. The text of thes... ...h Montaigne’s translators seems to have been a propensity for reducing his language and phrase- ology to the language and phraseology of the age and c... ... his father had placed near him, and who never addressed him except in the language of Virgil and Cicero. The study of Greek took precedence. At six y... ...ets on his right side, and a lion at his feet, all which signifies, in the language of funeral emblems, that the departed has been engaged in some imp... ...y with him in his army, so often as he should be obliged to go against the Scots, as if destiny had inevitably attached victory, even to his remains. ... ...the worst part of his fortune. The fairest of all queens, —[Mary, Queen of Scots.]—widow to the greatest king in Europe, did she not come to die by th...