Both are accomplished linguists, speaking with discrimination French, German, Russian, English, Norwegian, Swedish, and, naturally, Danish.

She paid particular attention to the study of language and literature, and she is now a fluent linguist and a member of the Idier and German clubs.

Major Frye was a very distinguished linguist; besides knowing Greek and Latin, he understood almost all European languages, and was capable of writing correctly in French, Italian and German.

SIR WILLIAM JONES was not only the most eminent linguist, but in many respects one of the most remarkable men, of the last century; and LORD TEIGNMOUTH'S Memoir of him has been justly accounted one of the most interesting, instructive, and entertaining pieces of modern biography.

This second figure was a great personalityItalian by birth, an extraordinary linguist, a very largely made man, both stout and tall, with a head of thick and perfectly white hair.

[Henry VIII]; the manifold linguist [All's Well That Ends Well].

They are the most marvellous linguists in the world.

His translations of the Spanish and French romances are also executed con amore, and with the literal fidelity and care of a mere linguist.

Rare linguist, whose worth speaks itself, whose praise, Though not his own, all tongues besides do raise: Than whom great Alexander may seem less, Who conquer'd men, but not their languages.

One of the most successful missionaries in that part of the world was an apostate Polish Jew named Rev. Isidore Lowenthal, a remarkable linguist and a man of profound learning.

The theory of the institution ignores such aptitudes as his, and recognizes no merits save those of some small sedentary linguist or mathematician,a blessing to his teacher, but an object of watchful anxiety to the family physician, and whose career was endangering not only his health, but his humility.

Courtly, refined, and a splendid linguist, as he was, the girls always voted him great fun; but from the elder ones, and from married women especially, he somehow held himself aloof.

Langbaine observes of our author, that he was a general scholar, and a tolerable linguist, as his several translations from Lucian, Erasmus, Texert, Beza, Buchanan, and other Latin and Italian authors sufficiently manifest.

I know him for a transcendant linguist in the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and modern European languages;and with or without the Sanscrit, I look up to him, and rely on his erudition in all cases, in which I am concerned.

In this connexion may be mentioned an other work of similar size and purpose, but more comprehensive in design; the "History of European Languages," by that astonishing linguist the late Dr. Alexander Murray.