"His labour is not yet at an end: he must know many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by incessant practice, familiarize to himself every delicacy of speech and grace of harmony.

Literature is much cultivated here, and the females, who are in general handsome and graceful, excel not only in the various feminine accomplishments, such as music, dancing and drawing, but they carry their researches into the higher branches of litterature and science and acquire with great facility foreign languages.

The treaty is in the Persian and French languages, but is accompanied by an English translation.

The technology changes every couple of years and I'm sick of learning languages.

And when we come down to the present day, R.W. Emerson, of Concord, asseverates that trees have conversed with him,that they speak Italian, English, German, Basque, Castilian, and several other languages perfectly, "Mountain speech to Highlanders, Ocean tongues to islanders," and that he himself was on one occasion transformed into a Pine (Pinus rigida) and talked quite a large volume of philosophy while in that condition.

Do they speak languages and congregate and worship at the altar?"

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

There was in the town an old officer of the Emperor's Polish Legion, who, compelled to leave France after Waterloo, had taken refuge in England, and, having a natural talent for languages, maintained himself by teaching French, Italian, and German in different families.

Vico carries this threefold division into his consideration of manners, laws, languages, character, etc.

For the rest, Genovesi thus advises his friends: Study the world, devote yourselves to languages and to mathematics, think more about men than about the things above us, and leave metaphysical vagaries to the monks!

After one religious service in Fayal, my friend, the Professor of Languages, who sometimes gave lessons in English, remarked to me confidentially, in my own tongue,"His sermon is good, but his exposition is bad; he does not expose well.

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They speak the gipsy language, but often a half-dozen other languages besides, in their peculiar chanting voice.

Four written languages are spoken in their valleys, and ten times as many local dialects.

To all his questions he replied in the strange tongue of the night before, and, though our fellows had been to many ports, and knew a word or two of several languages, none of them recognized it.

One hundred and eighteen distinct languages are spoken in various parts of India and fifty-nine of these languages are spoken by more than 100,000 people each.

It has a large collection of editions of the Koran in fifty or more different languages, and one manuscript book called "The Gulistan" is claimed to be the most valuable volume in India.

My brain has been thinking inarticulately perhaps, all these years: and the English words and letters, as they now stand written, have rather an improbable and foreign air to me, as a Greek or Russian book might look to a man who has not so long been learning those languages as to forget the impossibly foreign impression received from them on the first day of tackling them.

With him the excess of this power took a very natural turn, for though he possessed through its aid, considerable facilities for music and the study of languages also, the course of events led him irresistibly to what is usually called "the fine arts.

Without instructors, she taught herself to draw, to sing, and to understand the more polite European languages.

In this state of mind, I met by accident, in a neglected corner of the house of one of my neighbours, with a general dictionary of four of the northern languages.

In my youth I had not been inattentive to languages.

The old rules, borrowed chiefly from grammars of other languages, and still retained in some of our own, are liable to very strong objections.

No use appears to have been made of the hyphen, in joining the words of those languages, though the name of the mark is a Greek compound, meaning "under one."

"The first error that I would mention, is, a too general attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own.