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But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook
their heads; but for mine own part, if read more
But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook
their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.
This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the
armipotent soldier.
This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the
armipotent soldier.
O, good my lord, no Latin!
I am not such a truant since my coming
As not read more
O, good my lord, no Latin!
I am not such a truant since my coming
As not to know the language I have lived in.
A strnage tongue makes my cause more strnage, suspicious.
Pray speak in English.
Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four
languages word for word without book, and hath all read more
He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four
languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts
of nature.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of
the two!
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of
the two!
He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
[Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts read more
He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
[Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner
eigenen.]
