 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under...  Studies in Literature and Style - Page 279by Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 297 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lawrence Alan Rosenwald - 1988 - 176 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can produce in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue." See also Emerson's... | |
 | Thomas Saine - 1994 - 320 pages
...French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the good metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven" (7:204). Sein nachdrücklicher Vermerk, daß er sogar Französisch nicht liest, ist ein deutliches... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version ... I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when 1 have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. Ralph Waldo Emerson,... | |
 | 2005 - 145 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. For history, there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 321 pages
...whieh reeeives tributaries from ever}" region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming aeross Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my moth er-tongue. For history there... | |
 | Richard Lederer - 2007 - 268 pages
...Turkish: jackal Welsh: flannel Yiddish: kibitzer No wonder that Ralph Waldo Emerson waxed ecstatic about "English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven," and that Dorothy Thompson, employing a more prosaic metaphor, referred to "that glorious and imperial... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 554 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. For history, there... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1922 - 522 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. The day of the ipse... | |
 | 1858 - 1016 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming aeross Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I... | |
 | 1912 - 772 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...receives tributaries from every region under heaven. 1 should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading... | |
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