| 单词 | dead language |
| 例句 | But Latin was also a dead language, a tongue foreign to most Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members, that’s what Milton felt, seeing his father sunk in desk light, jutting out a moist underlip, scanning a dead language. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It's sort of the Mount Everest of dead languages. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z It is harder to carry on a conversation in a dead language than you might think. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When I asked her what her dad did, she said, “He’s a college professor. He teaches the dead languages.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, Ben felt, dead languages could sway God more easily than a language soiled by everyday use. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He tapped his breast solemnly when he reached the words that always moved him, even though spoken in the secret tongue of a dead language: Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At the gates of hell, the stones instruct Orpheus not to sing there “unless you sing in a dead language” — so Hopkins and Orlinski duly start intoning Latin, in a parody of medieval plainchant. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Nothing dates like technology, but some of the dance’s movement vocabulary is also dead language. Dance Review: Sokolow Theater/Dance Ensemble at Cunningham Studio - Review 2011-11-13T23:09:41Z Indeed, a recent audio piece mixed recordings of dead languages to sound like voices from beyond the grave. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-29T00:06:24Z “Cable news speaks in a dead language” that is “inaccessible” and “alienating,” he said. Trump supporters are real people. Just not on TV 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Horace and Me is a little like Withnail & I for toffs, not thesps, with the love that dare not speak its name adopting the respectable cover of a dead language. Horace and Me by Harry Eyres – revew 2013-07-07T09:00:00Z That is the sound of the dead language in Roland Joffé’s screenplay for “There Be Dragons” as it tramples his would-be epic of the Spanish Civil War into an indigestible pulp. | 'There Be Dragons': A Guess-the-Flavoring Game, and Then Along Comes a War 2011-05-06T05:30:06Z All three were dead languages, but the Greek alphabet was still in use. The 20-Year Contest to Crack the Code of the Rosetta Stone 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z How do we know what was obscene in a dead language? Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr – review 2013-05-23T06:30:19Z That “dead end” is dead language brought back to life by experience. ‘Here I Throw Down My Heart’: poems that force a fresh look 2012-12-07T00:49:04Z When dealing with living or even dead languages, the encoding process—the assignment of code points to characters—consisted of observation and research: How does the punctuation behave? Should There Be an Emoji for Everything? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The experience of listening to an hour’s music you barely know in a dead language you do not understand is a strange falling and rising experience. Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z If she’s sending furtive messages, they’re so subtle, they might as well be Morse code wrapped in semaphore filtered through hieroglyphics and the dead languages of our forefathers eight generations back. Perspective | Is Melania Trump sending coded messages, or are we just talking to ourselves? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Every time I type the word “Hollywood,” I feel a twinge of anachronism, as if I were speaking a dead language or writing about a country in the process of being erased from the map. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z “Of all the mad things we humans do, there might be nothing more humbling, or more noble, than trying to translate the dead languages,” Zeno’s friend says. Review | Anthony Doerr’s ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ is a convoluted love letter to books 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z But they have yet to claim their rightful place in the broader canon of world literature, in part because of the stiffness of previous translations from Pali, a dead language, he said. Murty Classical Library Catalogs Indian Literature 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z However, the event can be followed by the return of the dead language and ultimately its eventual dominance. When languages collide, which survives? 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z The inherent difficulty of a dead language draws a teacher and student — both unnamed — to the same classroom in Seoul, although for different reasons. Why 'The Vegetarian' author Han Kang's newly translated novel is her gutsiest yet 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z "Do our words and our liturgies ignite in people's hearts a desire to move towards God, or are they a 'dead language' that speaks only of itself and to itself?" Pope decries Church conservatives encased in "suit of armour" 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z In another, he referred to Welsh signage in supermarkets as "incomprehensible" and described it as "a dead language that sounds uncannily like someone with bad catarrh clearing his throat". Iceland director sacked after Welsh language jibes 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z He neglected to mention that Latin is a dead language and the Roman Empire collapsed. How Michèle Flournoy's Pentagon dreams collapsed: Progressives fought back 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z To move beyond the dead language of liberal political correctness, which all the Democratic candidates suffer from, is a great service. Trump will win again, easily: Liberals simply don't understand what he represents 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z You might think that a poem that exists in a pile of broken pieces, in an extremely dead language, would be something that translators would run from in a hurry. How to Read “Gilgamesh” 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Peterson followed these steps when creating High Valyrian, a mostly dead language comparable to Latin that is spoken by scholars and priests and is first heard in Season 3 of the series. How ‘Game of Thrones’ linguist David J. Peterson became Hollywood’s go-to language guy 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z In his third book, "Green With Bears," published when he was still in his 20s, he wrote beautifully about learning dead languages: Remembering poet W.S. Merwin: 'What you remember saves you' 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z "But if we were able to gather a reasonable amount of text, we should be able to revive dead languages." How translation apps are ironing out embarrassing gaffes 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z There is some precedent for this in the history of archaeologists studying dead languages: The hardest code to crack is one with only a few fragments. Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z It may not be surprising to learn that a charter school named Boys’ Latin still offers courses in this dead language. Black Men Speaking Latin 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z It's tense, cutthroat, and is basically scripted almost entirely in dead languages. The entire spectrum of human emotion, in one spelling bee Vine 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z In fact, when Mr. Trump now refers to “the Hispanics,” “the blacks” or “the evangelicals,” it is as if he is reviving a dead language. As Donald Trump Speaks, Some Voters Hear Echoes of Ed Koch 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z But the language of politics stays the same, and it is a dead language. American Politics: Why the Thrill is Gone 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Today’s dead languages include those that, in their halcyon days, belonged to the world’s most advanced civilizations. Talking to the Future -- Hey, There's Nuclear Waste Buried Here! 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Although a screen on the payment terminal said McDonald’s accepted Apple Pay, she looked at me like I was speaking a dead language. A Day With Apple Pay 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Categories of languages depicted on the museum’s International Flag of Language, representing dead languages, living languages and emerging ones. National Museum of Language in its final days "The dead language is important because it is dead," Mr. Miraglia said in an interview. Caveat Emptor: Lovers of Latin Try to Sell a Dead Tongue 2013-11-30T03:32:52Z I studied dead languages at school - no chance of sudden changes in grammar or vocabulary there. Why embracing change is the key to happiness 2013-09-06T16:30:15Z Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement Monday in the dead language of Latin that, while still alive, he’d be stepping down on Feb. 28, took the cosseted curia around him by surprise. Habemus Vacancy 2013-02-12T16:50:00Z The question people were asking then was a natural one - why attempt to keep a dead language alive? India Ink: In Mysore, Keeping Sanskrit Alive on Newsprint 2012-07-18T07:40:45Z There will be no denying that Oxford has been the home of dead languages and undying prejudice. Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z This rock was known by this name among the peasantry of the neighbourhood up to recent times, until Irish became a dead language in this part of the country. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Many a boy has gone from that school to the university not educated at all, save in the dead languages. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z In all ancient or dead languages we have no term, any way adequate, whereby we may express it. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z The converts asked for better care, and purer and better teaching and means of grace than they found in the dead language, rituals, and ordinances of the Old Church. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Miracles seem altogether more credible, when told in a dead language. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages, or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed account of things that never occurred. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z At the very close of his life, in 1789, he issued his famous protest against the study of dead languages. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z However, if the dead languages continue to be taught in our schools, I could wish them to be taught through a different medium than at present. An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... 2011-12-24T03:08:05.883Z What do I know about Latin—a dead language! Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z For Tolkien, Anglo-Saxon was not a dead language. There Are No Dead Languages 2011-12-04T13:59:39Z He had also the rather unacademic habit of quoting dead languages in a manner so remarkably impressive as to bewilder the Sailor. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z In a word, the dead languages are studied too much; the living, too little. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z The dead language, however, did not wholly perish. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Observe that the term "learned lady" is not correctly applied to a female, unless she has successfully cultivated what is understood to be the learning of colleges—for instance, the dead languages, &c. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z A critical scholar in the dead languages, in French, German and Italian, he could draw at will from the wealth of these tongues to illustrate any particular topic. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z For all that he knew, Mr. Harper might have been listening to a dead language. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z The ground is hardly broken above those dead languages, and he has not the strength he had thought he possessed. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z All learning is a dead language to him who gets it at second hand. Indian Scout Talks A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls 2011-09-11T02:00:11.207Z The word commerce was to me as a phrase in a dead language. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z The dead languages are bad enough to learn, but women's living language of fashion is ten hundred times worse. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z I'm a private tutor in dead languages and a widower, that's all. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z “Oh, but I knew perfectly well what I wanted before I came,” interrupted Minerva in a lofty tone, “I want to study the dead languages.” Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z They declare that it must be Satan himself who has kept this glorious book locked up in a dead language out of reach of women and children and the common people. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z It requires an extraordinary study to recognize the maker of an instrument, and understand the dead language of the violin. George Gem?nder's Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General 2011-05-20T02:00:32.993Z You are an excellent linguist, but probably do not know the dead languages, Christabel. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z If he desires to benefit his fellow-countrymen, he will not use a dead language, imperfectly comprehended by a few learned men, but will bend the idiom of the people to the needs of erudition. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Latin and Greek at college had thus meant much more to him than dead languages; in them he found living personalities which inspired in him the liveliest ambition for emulation. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z Latin seems from her lips no more a dead language. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Nevertheless the trick wore out, with the taste that it had created, and by the close of the reign of James I. Euphuism had become a dead language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Myths, in fact, are the words of a dead language to which a wrong sense has been given by a false method of decipherment. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z His first idea was to resuscitate some dead language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Simply because French, German, Italian, English may be forgotten languages a few centuries hence, but Latin—the so-called dead language—will be as enduring then as now.” The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z "Are you really saying to young people and employers today that dead languages are more important than business studies, engineering, ICT, music and RE?," he said. Bercow reprimand after Gove jibe 2011-02-07T17:03:22Z Two asterisks are employed to mark those which are emphatically dead languages, while one indicates those which have a kind of artificial life in ecclesiastical or literary usage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z I am learned in dead languages—Sanskrit, Pali. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z The spirit and essence of her work belong entirely to the Middle Ages; for beneath the rigid garb of a dead language"—she wrote in Latin—"beats the warm heart of a new era. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Cynthia was so greatly shaken, that to defend her from his observation I was even moved to indulge in the parson's fondness for the dead languages and abstruse theories. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Dutch is a dead language the same as Greek or Latin.” Willemstad Journal: A Language Thrives in Its Caribbean Home 2010-07-05T02:35:00Z We ourselves may get on well without the help of the dead languages, but we have brother naturalists all over the world, speaking a great variety of different languages. Butterflies and Moths (British) I confess I do not expect my words to sink into the hearts of the teachers of what are unkindly called the dead languages. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Think of a professor's moldy pack, dead languages, dried thought——" "Hold on, my dear friend. A Yankee from the West A Novel I've always heard that Latin is a dead language, and if that is so, it ought to be used on dead folks and not on live ones. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Indeed, Latin has never become in Italy a really dead language, remote from the popular consciousness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 In England, at any rate, modern languages are taught like dead languages: they are taught through the eyes, whereas they should be taught through the ears and mouth. John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced Their ancient tongue has fallen into disuse, and is practically a dead language. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu We don't waste time on dead languages at the Point, as you college men do. Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 He preferred modern tongues to dead languages, an intricate fugue was more to his taste than the simplest equation, and to his shame it must be noted that he read Petrarch at night. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel The Cymric Branch consists of the dead language Cornish, and the living languages of Wales and Brittany. Lectures on The Science of Language The dead languages, however, were not to be ignored. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 “This bulky fellow is a lexicon I used in my youth; and since Latin is a ‘dead language’ it’s as much alive and as helpful now as ever. Dorothy on a House Boat What I have to argue for is the study of the dead languages of extinct and barbarous tribes. American Languages, and Why We Should Study Them The sacred books of the Hindoos are written in a dead language, the Sanskrit, which none but the Brahmins are allowed to study. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem The Indic Class consists of the dead languages Prakrit and Pali, Modern Sanskrit, and Vedic Sanskrit, and the modern Dialects of India, and the Dialects of the Gipsies. Lectures on The Science of Language It did always appear to me, that inscriptions, particularly those in verse, or in a dead language, were never supposed necessarily to be the composition of those in whose name they appeared. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) And a teacher of mathematics who had forged a key to the Linguistics library, and had been getting in every night to study a dead language—Cuneiform, Latin, something like that, utterly without practical value. Category Phoenix He must manage to sustain his reputation without the aid of the pharmacopoeia, and continue to be imposing without any assistance from the dead languages. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands The fictitious phantoms of heathen mythology, the heroes of decayed empires, and the authors whose works are in dead languages, are the sole immortals of Pope. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The Italic Class consists of the dead languages Oscan, Latin, and Umbrian, together called Lingua Vulgaris, or Langue d'oc and Langue d'oil, and the living languages of Portugal, Spain, Provençe, France, and Italy. Lectures on The Science of Language One of them, especially, had attained what would certainly in the case of a dead language be considered 123 a very high degree of scholarship indeed. The Intellectual Life They're written in Coptic, a dead language that you consider it a waste of time to learn, because such knowledge is impractical. Category Phoenix To speak of the Old World and the New World is to speak in a dead language. The Pentecost of Calamity Then they have two pennyworths of haddock and a few potatoes for dinner, and back to the college again, for more dead languages, and mathematics. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl The Arabic or Southern Class consists of the dead languages Ethiopic and the Himyaritic Inscriptions, and the living languages of Arabic and Amharic. Lectures on The Science of Language It is deplorable that the learned should ever have allowed Latin to become a dead language, since in permitting this they have enormously increased the difficulty of acquiring it, even for the purposes of scholarship. The Intellectual Life "A dead language, spoken by the ancient Egyptians thirty or forty centuries ago." Category Phoenix Pali, as the reader doubtless knows, is a dead language founded upon the Sanscrit, though Buddhists claim that it is the original of all tongues. The Pearl of India To such, and to such only, would I furnish the quiet resource of a dead language as a solid aliment, which may fill the mind without inflating it. Coelebs In Search of a Wife In Louis Ménard’s Le Diable au café the devil calls Hebrew a dead language, and as a modern prefers to be called by the French equivalent of his original Hebrew name. Devil Stories An Anthology The study of the dead languages had hitherto been confined almost exclusively to ecclesiastics and scholars by profession, but from the time of Henry the Seventh it had been gradually spreading amongst the higher classes. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries Leader Marley rewarded me with a Free Choice, and I chose to learn a dead language. Category Phoenix To meet that dissatisfaction, the teachers had accepted new subjects of study, had improved their methods, and had simplified the learning of the dead languages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" He had been prepared to suspect her of a morbid pedantry, having known more than one lady in her desperate case who found consolation in the dead languages. The Return of the Prodigal He gave utterance to his ideas in words which, even in a dead language, have to this day a living power. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education Locked up in a dead language, kept close, away from the world, they were like the jar of wheat which could not grow. The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World The so-called uselessness of learning dead languages imparted to the mind, it knew not how, an ideal drift. Pedagogics as a System However, the instruction in the seminary is rigidly grouped around courses in dead languages; which are jealous of instruction in a living tongue. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology Thus being picked up on a trifling, useless English word, I decided to give up the study of dead languages and confine myself to my mother-tongue. Confessions of a Neurasthenic To hide this inability we, by preference, give them practice in the dead languages, of which there are no longer any unexceptionable judges. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts Latin is a dead language now, but in those days it was the everyday language of Rome, so most of these inscriptions are in Latin. The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World His Latin verses are pronounced excellent by all competent critics, but when a man writes verses in a dead language he does so generally to show his scholarship, and not to express his inspiration. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) She proposed to teach nothing but the dead languages and theology, and to confine knowledge to these fields, and she succeeded for many generations in so doing. Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures The Greek and Hebrew languages, from which the Bible has to be translated, are dead languages—languages which are no longer spoken or written by any people—languages which exist only in ancient writings. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." By and bye, as the mind passes into other phases, the meaning is forgotten; the language becomes a dead language; and the living robe of life becomes a winding-sheet of corruption. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. Beattie confesses learning English as a dead language and taking several years over the task. James Boswell Famous Scots Series We would assign to it its separate class and its separate time, just as we would assign a separate class and time to the teaching of English grammar, or history, or the dead languages. Leading Articles on Various Subjects She stuck to the dead languages, and the only thing she is not afraid of to-day is something dead. Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures His collegiate education gave him an early liking for the dead languages, and he carried out the notion of the ancients, that the exoteric or esoteric methods were still in force. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Every monumental inscription should be in Latin; for that being a dead language, it will always live. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. Their power to construe a dead language served to differentiate them from their associates, and, rather foolishly if heroically, to bolster up their pride. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin He felt like a corpse that is inhabited with just enough life to make it appear as any other of the spectral, unliving beings which we call people in our dead language. The Rainbow Can you hear a man speaking in a dead language? The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 She was a sensible woman, and did not for a moment purpose to ask him to teach her the dead languages, philosophy, or science, things in which he knew she took no interest. The Squirrel Inn Travelers say so, and a lot of scientific fellows are now on the track of this strange tribe to investigate them before civilization makes of their talk a dead language. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer The boys all understand that by a “pony” was meant a translation of some work in one of the dead languages which they were studying at the time. The Hilltop Boys A Story of School Life I thought this odd, because it occurred to me that German was a dead language before Aristophanes was born. The World I Live In A dead language might be used for that purpose—as, for example, improved Latin. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man Living tongues, unlike a dead language, are continually changing in words and meaning. The Faith of Our Fathers Though not spoken today by any tribe or people, it is not a dead language, for it is the religious tongue of India. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ The higher method of inquiry and investigation can be applied to the growing roots of living plants as well as to the dry stems of a dead language. From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington His reply must have been more than the German bargained for: “Sir, I do not intend to waste my time learning a dead language!” 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany He forgot that Lucy did not know that dead language and could not share his enthusiasm. The Explorer But the Latin, being a dead language, is not liable to these changes. The Faith of Our Fathers The acquiring of a living language is a very different thing from the study of a dead language. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ The Arabic will only be taught as any other dead language. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Latin and Greek are the only tongues in which departed spirits can be addressed, for this reason they are denominated the dead languages. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 Think of having always—and always—to speak a dead language! Humorous Ghost Stories In all the schismatic churches of the East the Priest in the public service prays not in the vulgar, but in a dead language. The Faith of Our Fathers It is not used as a dead language here, a tongue "not understanded of the people," but as a living force in the invisible worlds. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries But queens are not expected to know the dead languages—not Queen Esther, at any rate.' A Red Wallflower The Bible was permitted only in a dead language, and the faithful Christian was obliged to seek refuge in the wilderness. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse Therefore the oldest Vedas, the purely popular, cannot be younger than 3000; the collection was made in the third period, the tenth book is already in chief part written in a dead language. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Harold’s father had been a professor of dead languages, and I guess he must have died of it. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe The Coptic has been identified through many etymologies with the old Egyptian; and of the Coptic, though it became a dead language in the twelfth century, much literature remains. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 So the dead languages and their semi-supernatural, quarrelsome, self-seeking heroes passed in review without gaining admittance to the soul of Watt. James Watt The writer knows of at least one young Negro minister, a holder of a Master's degree from a large educational institution, whose major work for his higher degree was in the dead languages. Church Cooperation in Community Life The classical education set out to study the ancient world, and in the case of most of its pupils achieved little more than the dry elements of two dead languages. The School and the World At the diff’rent prep. schools where he was tried out he appeared to be too much of a live one to make much headway with the dead languages. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe He was, therefore, no favorite of the learned gentleman, who thought his abilities and his scholarship were over-estimated—because he did not like the dead languages. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim I suppose his paddle had nearly as much effect as if it had been an iron spoon; and he probably knew as much about boating as he did about the dead languages. Dotty Dimple At Home Even the “Hamiltonian” system of learning a dead language had already been invented. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs "It's high time I took my turn—and God knows I'd go mad if I had to stay inship and listen to Lee memorizing his Handbook subsections or to Gib practicing dead languages with Xavier." Control Group Ancient and extinct forms of life often show combined or intermediate characters, like the words of a dead language with respect to its several offshoots or living tongues. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. The dead languages were the chief end of man to him. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim "You mean dead languages," put in Molly, laughing. Molly Brown's Senior Days But the dead language of Sumer was not all that the educated Babylonian or Assyrian gentlemen of later times was called upon to know. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs Here the dead languages, which are sure to be beaten by science in the purely intellectual fight, have an irresistible claim. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 In the opinion of many sound educators, the cultural advantages of the dead languages, all things considered, are received at the expense of more important subjects. A Broader Mission for Liberal Education Baccalaureate Address, Delivered in Agricultural College Chapel, Sunday June 9, 1901 The dead languages were alive to her, too. Old Valentines A Love Story If mastery of dead languages is not an indispensable part of polite education, mathematical learning is still less so. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 “Why, what can the lassie do?” she cried; “I thought you were making her nothing but a don in the dead languages!” The Dew of Their Youth But for mercy's sake do not fill his brain with classical sentences and dead languages. The Conquest of Bread Without experience it is a dead language in meaning even though it be one's own mother tongue. Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation To nine out of ten of his audience, his words and similes, though correct, and sometimes beautiful, were as unintelligible as the dead languages. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time Raphael is a woman, Michael Angelo is a monster; one is paradise, the other is hell; they are painters of another world; it is a dead language that nobody speaks in our day. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Writers too, generally have a smattering of some dead languages, and even advocate the study to-day, of Sanskrit, and Gaelic. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah Nothing like the dead languages for training the mind. The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking In Germany, Rubens must be considered the great translator of art out of a dead language into a living one, to use a metaphor, and into one that, like music, is universal. Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. We speak of 'extinct volcanoes,' and of 'dead languages,' and, as the latter is Saxon and short, we prefer it. The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California This idea had its origin in ages when books were few, were printed chiefly in dead languages, and rendered still more dead by being chained to the shelves or tables of the library. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries "Ah," said he with a quizzical smile, "'Frederick the Great' convinces me that I write two dead languages,—Latin and English!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 There are still those to whom the Irish even of the twelfth century is no dead language. Irish Books and Irish People If you ask my advice I should not, at your time of life, dream of setting to to learn the dead languages, or to study mathematics. For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes None of your Latin endings, or any other dead language. The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages Even the Jews in New Testament times read their own Scriptures in a Greek version, the original Hebrew having become a dead language. The Life of St. Paul These externals are as dead to us as so many formalities, and speak a dead language in our eyes and ears. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) A dead language can undergo no change; it remains, and must remain, as we find it written in books. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 It was not the power of Greek art that he brought into the schools but, in most cases, merely the philological study of a second dead language. The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze The dew is still on all of it; and, thanks to the dead language, the dead manners, it will always be on. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Horace and Virgil, licentious, but alluring, drove me back to the study of Latin, and fixed in my mind a knowledge of the dead languages, at the expense of my morals. Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer “I crave thy pardon, child; I spoke, I presume, in the dead languages.” Jacob Faithful Thus, Latin is a dead language, because no nation anywhere now speaks it. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 A small number of New Testament manuscripts, which were written in dead languages were used only in taking oaths. Modern Persia Why should extremely few persons, the least capable, perhaps, of sympathy, be invited to sympathize, while thousands are excluded from it by the iron grate of a dead language? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Pascal's father determined that his son should teach the dead languages, but the voice of mathematics drowned every other call, haunting the boy until he laid aside his grammar for Euclid. Pushing to the Front He be a deadly lively old gentleman, with his dead language. Jacob Faithful The time I have spent in the study of the dead languages has been sheer waste; and all I have learnt wont raise us a foot higher here. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Not a single school was left, and the only effort at education was by monks teaching dead languages to aspirants for the priesthood. Modern Persia To Chaucer Anglo-Saxon was as much a dead language as it is to us. Brief History of English and American Literature I am bound to confess that my new-born ardour was not mainly due to affection for the dead language in question, or even to esteem for my preceptress. Tom, Dick and Harry A dead language is the contrary of all this. English Past and Present No doubt Sanskrit, in one sense, is a dead language. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge What, then, is the justification for devoting ten or twelve years of the youth's time to study of a dead language, as is commonly done in the case of Latin? The Story of the Mind We exchanged the freedom and spaciousness of life for a cramped existence compounded of spectacles and bad grammar, this complicated still further by the multiplication tables, the dead languages and indigestion tabloids. Here are Ladies Shortly after the Buddha's time the Brahmins had their sūtras in Sanskrit, already a dead language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" We usually think of a philologist as one who digs among the roots of dead languages, who worships the forms of speech and the laws of grammar. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart It was, I believe, a dead language more than two thousand years ago. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge This is, surely, the only method to make a dead language live in the mind of a pupil. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Especially had their education in the dead languages been "neglected," so it is quite likely they could not have passed the examinations had they attempted it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Making dead languages optional was the last convulsive kick of the cadaver. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers This mode never fails with living languages: but how is it to be applied to dead languages? The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Like other boys, Kaspar protested that he 'did not see the use of Latin,' and indeed many of our modern authors too obviously share Kaspar's indifference to the dead languages. Historical Mysteries And both Greek and Hebrew now are dead languages, and have been so for many ages. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story The supreme Christian sentiment of the hymn had permeated his soul till it spoke to him in a dead language as eloquently as in the living one; and this is what he made of it: The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Next to reading from a book written in the dead language, is to read from a book that is unintelligible. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers I wished they were not so far away, those eyes, so absorbed with books and dead and gone people and dead languages. The Story of Bawn The Bible was once found only in dead languages; now it is translated into the language of almost every people with whom we come in contact. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 The so-called dead languages spring to life in her presence, and, like Aaron’s rod, blossom and bring forth at her touch. The Vitalized School It accepts the mixed form of the old curriculum, and replaces one of the dead languages by one of the living. Practical Essays Metaphysical gibberish is a rudimentary survival of the practise of reading to the people in a dead language. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers He was well versed in the dead languages, acquainted with all branches of literature, and on terms of friendship with the most distinguished persons of the age. Great Italian and French Composers That was a very dead language, indeed, my dears; so dead that it is no wonder it made the old green parrot blue to speak it now and then. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 Where such a teacher is, there can be no dead language, no dry bones of history, and no stagnation in the stream of life. The Vitalized School The knowledge of them, like that of all dead languages, is locked up in books—grammars, lexicons, ancient versions, and various subsidiary helps—and can be mastered only by severe and protracted study. Companion to the Bible A present-day argument for learning Greek and Latin is that thereby we improve our English; but Thomas H. Price advocated the teaching of English so that we might better understand the dead languages. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I Now, prayers, in the vernacular tongue and suited to the occasion, were offered with simplicity and earnestness; then, petitions, long since antiquated, were muttered in a dead language. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution They had no dead languages to study, and the mind appears to have been in many cases expanded, far beyond its present compass. An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged She could never understand how a girl of healthy mind could care for mathematics, exact science, or dead languages. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm Not only are the Scriptures in their original form locked up in dead languages which the interpreter must thoroughly master, but they are, so to speak, embedded in ancient history, chronology, and archæology. Companion to the Bible A dead language is like common ground;—all have a right to pasture, and all a claim to give or to withhold admiration. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I "How stupid," she reflected, "to keep all those nice boys cooped up reading dead languages in a spot made for life and love." The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes To nine out of ten of his audience, his words and similes, though correct and sometimes beautiful, were as unintelligible as the dead languages. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 And with this I will have done with a dead language; for I am come to a period now when I can garnish my talk with the flowers of good old English gardens. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 You ask me—he calls out again—what good a dead language can do us? The Haskalah Movement in Russia I think Professor Baxter is the best teacher I ever saw and he doesn't make the Latin seem a bit like a dead language. Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College "I'm afraid they don't disturb the dead languages so much as you think," he reassured her, smiling. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes I don't think he knows many dead languages. Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" Bye and bye, as the mind passes into other phases, the meaning is forgotten; the language becomes a dead language; and the living robe of life becomes a winding-sheet of corruption. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) Whatever its beauty or expressiveness, it was in worse case than a dead language, for it was marked with the stigma of barbarism. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century While it gives the acquisition of the dead languages, it is the root, and thereforce facilitates the acquisition of many of the living. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 It would hardly have been understood by the officer, had he been permitted to read it so guardedly was it worded, it was indeed dead language to all save the initiated. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. The sound of a foreign tongue always made him feel pugnacious, and it was ever a question with him how, as a gentleman, to treat a dead language. Lady Good-for-Nothing This biting sarcasm would be inapplicable to Froude, who knew the dead languages, as they are called, well enough to read them with ease and enjoyment. The Life of Froude The right words have often no meaning for them, any more than if they were the words of some dead language. Thrift I wish sometimes our course took in Greek literature, but it's a dead language after all. Widdershins In Scott, then, we see the lengthening out of the influence of the antiquarians who wrote of a dead past in a dead language. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature But he has buried most of his erotic woes, such as they were, in a dead language. The Art of Letters This may explain why he had to cram hard in the dead languages at times, with a towel tied around his head. The Last Shot He read novels, history, poetry, and dived deeply into the dead languages, reading Plutarch's Lives twice in a year, and Euripides, Thucydides, Homer, Cicero, Cæsar—all without special aim or end. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors But the rustic stared at his master with gaping mouth, as if he had been addressed in one of the dead languages. The Poor Gentleman I do not know when the expression "the dead languages" was invented: but certainly Latin and Greek have been treated as very dead languages by the great majority of teachers for a very long time. Cambridge Essays on Education Birch, virtue of, in instilling certain of the dead languages. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell To philology even, the deadly science of dead languages, and the great business of public schools, he contrived to impart life by continually pointing out its bearing on the history of the races of mankind. Rides on Railways The day when they become fixed, they are dead.—That is why the French of a certain contemporary school is a dead language. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations We read many books written in dead languages, most of them more ancient than any part of the New Testament, some of them older than several of the books of the Old. The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps I have heard of the dead languages, but never of the dead thought. Back to Methuselah If I find that one boy expects to be an undertaker he ought to take the dead languages, of course. Reveries of a Schoolmaster Horace and Virgil, licentious but alluring, drove me back to the study of Latin, and fixed in my mind a knowledge of the dead languages, at the expense of my morals. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer "A splendid compliment, sir, a splendid compliment," declared the honored guest after Woodbury had translated the phrases for his benefit; "but why talk about so live a thing as patriotism in a dead language?" The Reign of Andrew Jackson We are constantly engaged in extracting the meaning of those who have written in times past, and in a dead language. The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps The dead language of Sumer had become sacred, like Latin in the Middle Ages, and each line of a hymn was provided with a translation in Semitic Babylonian. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Not admiring legislation in a dead language, and being desirous to pry into the mysteries which it sealed up from some of the members, they ordered the code to be translated. A Collection of College Words and Customs He has no sheepskin in a dead language with our learned doctors' names learnedly inscribed. Quiet Talks about Jesus During the post-Renaissance, or scientific period, of which the war probably marks the close, there has been a confusion of tongues; architecture has spoken only alien or dead languages, learned by rote. Architecture and Democracy His very revulsion against the English of Milton was a revulsion against the dead language of formal beauty. Old and New Masters He handled Latin as a living, not as a dead language, and his style is vigorous, terse, vitalised. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera Original Composition—that is, Composition in the true sense of the word—in the dead languages is not much practised.—Ibid., p. A Collection of College Words and Customs It is, in fact, a dead language, related to the various spoken languages of China, somewhat as Latin is to the languages of Southern Europe. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 Its transience, then, cannot matter, except in so far as it loses intelligibility through changes of time, place, and custom, and becomes a dead language. Heart of Man After this came the long prayer, which, in later times, became liturgical; and then the reading of the lesson for the day from "The Law," with its interpretation, when Hebrew had become a dead language. The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible We learn dead languages and living languages: Greek, Latin, German, English. Delsarte System of Oratory In scores of New England towns, one man, employed to fill the heads of a reluctant few with the dead languages, receives more salary than all the other teachers combined. The Gentleman from Everywhere Scholarship at Isabella Thoburn College does not deal exclusively with the dusty records of dead languages and bygone civilizations. Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India They are bringing them to England and America in shiploads, to such extent and variety, that nearly all the dead languages and many of the living are ransacked to furnish names for them. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's The services of the church were in Latin, now become a dead language. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 To Chaucer, Anglo-Saxon was as much a dead language as it is to us. From Chaucer to Tennyson It neither produced uniformity in the methods of teaching, nor, even for instruction in a dead language, entirely prevented the old manual from becoming diverse in its different editions. The Grammar of English Grammars He attacks the curriculum and tells us we must reduce or revolutionise instruction and exercise in the dead languages, introduce a broader handling of history, a more inspiring arrangement of scientific courses, and so forth. An Englishman Looks at the World So, too, our colleges are provided, over and above the various dead languages of their classic curriculum, with the two tongues. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Miss Blimber "had no nonsense about her," but had grown "dry and sandy with working in the graves of dead languages." Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Their classical ideals and formal methods made dead languages, mathematics, philosophy etc., the school diet of boys whose normal hunger was for action, and for learning by doing. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 The inflections which now compose the declensions and conjugations of the dead languages, and which indeed have ever constituted the peculiar characteristics of those forms of speech, must remain forever as they are. The Grammar of English Grammars For classic literature, which it is so common for the superficial to decry, he was a great advocate, and to evince his sincerity retained his knowledge of the dead languages as long as he lived. A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade He showed that the Gascon was not yet a dead language; and he lifted it to the level of the most serious themes. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist If they have sometimes recourse to learned etymologies, vanity will induce them to search at the roots of the dead languages; but erudition does not naturally furnish them with its resources. Democracy in America — Volume 2 There were but few books anywhere, in that day, and only the well-to-do and highly educated possessed them, they being almost confined to the dead languages. What Is Man? and Other Essays "The first error that I would mention, is, a too general attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own." The Grammar of English Grammars At any rate I was just acquiring a taste for philosophy and the dead languages when my father died suddenly of a paralytic shock, and I had to set about earning a living. Prester John I do not think I was much the better for my small acquaintance with the dead languages. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography This is the reason why, in another work, I have arrived at the conclusion that the absolute translation of a language, especially of a dead language, is totally impossible. The Crowd; study of the popular mind The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Lay Morals Not that the pronunciation of a dead language is of much importance; yet your accents and quantities have a grotesque sound to my ears. A Pair of Blue Eyes But instead of better qualifying themselves for these occupations they have been poring over dead languages and working problems in mathematics. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue In the course of a month or two after the receipt of the books Jude had grown callous to the shabby trick played him by the dead languages. Jude the Obscure The light words are taken to be grave because they meet the modern critic's eye clothed in the majesty of a dead language; and thus it comes to pass that their very meaning is misunderstood. The Life of Cicero Volume One I admit he does understand the dead languages. Satanstoe He used it as a living language; the poetasters of the eighteenth century wrote it as a dead language, as boys make Latin verses. Milton In fact, there are many white people in the South at the present time who do not know that instruction in the dead languages is not given at the Tuskegee Institute. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue The idea of taking a child five and a half years old, and making it learn a dead language by abstract rules, is of itself a great error. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Logic is not confirmed to, nor has it been buried with, the dead languages. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest A good many of the women have taken up English, but they learn it as a dead language, and they give it a comical effect by trying to pronounce it as it is spelled. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance From Ezra to the end of the reign of the Maccabees, when it was gradually lost in the Aramaean or Chaldaic tongue, and became a dead language. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities They had no venerated classics, no holy books, no dead languages to master, no authorities to check their free speculation. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform In fact, my tutor's mind was so imbued with the dead languages that he was unable to write his own, but had constant recourse to Greek and Latin to make his meaning clear. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Since French was a dead language to Mr. Arthur Jastrow, he never knew what it was that Miss Carteret named him. A Fool for Love Teach him not dead languages, but living facts. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day The attention of the literary men of this time was wholly engrossed by the study of the dead languages, and of manners, customs, and religious systems equally extinct. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The Hebrew, it was generally held, had once been alive, but now it belonged among the dead languages, in the same sense as the Greek and the Latin. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) He did not think that education should be confined to the two dead languages, but incited the boys to learn French and German, and even chemistry. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 In the case of a dead language, like the Latin, which the pupil never hears spoken, and seldom hears read, except by himself or his equally ignorant and hobbling fellow-scholars, this difficulty is inordinately increased. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it In a certain sense, therefore, Latin was studied as a dead language, while it was still a living one. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius For one thing, they teach something besides dead languages in colleges nowadays. Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks The severe rules upon which the acquisition of the dead languages is built would of course be a great means for attaining the logical habits in question. Friends in Council — First Series One never knows how little one does know of a dead language till one tries to talk it. Dawn Johnson, it seems, differed from Boileau, Voltaire, and D'Alembert, who had taken upon them to proscribe all modern efforts to write with elegance in a dead language. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes George I. had no conception of anything abstract: taste, erudition, science, art, were like a dead language to his common sense, his vulgar profligacy, and his personal predilections. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 He loved romances, old plays, travels, and poetry too well, ever to become distinguished in philosophy, mathematics, or the dry study of dead languages. The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border She was dry and sandy with working in the graves of dead languages. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction Versification in a dead language is an exotic, a far-fetched, costly, sickly imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and spontaneous perfection. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam In the same manner some of their first prose compositions are in a dead language. Four Early Pamphlets The old Bactrian tongue in which the Avesta was composed became practically a dead language. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations However, if I had any ambition at that time, it was not to become a professor of dead languages, but to see what I could make of my own. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) These works, composed in dead languages, and written in strange and unknown characters, were further provided with commentaries more voluminous and inexplicable than the text. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales You will remember that the Hebrew was a dead language while our Lord was on the earth, the Jews of Palestine speaking the Aramaic. Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People The elegant dialect of the Koran is studied as a dead language, even in the birth-place of the prophet. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 For the uninitiated traveller it was a dead language, but to the young pilot it gave up its most cherished secrets. Mark Twain They can converse in foreign tongues; they are familiar with dead languages, and with the superstitions, observances, and quarrels of certain races, barbarous or otherwise, who existed thousands of years ago. A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household But we can get some inkling of the number by the fact that philologists estimate that for every living language there are twenty dead languages. Sociology and Modern Social Problems Here he was very studious, and his skill in Greek and Latin made the professors in dead languages feel to see that their laurels were in place. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Should I examine you in the dead languages, would not your living accents charm from me all power of reproof? Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 Thus, if Dutch should become a dead language, English and German would be separated by a wider gap. The Antiquity of Man Those which are little diffused would become dead languages; but the Indian, in preserving an American idiom, would retain his individuality—his national character. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 But what I say now, as I said at the beginning, is that Latin and Greek are dead languages. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales The assertion will scarcely be credited, but I do assert that I have no recollection of other tuition except that in the dead languages. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope A richer nature than foggy England was spread out before him in treacherous Hindostan with its warring tribes, its dying creeds, its dead languages, its history sweeping far back into the mists of the unknown. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story And how comes it that the tongues now spoken do not pass by insensible gradations the one into the other, and into the dead languages of dates immediately antecedent? The Antiquity of Man To conceal their deficiencies teachers choose the dead languages, in which we have no longer any judges whose authority is beyond dispute. Emile What I maintain is that Latin and Greek are not dead languages, because they still convey living thoughts. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales I was duly qualified by a painfully acquired ignorance of dead languages cautiously to approach my own; and 'twas no better. Pagan Papers "Oh, that's a dead language that some people used a long, long time ago." The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Red tape, a dead language, and a horde of shysters! The Spoilers After this let him win fame or not in dead languages, in literature, in poetry, I care little. Emile But they are hid from the common people in a dead language, and when a Prof. Jowett gives them glorious resurrection in our vernacular, they are still hid from the common people by their subtlety. Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. Talk of the pleasures of the dead languages, indeed! why, how many jolly nights have you and I, Larkyns, passed 'down among the dead men!' Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers "People who talk about what they call culture!" said he contemptuously; "by which they mean a smattering of the two dead languages of Greek and Latin." Culture and Anarchy In the ancient language of the Hindoos, the Sanscrit--which has been a dead language for twenty-two hundred years--the magnet was called "the precious stone beloved of Iron." Atlantis : the antediluvian world But the world can never be really touched by a dead language and a dead civilization. Major Barbara But though thus put under petticoat government, Mr. Verdant Green was not altogether freed from those tyrants of youth, - the dead languages. Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green It afterwards goes to school, where its genius is killed by the barren study of a dead language, and the philosopher is lost in the linguist. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason It may be that he understands the dead languages, but the living ones not in the least. Old Fritz and the New Era His attainments, however, in the dead languages were beyond those of most of his contemporaries, as the letter he sent to the Master and Seniors will abundantly prove. Cambridge Pieces Is it not to be presumed, by all the charters of the Universities and the foundations of grammar-schools, that he who can speak a dead language must be a fortiori conversant with his own? Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages. Essays — Second Series The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, but in their being dead, and the pronunciation entirely lost. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason Ancient and extinct forms of life are often intermediate in character, like the words of a dead language with respect to its several offshoots or living tongues. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 As for me, I don't often give them a chance, and when I get caught I talk science and dead languages till they run for their lives. Rose in Bloom It was not a dead language then, as it is now. For Greater Things; the story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka But one creature of the masculine gender taught in their school; he was white-haired Doctor Barnes, professor of the dead languages. Mary-'Gusta It would therefore be advantageous to the state of learning to abolish the study of the dead languages, and to make learning consist, as it originally did, in scientific knowledge. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason Madame, in particular, was evidently much upset, and expressed her angry agitation in a dead language that seemed positively to live again in fear and novelty of grammatical construction. The Prophet of Berkeley Square The boys' main study remained the dead languages of Greece and Rome. Eminent Victorians There were but few books anywhere, in that day, and only the well-to-do and highly educated possessed them, they being almost confined to the dead languages. Is Shakespeare Dead? From my autobiography. He could write verse as well as prose in dead languages, not very correctly, but still, better than all his fellows—which constituted him a distinguished writer. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance Versification in a dead language is an exotic, a far-fetched, costly, sickly, imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and spontaneous perfection. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 "No, sir—ladies do not often study the dead languages." Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief It would be enough if they could 'learn it grammatically as a dead language. Eminent Victorians And yet his writings are read beyond the Mississippi, and under the Southern Cross, and are likely to be read as long as the English exists, either as a living or as a dead language. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 His sonnets indeed, from their subject and nature, and his Latin Poems, from the restraints which always shackle one who writes in a dead language, cannot fairly be received in evidence. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 The word holiday is written in a dead language for me, and much I grieve at it. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 They are not students who prosecute a dead language with uncertain purpose, impelled only by natural genius or love of fame. Life of William Carey Except in the abandoned sphere of the dead languages, no one has discussed what part of education has, in his personal experience, turned out to be useful, and what not. The Education of Henry Adams The grammar of life we have gotten by heart, But life's self we have made a dead language—an art, Not a voice. Lucile I'll guarantee an increase of anywhere from ten thousand to a hundred thousand a year for any publication that isn't printed in a dead language. Options Now in talking about women it is prudent to disguise a prejudice like this, in the security of a dead language, and to intrench it behind a fortress of reputable authority. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness The service, being in a dead language, is intelligible only to the learned; and the great majority of the congregation may be said to assist as spectators rather than as auditors. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 The Greeks had nothing alien to study—not even a foreign or a dead language. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft She even knew it in Latin, only a few days before a dead language to her, but now one filled with life and meaning. New Chronicles of Rebecca I can make the dead languages serve me the better to speak the living words here. A Master's Degree The writer, whose name has escaped me, opined that the reason the works of Pater and Wilde were no longer read was owing to both authors having treated English as a dead language. Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde It may easily be supposed that a dead language, neglected at the Universities, was not much studied by men of the world. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 I make no war on the dead languages. The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it You suddenly began the study of the dead languages, and the Latin dictionary took the place of the crochet needle in your affections. New Chronicles of Rebecca The Australian zoologist ought to rake up some more dead languages, and then go Out Back with a few bush cats. On the Track Yet there are times and seasons when it seems to come in better than familiarity with the dead languages, or much skill upon the lute. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Yet their instruction, alas! contained no LIFE—in the mouths of those teachers a dead language savoured merely of carrion. Dead Souls So it was I occupied my mind with the exact study of dead languages for seven long years. The New Machiavelli |
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