Languages

Examples

• Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerable antiquity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The young woman was very improvable, and spoke the languages; and wouldn't have been known for the same country-person. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is well known that Indians are of different tribes, nations, and languages, as well as the white people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Typewriters for short hand characters, and for foreign languages, and for printing on record and blank books, are also among the modern developments of this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Franklin's letters have been translated into most of the European languages and into Latin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is not a question of gaining a social advantage by a s mattering of foreign languages. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The southeastern fringe of it spoke French dialects; the bulk, Frisian, Dutch, and other Low German languages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now, Lina, I've had my lesson both in languages and ethics, with a touch on politics; it is your turn. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The students of languages (philologists) tell us that they are unable to trace with certainty any common features in all the languages of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The preservation of languages by exact reproduction of the manner of pronouncing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They talked in a mixture of languages. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I had begun in 1733 to study languages; I soon made myself so much master of the French as to be able to read the books in that language with ease. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Never before was such a collection of the languages of the world made. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• All Barsoomians speak the same tongue from the ice-clad south to the ice-clad north, though their written languages differ. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• These languages are not different things, they are variations of one thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was a brilliant musician; he talked several languages, and seemed to have been all over the world; but beyond this he was a mystery. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The universal prevalence of Slavonic languages, except in Hungary, shows that the population remained predominantly Slav. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The combined languages of Earth men hold no words to convey to the mind the gorgeous beauties of the scene. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Even the Semitic languages have been approached at a disadvantage because few Jews think in Hebrew. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You can play, sing, speak three or four languages? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It gives new motive to the study of foreign languages. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Many nations are represented, many languages spoken, many costumes worn, and on a sunny day the spectacle is as gay and brilliant as a carnival. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Moreover, the methods used for effective teaching of the languages were well developed; the inertia of academic custom was on their side. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I have begun to speak and understand, almost easily, the hard languages I told you about. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• They cannot even find any elements common to all the Caucasian languages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But it is developed upon lines absolutely different from those of the Aryan languages about it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From these circumstances, I have thought there was some inconsistency in our common mode of teaching languages. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The nice shades of nationality comprised in the above list, and the languages spoken by them, are altogether too numerous to mention. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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