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Not as a man ashamed of the vernacular, and forced to use it because he can command no better, does Lorenzo write.
All this in his odd vernacular which Max tried to get the hang of, in order to judge whether it signified that the country boy lacked an education or not.
Fines, imprisonment, and martyrdom were inflicted on those who were guilty of so foul a crime as the reading or possession of the Scriptures in the vernacular tongue.
In illustrating the origin, and tracing the progress of our vernacular poetry, we had not kept pace with the industry of our continental neighbors.
Perhaps nowhere more than in Flanders do we meet with a systematic oppression of a vernacular idiom.
No degree of proficiency in an alien tongue can compensate for the neglect of the vernacular.
However, Miss Lucinda did live, and lived by the aid of "means," which, in the vernacular, is money.
Then he whipped again into the vernacular and spoke swiftly; for no further seconds were to be wasted.
As vernacular languages were used for poetry, problems of Hindi composition began to dwarf those of Sanskrit.
During the whole of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the vernacular was even more neglected than before.
In missionary schools moral and religious instruction may be given in the vernacular as an auxiliary to English in conveying such instruction.
That any religious denomination shall, at its discretion and entirely at its own cost, be allowed to conduct special classes in the vernacular for the training of teachers and preachers.
This was the first non-religious play in the vernacular, and its dependence on the earlier religious drama is striking.
There are indeed many words in the vernacular for which no corresponding character has been found in the literary style: but careful investigation is gradually diminishing the number.
John Clerk's vernacular version of the motto of the Celtic Club is highly characteristic of his humor and his prejudice.
He had not yet sold any tires for a two-ton truck, and he had just two fabrics and two cords, in trade vernacular.
It will, however, especially be noted that Boccaccio speaks of Dante as "training many scholars in poetry especially in the vernacular."
His style is still swift, still easy, still flexible, still accurate in its conformity to the vernacular.
Which, being interpreted into the vernacular of the author of "Sharps and Flats," spelled a popular "frost" and a financial failure.
Naturally awkward of phrase when deprived of his picturesque vernacular, he stumbled among phrases.
The only course seems to be a fair translation of the vernacular of the period of the tale into our own everyday English.
The object being to substitute for many of the polynomial terms, technical and vernacular, now in use, technical names which are brief and consist of a single word.
A vernacular literature of great beauty, too important to be overlooked, began to spring up on all sides.
He was a man of much learning; but in conversation (and he talked much) he rarely rose above the odd Western vernacular, of which he was so complete a master.
She had acquired a certain amount of information concerning the art of speech, but in moments of strong feeling she lapsed into the vernacular.
Every line is rigid and without human feeling: the style, where any exists, is exotic, not national or local; classical, not vernacular.
The sacred books are printed in the vernacular, in marked contrast to the customs of the other sects.
It may at first seem no advantage to give up the common names of the vernacular and adopt the unfamiliar ones, but a word of explanation will make the object clear.
In some families of the vegetable kingdom we can appreciate better the application of this nomenclature, because we have something corresponding to it in the vernacular.
To be able to speak and write our vernacular tongue with accuracy and elegance, is, certainly, a consideration of the highest moment.
The Government still assumes to control these schools, and to tell the missionaries how much of the vernacular they may use, and how they must divide the hours between the two languages.
It is just as easy to teach children to speak correctly, and to call all things by their proper names, as to abuse their vernacular tongue.
Then, in vernacular English, he describes the infectious condition of the fort, which was full of the sick.
Two big blinding beads came into my eyes at that story, but they were soon dashed away by Martin who saw them coming and broke into the vernacular.
In the two Republics High Dutch rules for official purposes, but in common intercourse the vernacular Dutch is still about the same as it had been a hundred years ago.
This was said in the broadest vernacular dialect, as, indeed, was everything that dropped from the fishermen's lips.
They are exponents of the Saxon mind, frequently of more value than the vernacular writings.
From the earliest forms of speech several subordinate vernacular languages arose in various districts, and from these sprang local dialects, etc.
If he is willing to do so, can speak the vernacular, and can spare a brief hour from the rush of constant study and engagement, a conference will be possible.
The primitive worship of the sun, of light, of fire, has left its impress upon the language and in vernacular art and customs.
They have not only acquired a considerable vocabulary, but have now a practical mastery of our vernacular.
Despite her imperfect knowledge of English, and especially the vernacular, she had a shrewd intuition of what had passed between the two men.
Ray knew better; she was a good scholar, but she heard her mother and others like her talk vernacular every day.
The modern-Latin poets in all countries were the first, but their efforts soon gave place to attempts in the vernacular tongues.
They are noticeable as being the first writers to publish religious works, either original or translated, in the vernacular and this practice steadily increased.
And soon my suspicions were confirmed by a confused shouting in the vernacular, and a rush of men from lanes not a hundred yards away.
With the help of such men Alfred gave a new impulse to literature, not as Charles had done, in Latin merely, but as much, or even more, in his own vernacular.
The Merovingian Franks left no vernacular literature; on the contrary, they rapidly lost their native speech, and adopted that of the conquered nation.
It was no new thing to seek to arrest the public attention with the vernacular applied to public affairs.
She would not make the mistake of using the vernacular behind which Gypsy Nan sheltered herself.
Indeed, when we try to speak prose without having practiced it the result is apt to be worse than our own vernacular.
I suppose he got at last to three-cornered notes in the vernacular; and meanwhile what could a poor girl do?
It has also been partially rendered into the vernacular at the missionary stations, in opposite parts of the world.
That last speech of Lot's, which, like many of his speeches, seemed to her no human vernacular, added terror to her aversion of him.
Ellen, not being used to the school vernacular, did not fairly apprehend all this, and least of all that it was directed towards herself.
The words were in the vernacular, but the tone in which the young man spoke rang so confidently that it brought to Ford a pleasant thrill of satisfaction.
They are usually written in the favorite six-line stanza, the meter that flowed most easily from his pen, and in language are the richest vernacular.
The subjects and moods which evoked vernacular utterance were those that with all writers are more apt to yield poetry, and in consequence most of his best poetry is in Scots.
I quote exactly the rough vernacular of the lower classes in which she habitually expresses herself.
His sermons were always thought out in that language, and then translated into the vernacular, and this, perhaps, accounted in some degree for their stiffness and want of living interest.
The following is one of the three verses in which the barbarian proclaims his loss; the last two lines in the vernacular are the same for all.
Peters has equally distinguished himself in the field, Captain Clive tells me, but he is greatly your inferior in his knowledge of the vernacular.
This barber's apprentice, who despised the schools and wrote in the vernacular, made other important improvements in the surgeon's technique.
The clearest was the one he put at once before her in the vernacular he had never taken the least pains to modify.
There had been a wealth of Blister's own vernacular used on the stage during the evening, and I had rather enjoyed it all.
There is little or no trace in the vernacular Christmas plays of direct translation from one language into another, though there was some borrowing of motives.
Don't take me to task if you hear me saying things in the vernacular of the railroad grade.
To be an educated man in his own vernacular has become an impossibility, he must either become a mental subject of one of the greater languages or sink to the intellectual status of a peasant.
Micawber put the thing in more simple vernacular when, he said that he was waiting for something to turn up.
Classical scholarship at first scorned the vernacular literatures, and did all its work of criticism and imitation in the Latin tongue.
By the time I was ready to leave the recruiting offices I felt that I had made great progress in the vernacular.
Freed from old traditions and prejudice, our common school is now grounded in the vernacular, in the national history and literature, and in home geography and natural science.
Their spoken language he reduced to a written form, and gave them, in their vernacular, the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; with a commentary on Genesis and on Daniel.
With the Hebrew he was familiar; and the Arabic, by far the most difficult of all, was to him a second vernacular.
These are followed by an endless series of books of Hours, which, as the sixteenth century is reached, appear in several vernacular languages.
"I've done my best, but all the time I feel as if I were just trying to kid myself, in the vulgar vernacular."
These and the corpse ghosts, however, are only vernacular articles and do not attack Sahibs.
Jean and David had seen the light of a great joy flame up in their comrade's gray eyes, and in the old hunter's vernacular, they were "satisfy."
"All" the languages of India were to be taught, the vernacular as well as the classical and purely official.
It was the vernacular of the best society in Europe, and no living man was so perfect a master of it.
Any candidate who knows, but the elements of Sanskrit grammar will well understand what I mean, whether his special vernacular may be Bengali, Hindustani, or even Tamil.
There are also the humorous and pathetic studies in Roadside Philosophers and the like, in which, forty years ago, Meredith anticipated, with the dignity of a poet, the vernacular studies of others.
We may, e.g., on the basis of the vernacular language build up a foreign language system as a means either to commercial intercourse or to literary culture.
To begin with, he is the first in English, if not the first in any modern language, to attempt in the vernacular a general history, old as well as new, new as well as old.
All these except, for obvious reasons, the first, tended away from Latin into the vernaculars as time went on, and were but of lesser literary moment, even while they continued to be written in Latin.
The vernacular languages were not as yet in case to produce anything so complicated as this, and some of them have never been quite able to produce it to this day.
With no extraordinary beauty, she however displayed the fascination of classical learning, and a vein of vernacular poetry refined and fanciful.
To effect this noble aim, the highest to which the talents of a monarch can be applied, he for a length of time devoted his mind to the translation of Latin authors into the vernacular tongue.
It must have been a rhyming formula in the vernacular, which had a life of its own quite outside its adoption into literature.
Many manuscripts of the Latin version have survived, and it was translated into several vernaculars, including English, and profoundly influenced surgery.
The practical man is interested in a present situation for what can be done with it; he wants to know, in the vernacular, "What comes next?"
Thus is my coat, as it were, without buttons by which any, but a vernacular wild bore can seize me.
The work was to have been completed in three volumes, of which the first two were to contain works published in the vernacular, and the third those printed in Latin.
Moreover, in the vernacular everything would have appeared too direct, too personal, too real, for his taste.
Indignation prevented him from replying; while she went on, getting more vernacular as she proceeded.
We arrived in time for service, and enjoyed the natives' voices raised in the Latin chants as well as in hymns wisely put into the vernacular.
In considering these Old Testament names it must be remembered that the people did not possess the Bible in the vernacular.
It is worthy of remark, that not a single lecture is delivered in the vernacular language of the country.
If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest sign of decay.
Had instruction in all the branches of learning been given through the vernaculars, I make bold to say that they would have been enriched wonderfully.