Amaro Cavalcanti, himself well and practically versed in the spoken Tupi of to-day, who has issued a learned treatise to prove that “the Brazilian dialects present undoubtedly all the supposed characteristics of an agglutinative language, and belong to the same group as the numerous other dialects or tongues of America.”[319] Dr. To make reference to these matters is to break […]
Read moreThe impulse to greet merrily an allusion to the indecent, when it comes unexpectedly, taking us off our guard, so to speak, and when it is neither too pronounced nor enlarged upon, is, I believe, universal among men who laugh. Not only is the critic tempted outside of criticism. I recollect walking out to escape from one of the tenderest […]
Read moreThe principal of these is the _borru_, in which two polished pieces of damma wood are rubbed together, after being moistened with a few drops of water. Let an accidental noise, the falling of something in the next room, rouse you up, you constantly find something to associate it with, or translate it back into the language of your slumbering […]
Read moreForm comparison between and alternative of public education. We answer, in the preliminary stage of our existence. It was altered when it changed only some of its qualities, but still retained the same Specific Essence, and the same denomination. Hence the desire to get rid of the idea of the living animal even in ordinary cases by all the disguises […]
Read moreHe writes: The general tendency in all instruction today, including even that in preparatory and high schools, is from what may be called the few-book method to the many-book method–a recognition of the power of the printed page for which librarians have always stood sponsor. The limbs of the body politic which find themselves emaciated by under-feeding, while the belly […]
Read moreA single row of piles driven into the beach at right angles to the shore, wherever a shallow exists, will be sufficient, with plank fastened to them, to encourage the materials, brought by the tidal wave and current, to be retained and lodged against them. Astolpho’s voyage to the moon in Ariosto, they criticize sharply as a quaint and ridiculous […]
Read moreThat is the kind of man that I prefer.” Just a little philology here may throw additional light on our subject. Yet I suspect that a trace of it lurks, like a beaten foe, inexpugnable though greatly reduced in strength, in a large part of our laughter. Yet these are so. It is the speech which we constantly make upon […]
Read moreI cannot help thinking that some idea of this kind is frequently at the bottom of the perplexity which is felt by most people who are not metaphysicians (not to mention those who are) when they are told that the man is not the same with himself, their notion of identity being that he is the same with himself in […]
Read moreThe penitential of David, dating from the latter half of the sixth century, provides that perjury committed in a church shall be punished by a fine of four times the value of that for which the false oath was taken,[56] but no penalty is provided for false swearing elsewhere. We only need to compare the spectacle of a crowd in […]
Read moreBut when a set of adepts, of _illuminati_, get about a question, it is worth while to hear them talk. Now we give out nearly half a million a year from nearly 500 different points. I will however lay down two general maxims on this subject which will not admit of much controversy. Is not this an extension of the […]
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