...,” and reflects the way that Latin speakers viewed early Christianity as a phenomenon of the countryside, much as the English heathen , or German Heide , derives from a root meaning “heath.” Greek-speaking Christians, by contrast, used a variety of terms, but their favored one was Hellene , which reflected...

... and certainty. A line of descent is drawn from the speaker of Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy to Dostoevsky's underground man, and the latter is shown to differ from the former mainly in that the underground man sympathizes consciously with Descartes's bête noire , the “evil deceiver” (Descartes's...

... and determinism on Wilde's gospel of inaction, as well as Pater's adaptation of the Winckelmannian view that people and things express their nature most truly when still, one speaker wonders whether aesthetic experience gains some of its significance from its affiliation with leisure. The other resists the idea...

... by a year-long strike of its coal miners were stirred again by a recent visit to the United States to attend a conference on Catholic Social Teaching where the growing social and legal acceptance of homosexuality and the continued toleration of lawful abortion were both angrily denounced by two speakers who...

... falling in love with an Irish-speaker while he is in her country to translate Irish place-names into English for an imperial cartographic survey. While the lieutenant is referred to in the play as a Hibernophile, the essay interprets his love as xenophilic: love for the foreignness rather than...

... mundi , where material crosses are knocked down, into the civitas Dei , where outward signs signify a godly signified found elsewhere, both internally and transcendently. As the speaker shifts in the last three lines from the second-person singular to the first-person plural, the tone of the poem...

... what they mean. Take the case of Old Frankish * sal , meaning a single-roomed dwelling. The word was taken over by speakers of Vulgar Latin as sala , and by 1100 CE it had become a word of Anglo-Norman French, since in The Song of Roland it crops up as sale , meaning the living area of a castle...

... On ), whole of Baran of whole suspicious regime. a by athreat as read be forbreakfast”—could /youwere probablywhich saving icebox// the and were in /that plums eaten/the have toSayI Just is “This in advises. speaker at arm’s her solicitous length,” keptyourself always /and toyourself...

... as nostalgic, but the nostal represented in spatial terms but glossed by the speaker as temporal (“If the street Wearily” / “turning of iconography This backward. look to speaker the requires parting their that so street”) the of end the at he (“and them between distance crete...

... , there to to is is - - say the agent the say them. In Hare’s case, it is the shamelessness of the end that suggests that how we nature of the end may itself suggest attention to such subsidiary ends or neglect of the neglectmay someitimpropriety. cases, speaker without In another though may properly have one...

... the English right English the meaning to it?to meaning doin not awordhave that equivalent languages other and ofEnglish speakers...

... with white soap bubbles (fragment 63). The beauty of the depiction arises solely from the speaker's whimsical poetic imagination and her philosophy respecting the “suchness” of the real. 3 “Suchness” remains a constantly powerful presence in the novel, for example in fragment 8: (8) I'm thinking about...

.... Vladimir Alexandrov, TheBlackRussian speakers of Latin and the vernacular form of Latin that would become modern modern would become that of Latin form vernacular the and of Latin speakers includedspeakers, Greek mixture this century, fifteenth the to From twelfth the of cultures. mix...

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...: A woman is giving a paper. It is an attack on another woman’s recent book; the entire paper is devoted to demolishing it, and the speaker is doing a superb job. The audience has begun to catch the spirit of the paper, which is witty, elegant, pellucid...

.... Vladimir Alexandrov, TheBlackRussian speakers of Latin and the vernacular form of Latin that would become modern modern would become that of Latin form vernacular the and of Latin speakers includedspeakers, Greek mixture this century, fifteenth the to From twelfth the of cultures. mix...

...(whether offor destinations one’spresent or virtual) isa remarks simultaneously or actually other, the addressing party can generate distortions, especially when one main speaker, while explicitly ness; and both of these can be However,functions. useful the presence function of may...

... Surrealism. She calls into question the Surrealists’ claim that that claim Surrealists’ the question into She calls Surrealism. The speaker does not, as Bakhtin...

... to opposed as linguistic, any there Are orMalay? Chinese than rather ofwhy English question the numbers, large appear.to like sometimes they than ofEnglish views own their in driven cally English- that conclusions his own at surprised seems He speakers. by its defined...

... French speakers (one the English wife of a French soldier and the of aFrench the soldier and wife (one English ­French the speakers...