Injury Time: A MemoirPimlico, 2003 - 183 Seiten D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language. |
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A Memoir Dennis Joseph Enright. I am always sorry when any language is lost , because languages are the pedigree of nations . Samuel Johnson Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country , is he who violates the ...
A Memoir Dennis Joseph Enright. I am always sorry when any language is lost , because languages are the pedigree of nations . Samuel Johnson Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country , is he who violates the ...
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... language of interior illumination ' wherein God expressed himself by thunderclaps and lightning ( cf. Cowper : He ' rides upon the storm ' ) ; that is , he spoke in a loud voice and his eyes flashed . Wouldn't the first language , this ...
... language of interior illumination ' wherein God expressed himself by thunderclaps and lightning ( cf. Cowper : He ' rides upon the storm ' ) ; that is , he spoke in a loud voice and his eyes flashed . Wouldn't the first language , this ...
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... language ' speaks in the language of nature ... thunders with the heavens , flashes lightning with the quick moving clouds , radiates with the hail , whispers with the wind ' and so on . Moreover German roars like the lion , snarls like ...
... language ' speaks in the language of nature ... thunders with the heavens , flashes lightning with the quick moving clouds , radiates with the hail , whispers with the wind ' and so on . Moreover German roars like the lion , snarls like ...
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