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...This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at . The Language Learning Collections contain readings from various language learning books, grammars, primers, phrasebooks, dictionaries, readers and even other works which contain information on ...

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...ientific (Lobacevsky, Riemann, Banach, etc.) spaces, thus a poem can be; an object, a being, a phenomenon, a status ... understandable in a universal language. And further, using mathematics and literature, he got to the Paradoxist Philosophy with the thesis that "Nothing is noncontradictorial" ....

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... 37 Literary activity Affiliations............................... 38 The Paradoxist Literary Movement................. 39 Books written in English language................. 39 Books written in Romanian language............... 40 Books written in French language.................. 41 Contributions to many journals................... 42 Literary papers....................

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...s MS. I find thus described in M. F. J. Marchal?s catalogue of that priceless collection: Le Roman de Saint Graal, beginning ?Ores lestoires?, in the French language; date, first third of the sixteenth century; with ornamental capitals.?2...

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... The High History of the Holy Graal Author Unknown Originally written in Old French, sometime in the early half of the 13th Century A.D., as a continu... ...ess collection: Le Roman de Saint Graal, beginning “Ores lestoires”, in the French language; date, first third of the sixteenth century; with ornamen... ...lection: Le Roman de Saint Graal, beginning “Ores lestoires”, in the French language; date, first third of the sixteenth century; with ornamental cap... ...l known, having been lent to M. de Sainte Palaye for use in the Monuments of French History issued by the Benedictines of the Congregation of St Maur.... ...may be the date of the Welsh version, the translator had no great mastery of French, and is often at fault as to the meaning both of words and sentenc... ... one little chapter, from which it would seem that the Welshman had read the French, but thought it waste of pains to translate it. In all, not to spe...

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...Pascal's Pensées is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular section (Thought #72), Sainte-Beuve praised it as the finest pages in the French language. Will Durant, in his 11-volume, comprehensive The Story of Civilization series, hailed ...

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...Excerpt: If the French have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is excessive...

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...nsieur Achille Deveria An affectionate remembrance from the Author. IF THE FRENCH have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propen... ...on for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than En- gland is ... ... thinking, but does not say, the spirit of the unspoken, which is half the French language, is nowhere else to be met with. Hence a French- man, whose... ...ng, but does not say, the spirit of the unspoken, which is half the French language, is nowhere else to be met with. Hence a French- man, whose raille... ... land like an uprooted tree. Emigration is counter to the instincts of the French nation. Many French- men, of the kind here in question, have owned t... ...aring hyperbole of patriotism. This preamble is intended to recall to such Frenchmen as have traveled the extreme pleasure they have felt on occa- sio... ...ry of the harem brings out in Oriental women, they would lend a com- plete language of flowers to the wreaths they wear on their head. T o please my o... ...lack skill; but you will acknowledge that literature could never find such language in its assumed pathos; there is nothing so terrible as truth. Here... ...am so tremulous with happiness that you must forgive the incoherency of my language. It will be so for a long time yet.” “ ‘ “There is no crime in bei...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2....

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... CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We eas... ...ommunity flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast to... ...h Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English.... ...dinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Tr... ...mply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Ou... ... such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The d... ... together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. Invaders from the North We now step back in time an... ...already mingled with those of their Viking cousins on the island. The French language of King William‘s Norman courtiers may have had even greate... ...as the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more time in southwestern France or on crusade than in En...

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This is a booklet of poems in three languages: English, Urdu and French

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...devised by journalist/author Dave McKay. The program, which paraphrases classic novels, primarily targets people who are learning English as a second language. It enables older students to quickly read classic novels despite having a very limited reading vocabulary. Each book has a number on the cover, showing how many different English words were used in McKay's translati...

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...lic Library Literary Machine Translation System (LMTS), is an automated translation service that provides automated translations between 58 different languages. It produces translated editions of all of our 2,000,000 eBooks. Each eBooks will be available to be downloaded in any combinations of our supported languages. With World Public Library Machine Translation Editio...

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... eBooks All of our 2,000,000 eBooks will shortly be available in multiple language editions. Each eBook will have the option to be read in any of... ...language editions. Each eBook will have the option to be read in any of 58 languages. The original eBook is automatically converted by our Literar... ...ranslation service that provides automated translations between 58 different languages. It produces translated editions of all of our 2,000,000 eBook... ...ook will be available to be downloaded in any combinations of our supported languages. With World Public Library Machine Translation Editions, we ho... ...pe to make information universally accessible and useful, regardless of the language in which it’s written. How does it work? When World Publi... ...h  Danish  Dutch  English  Estonian  Filipino  Finnish  French  Galician  German  Greek  Hebrew  Hindi  Hungari...

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...]\0 restrictions by any political system were imposed to me and no fear. It was like a lyrical fiesta that I enjoyed, .. This poetry volume, in seven languages, is a result of my "aggressive" cooperation and thousands of letters I sent (and received) between 1990-2000 since I exiled to and lived in America. In February 1991 I was invited to give a speech and read some of m...

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...s-tu rien venir ? In this book, published in 1742, Charles Perrault accompanies his Tales of passed times, by Mother Goose, with witty morals. In the French language, let us discover or rediscover what happens to Cinderella, the Sleeping Beauty and their folk-tales peers. (Summary by Ezwa)...

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...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possibl...

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... During the 19th century, and for nearly the first half of the 20th century, French women were not allowed to vote, nor to have a bank account or pas... ...; there seemed to be no point in doing so. “As do I,” Erik responded in that language, without a trace of his native French accent. He turned more sol... ...o. “As do I,” Erik responded in that language, without a trace of his native French accent. He turned more solemn then. “I saw your cousin in the vil... ... I could not help overhearing the girl’s remark about “that bloody ignorant French woman.” Before long the musical evening was upon us. I was qu... ...th the plate when I overheard Alice Harrington discussing me. “Well, she is French, you know. They’re all lazy creatures. Her husband is a charming... ...Look at these books she reads: Balzac and Hugo. I ask you. Everyone knows French books are filled with filth. And I hear she drinks absinthe.” Al... ...ugh a tangle in her dull red mane. “Pauvre ange.” I reverted to my native language for just a moment, calling the horse “poor angel,” and there I ... ... and I was too bereft to care. I wanted real friends, friends who spoke my language and did not mock me behind my back. It seemed such a simple th...

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...hat is ready to grasp the concepts in The Zohar. Now, we can put these principles into practice in our lives. Written in a unique and metaphorical language, The Zohar: annotations to the Ashlag Commentary enriches our understanding of reality and expands our worldview. However, this text should not be read in an ordinary fashion. We should patiently and repeatedly read ...

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...a Raba, Idra Zuta, and Safra de Tzniuta. All of them are expressed in the language of Kabbalah. Besides these articles, the rest of The Zohar is writ... ...Kabbalah. Besides these articles, the rest of The Zohar is written in the language of Midrash. In its original form, The Book of Zohar—written by Rab... ...acing of texts is the need to explain the meaning of The Zohar in several languages simultaneously: a) the language of Kabbalah (Sefirot, Partzufim,... ...e language of Kabbalah (Sefirot, Partzufim, Gematria, and worlds), b) the language of spiritual work (emotions), c) the language of the Torah (narra... ...ual work (emotions), c) the language of the Torah (narrative), and d) the language of the Talmud (judicial). To comprehend the style of The Book of ... ... and Turkish. In the near future, broadcasts will also be translated into French, Greek, Polish, and Portuguese. As with everything else, the live b...

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...de manifestos (1983, 1984, 1990, 1998, 2002, and 2010 respectively); - in the second part, the paradoxism collected from the international (English, French, Spanish/Arabic, and Romanian) folklore in images and paradoxist situations. ...

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...out even knowing – in a paradoxical way! We did it by jokes, against-the-grain speech, amusing themselves in that bad time! I had written in Romanian language the volume „Laws of internal composition. Poems with... problems!” (1982) as a preparadoxist volume, published lately. But the First Paradoxist Manifesto in the world of the Paradoxism I published in 1983 in the firs...

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...sto: 18 • Fifth Paradoxist Manifesto: 37 • Sixth Paradoxist Manifesto: 51 Worldwide Paradoxist Folklore: 60 All is possible, the impossible too! French Paradoxist Folklore: 86 Les Perles du BAC 2008 [Pearls of 2008 Baccalaureate] Spanish/Arabic Paradoxist Folklore: 127 Ser fuerte... / .. ما†ھي†القوة [To be strong] Romanian Paradoxist Folklore: 141-155 De ce, ta...

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...r life, anyone who wishes to find a happy, fulfilling life, will find the answers in this book. Since the days of The Zohar and the Tree of Life, the language of Kabbalah has never been as clear as it is in this moving piece. It is worthwhile contemplating the answers in the text, experiencing them in the simplest meaning of the word. Any student of Kabbalah, novice or adv...

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...hole of the Torah relates only to the spiritual world. It ex- plains it in the language of pictures, but not a single word of it speaks of our world.... ...Because the spiritual world is the world of emotions and has no words, we use languages such as the language of the Bible (Pentateuch), the language... ...as the language of the Bible (Pentateuch), the language of legends (Agada the language of legends (Agada the language of legends ( ), the language of... ... of legends ( ), the language of the Talmud (Jewish re- ligious laws), and the language of the Kabbalah (Sefirot), which is the most precise of all, ... ... to explain and describe that world. For that reason, most Kabbalists use the language of the Kabbalah. Within the Kabbalah are several sub-language... ... Kabbalah books in Arabic, and Kabbalists in the middle ages wrote in ancient French. Again, a language is only an outer dressing to help convey info...

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...88 writers (in addition of folklore collections) from 23 countries with texts in 17 languages (English, Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Tamil, Hindi, Indonesian, Hebrew, Italian, Urdu, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) contributed poetry, essays, letters to the editor, arts, sc...

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...officials--smartly-dressed in khaki pants, Polo shirts, and completely-ignored--drank tea and conducted their own conversation in an incomprehensible language. They were, after all, the owners of the crops these farmers were attempting--against increasingly-dismal odds--to grow. The women talked about people, mostly. They talked about babies born, children half-grown, y...

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...anaged to cross the border illegally and arrive in Turkey, where he taught French for a year and a half. In 1990 he reached the U.S.A. where he became... ...Bucharest, Editura " Litera" 1981. In 1983, the volume was translated into French by Chantal Signoret from the University of Provence and appeared in ... ...ms), Fès, Marocco, 1982, all in Romanian, and then, a series of volumes in French: Le sens du non­sens, Fès, Marocco, 1984, containing a non­conformis... ...The majority of his works were, fully or in part, translated into English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, some of them having a third edition in the U.S... ...s, a concrete reality, with quite a few elements of shock, all in a fluent language, with short sentences, written with nerve, reminding us of Hemingw... ...intellectual who escaped from the communist Romania". "He has the Romanian language, in all its expressivity, in the tip of his nib. The Oltean and th... ...e paradoxists experimenting with lucidity the tragical consequences of the language discrimination" (The Literary Paradoxist Movement; Xiquan Publishi... ...n every issue. Many of the Romanian ones are also presented in English and French. Florentin Smarandache is an authentic poet of haiku, whom we pr... ...allegory, comparison, metonymy, there is no doubt that this is his primary language, of the "reality of thought" ­above mentioned ­ where the flower o...

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...irituality and Kabbalah Chapter 8: Reincarnation and Kabbalah Chapter 9: The Language of Kabbalists: Branches Chapter 10: Sensing Reality throug... ...ous styles, each in accordance with the era in which they lived. In total, four languages were created to introduce us to our spiritual reality: the... ... (which includes the Five Books of Moses, the Prophets and the Scriptures), the language of legends, a legalistic language, and the language of Kabb... ...ribes the spiritual upper-worlds system and how to reach it. The differences in languages simply present various perspectives on the same subject in... ...e manner of the logic. It is rather like an ancient tongue translated into four languages. It is self-evident that the wisdom itself did not change a... ... you have a list of books or study materials that you could send me in English, French or Spanish? Unfortunately, there are no reputable, serious Ka...

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...on by one, Dr. James Barlow. The baby was less fortunate. In the meantime, the French obstetrician Baudeloque published a book describing dozen... ...ural responses to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli; (3) no evidence of language comprehension or expression; (4) intermittent wakefuln... ... sackecloth and buckram about the skirts with bents covered with fustian, a pair of french bodies of damaske lined with sackcloth, with whales bone... ...nued his education in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in Munich and in Geneva where he studied languages. But the chain of disappointments continued apace. He ... ..." published in 1953. It was the first of 12 James Bond thrillers, translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond ... ...ttp://casino.cchs.usyd.edu.au/csd/mig_site/1999_vol15_2/foreign_ac cent_syndrome.htm French Revolution The monarchy was far from absolute prior to th... ... The disaffection cut across class lines. Many noblemen spoke for the commoners. French nobleman Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, for i... ... professed atheism. Until the age of 18 He spoke very little English. His main language was Gujarati. He wanted to be a medical doctor - more... ...took less than half a second. More than 40,000 people were guillotined during the French Revolution and in its immediate aftermath (1789-1795). N...