Search Details

Word: unabhangigkeitserklarung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...seems odd; but for this very reason, I conceive, the study of it is peculiarly valuable to a speaker of English. If one knows Latin, French is already half familiar. Though one be ignorant of Latin, one knows what is meant by "grande nation" or by "declaration d'independance". "Unabhangigkeitserklarung" is a decidedly more baffling symbol for the letter idea. Yet what, upon close attention, could be clearer? What joy is comparable to that of discovery? And what is more certainly the evidence of training than the habit of close attention? Linguistic discipline, like all discipline, is irksome; but like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEFORE SPECIALIZING, STUDY GERMAN AS APPROACH TO LIBERAL ARTS, SAYS HOWARD | 5/26/1925 | See Source »

| 1 |