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No references found	Among our still more modern and dashing young gentlemen -- who are extremely averse to superfluous effort and supremely indifferent to the purity of their native language -- the formula is still further curtailed by the use of "to feel" in a technical sense, meaning, "to recommend-for-the-purposes-of-feeling-and-being-felt"; and at this moment the "slang" of polite or fast society in the upper classes sanctions such a barbarism as "Mr. Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context ~ An American sailor, who was cast away on the shore of Africa, where he was kept in slavery for three years, was, at the expiration of that period, found to be imbruted and stultified--he had lost all reasoning power; and having forgotten his native language, could only ut- ter some savage gibberish between Arabic and Eng- lish, which nobody could understand, and which even he himself found difficulty in pronouncing. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context All that they lacked was, the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolising, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context	Native American Church Native American languages Native American music Native American Music Awards Native American Rights Fund Native American Scenic Byway - North Dakota Native American Scenic Byway - South Dakota Native Americans Native Antimony native application Native Arsenic native asphalt Native Bismuth native capacity native coal native compiler Native Copper Native Dancer native dog Native Element native executable native format Native Gold Native Iron Native Islander Gullah Celebration native language Native Language System native metal native mode native paraffin Native Peoples, Offices of Native Platinum native resolution Native Silver Native Son native state Native Sulfur native uranium Natives, Middle American Natives, North American Natives, South American nativism Nativity Nativity of the Theotokos Nato Natorp, Paul natremia natric horizon natrium natriuresis natriuretic	native hens Native History Studies Group native holly Native Human Thyroid Peroxidase native immunity Native Indian Teacher Education Program Native Indian/Inuit Photographers' Association native indigo native indigo native indigo native indigo Native Input Output Native Inspection Services Initiative Native Instruments Elektrik Piano Native International Committee for Information Technology Standards Native IP Forwarding Native Irish Native Iron Native Island Business and Community Affairs Association Native Islander Gullah Celebration Native Joint Venture Corporation Native Labor Company Native Lan Service native land native land native land Native Land Husbandry Act of 1951 Native Land Trust Act Native Land Trust Board native language Native Language Arts Native Language Confederation Native Language Internet Address Native Language Internet Consortium Native language support Native Language System Native Law Students Association native leek native leek native leek native leek native lily native lily native lily native lily native loquat native loquat native loquat native loquat Native Low-Density Lipoprotein Native Maine Coon Cat Association Native Media and Technology Network Native Medicare Charitable Trust Native metal Native metal Native Metals Native Metals Native method native millet native millet

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Among our still more modern and dashing young gentlemen -- who are extremely averse to superfluous effort and supremely indifferent to the purity of their native language -- the formula is still further curtailed by the use of "to feel" in a technical sense, meaning, "to recommend-for-the-purposes-of-feeling-and-being-felt"; and at this moment the "slang" of polite or fast society in the upper classes sanctions such a barbarism as "Mr.

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context

~ An American sailor, who was cast away on the shore of Africa, where he was kept in slavery for three years, was, at the expiration of that period, found to be imbruted and stultified--he had lost all reasoning power; and having forgotten his native language, could only ut- ter some savage gibberish between Arabic and Eng- lish, which nobody could understand, and which even he himself found difficulty in pronouncing.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context

All that they lacked was, the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolising, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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