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 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1902 - 362 sidor
...as man. can be. He speaks Latin, German, Flemish, Italian, ajid Spanish. The King, besides, speaks the language of the savages who live in some parts of Scotland " (Professor Mackinnon says this is the latest statement he knows of regarding a Scottish King's knowledge... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1902 - 364 sidor
...handsome ae man can be. He speaks Latin, German, Flemish, Italian, and Spanish. The King, besides, speaks the language of the savages who live in some parts of Scotland " (Professor Mackinnou says this is the latest statement he knows of regarding a Scottish King's knowledge... | |
 | 1903 - 284 sidor
...all this may not improbably lie in a further statement of Don Pedro. The king, he tells us, speaks " the language of the savages who live in some parts of Scotland and on the islands." James IV. was, so fur HS we know, the last king of Scotland or Great Britain who could speak Gaelic.*... | |
 | William Cook Mackenzie - 1906 - 442 sidor
...carried appreciable weight with the sentimental Highlanders. " He spoke," says a contemporary writer, " the language of the savages who live in some parts of Scotland and on the islands " ; and he was probably the last King of Scotland or Great Britain of whom this could be said. The... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1906 - 360 sidor
...speaking of the accomplishments of James IV. as a linguist, observes : — " The King speaks besides the language of the savages, who live in some parts of Scotland and on the Islands. It is as different from Scotish as Biscayan is from Castilian." These savages spoke the Celtic. We... | |
 | John Strong - 1909 - 306 sidor
...Italian, and Spanish.' In the same letter he continues : ' His knowledge of languages is wonderful. He is well read in the Bible and in some other devout books. He Is a good historian. He has read many Latin and French histories, and profited by them, as he has a... | |
 | Eric Stair-Kerr - 1911 - 164 sidor
...to Ferdinand and Isabella concerning the King of Scots : " His knowledge of languages is wonderful. He is well read in the Bible and in some other devout books. He is a good historian. He has read many Latin and French histories, and has profited by them as he has... | |
 | Ida Ashworth Taylor - 1913 - 372 sidor
...as the Marquis, but he pronounces it more distinctly. . . . His knowledge of languages is wonderful. He is well read in the Bible and in some other devout books. He is a good historian. He has read many Latin and French histories and profited by them, as he has a... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - 1914 - 658 sidor
...ambassador, states that, in addition to Latin, he spoke the principal European languages, and also " the language of the savages who live in some parts of Scotland and in the islands." Erasmus eulogises him in his Adagio, as having "a wonderful force of intellect, an... | |
 | Eleanor Mabel Valentine Brougham (Hon.) - 1926 - 314 sidor
...Scottish language is as different from English as Aragonese from Castilian. The King speaks, besides, the language of the savages who live in some parts of Scotland and on the islands. It is as different from Scottish as Biscayan is from Castilian. His knowledge of languages is wonderful.... | |
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