The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper - Grāmatas -  - 9798671107708 - 2020. gada 29. oktobris
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The Last of the Mohicans

Book Excerpt: ...even convey different significations by the simplest inflections of the voice. Philologists have said that there are but two or three languages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United States. They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to corruptions and dialects. The writer remembers to have been present at an interview between two chiefs of the Great Prairies west of the Mississippi, and when an interpreter was in attendance who spoke both their languages. The warriors appeared to be on the most friendly terms, and seemingly conversed much together; yet, according to the account of the interpreter, each was absolutely ignorant of what the other said. They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and it is worthy of remark, that a common policy led them both to adopt the same subject. They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the cha...

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Izlaists 2020. gada 29. oktobris
ISBN13 9798671107708
Lapas 346
Izmēri 152 × 229 × 20 mm   ·   508 g
Valoda Angļu  

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