...ority Religion: 94% Roman Catholic, 4% Angli- can, 2% other Language: Irish (Gaelic) and English (official); English is widely spoken Infant mortality... ...Organized labor: 36% of labor force Government Official name: Ireland, Eire (Gaelic) Type: republic Capital: Dublin Administrative divisions: 26 count... ...Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Society of Friends Language: English, Manx Gaelic Literacy: compulsory education between ages of 5 and 15 Labor forc... ...force: 1.66 million (1980); 732,806 (1980) in salaried employment; 54% agri- culture, 25% government, 9% industry and commerce, 8% services Government... ...men 59.5, women 65.1 Literacy: 82% Labor force: 26 million (1984); 73% agri- culture, 11% industry and commerce, 10% services, 6% government; 8% unemp... ...anguage: English, Welsh (about 26% of population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland) Infant mortality rate: 10.1/1,000 (1983... ...n 53.3, women 56.8 Literacy: 45-55% Labor force: 1,985,000 (1985); 78% agri- culture; 18% mining, manufacturing, construction; 4% transport and servic...

...re russet and hodden, with their rude arms, rude array, with their fanatic Gaelic frenzy and wild-yelling battle-cry of God and the King, dash at us l... ...rench Revolution - V olume Three The men were men of parts, of Philosophic culture, decent behaviour; not condemnable in that they were Pedants and ha... ...y. Forward, ye Soldiers of the Repub- lic, captain and man! Dash with your Gaelic impetuosity, on Austria, England, Prussia, Spain, Sardinia; Pitt, Co... ...f Winter, the flowers of Summer continue to be stained with warlike blood. Gaelic impetuosity mounts ever higher with vic- tory; spirit of Jacobinism ... ...me to cover the scalp of a Cordwainer: her blond German Frankism his black Gaelic poll, if it be bald. Or they may be worn affectionately, as relics; ... ...tonishment, and strange pangs. 259 Thomas Carlyle Such a fire is in these Gaelic Republican men; high-blaz- ing; which no Coalition can withstand! No...

...h they recalled and commemorated better days, but was besides an exercise of culture, where all they knew of art and letters was united and expressed.... ...t part of the world like the easterly haar. Even on the map, its long row of Gaelic 81 Robert Louis Stevenson place-names bear testimony to an old an... ...s, it should be observed, the curse of Babel is here added; the Lews men are Gaelic speak- ers. Caithness has adopted English; an odd circumstance, if... ... not what to call it – an eldritch-look- ing preacher laying down the law in Gaelic about some one of the name of Powl, whom I at last divined to be t... ... the coach-top was crowded with Lews fishers going home, scarce anything but Gaelic had sounded in my ears; and our way had lain through- out over a m...

...he great peals of Ben Kyaw. The Mountain of the Mist, they say the words signify in the Gaelic tongue; and it is well named. For that hill-top, which ... ...rd, till the day he died, said only one form of words; what they were in the origi- nal Gaelic I cannot tell, but they were thus translated: ‘Ah, the ... ...ulpit voice, but not a word was comprehensible. I tried him first in En- glish, then in Gaelic, both in vain; so that it was clear we must rely upon t... ...; and before I had time to under- stand, Rorie also had appeared, calling directions in Gaelic as to a dog herding sheep. I took to my heels to interf... ...untry lad, such as the doctor had described, mighty quick and active, but devoid of any culture; and this first impression was with most observers fin...

...ly, a house or two appeared, standing high upon the ankles of the hills, and one of these surrounded with what seemed a garden. These conspicuous habi... ...loha Hawaiian Hale Aloha 11 Robert Louis Stevenson Marquesan Ha’e Kaoha The elision of medial consonants, so marked in these Marquesan instances, is ... ... the day came, it would show pine, and heather, and green fern, and roofs of turf sending up the smoke of peats; and the alien speech that should next... ...all him, because when he first visited the islands his arm was in a sling. Captain Hart, a man of English birth, but an American subject, had con- cei... ... brightness. Both are somewhat wider than Fakarava, measuring perhaps (at the widest) a quar- ter of a mile from beach to beach. In both, a coarse kin... ...rd of Cook. The inference was obvious: the explorer was a myth. So hard it is, even for a man of great natural parts like Tembinok’, to grasp the idea...

....) the sons of the Saxon Puritans, with their Old-Saxon temper, Old-Hebrew culture, sleek Silas, sleek Benjamin, here on such errand, among the light ... ...creatures, how shall he, in all Philosophe-soirees, and saloons of elegant culture, become notable as a Friend of Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes... ... considerate North-blooded Mountaineers of Jura; sharp Bretons, with their Gaelic suddenness; Normans not to be overreached in bargain: all now animat... ...The French Revolution Frankish: nevertheless, does not the old Gaulish and Gaelic Celthood, with its vehemence, effervescent promptitude, and what goo... ...ereditary Repre- sentative be wise and lucky, may one not, with a sanguine Gaelic temper, hope that he will get in motion better or worse; that what i... ...res them to the last man. ‘O Peuple, envy of the universe!’ Peuple, in mad Gaelic effervescence! Surely few things in the history of carnage are painf... ...re russet and hodden, with their rude arms, rude array, with their fanatic Gaelic frenzy and wild-yelling battle-cry of God and the King, dash at us l... ...out a sigh from most Historians. The men were men of parts, of Philosophic culture, decent behaviour; not condemnable in that they were Pedants and ha...

...fer ideas absolutely sepa- rate and exclusive to themselves. In the highly cultured lan- guages of England, France, and Germany, are words, by thou- s... ...n locked up in a language destined, as surely as the Welsh language or the Gaelic, to eternal obscurity amongst men, I go on to mention that the learn... ...n its motive, but unfortu- nately operating with the full effect of genial culture. Mas- ters, who have made themselves notorious by indiscriminate fo... ...slamism, even in its palmy con- dition, for amalgamating with any superior culture. And the specific action of Mahometan ism in the African case, as c...