 All the while we sleep the vast contingent of aliens whom we make welcome, and whose main contention, as I say, is that, from the moment of their arrival, they have just as much property in our speech as we have, and just as good a right to do what they...  Appleton's Magazine - Σελίδα 2091905Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Henry James - 1905 - 150 σελίδες
...care, less than other communities, but that we are the community in the world who should precisely v most indulge in them. We should rather sit up at night...anything and everything: all the while we sleep the in- numerable aliens are sitting up (they don't sleep !) to work their will on their new inheritance... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 σελίδες
...the while we sleep the vast contingent of aliens whom we make welcome, and whose main contention ... is that, from the moment of their arrival, they have...do what they choose with it — the grand right of Americans being to do just what he chooses 'over here' with anything and everything: all the while... | |
 | Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton - 1996 - 336 σελίδες
...of promiscuous material into the foundation of the American. "All the while we sleep," he continued, "the vast contingent of aliens whom we make welcome,...just as good a right to do what they choose with it ... all the while we sleep the innumerable aliens are sitting up (they don't sleep!) to work their... | |
 | John Carlos Rowe - 1998 - 260 σελίδες
...means of social articulation and thus discursive power: All the while we sleep the vast contingents of aliens whom we make welcome, and whose main contention,...and just as good a right to do what they choose with it—the grand right of the American being to do just what he chooses "over here" with anything and... | |
 | Michael North - 1994 - 272 σελίδες
...felt the presence of newly emigrated speakers of English quite literally as the invasion of a burglar: All the while we sleep the vast contingent of aliens...have just as much property in our speech as we have . . . all the while we sleep the innumerable aliens are sitting up (they don't sleep!) to work their... | |
 | Thomas Peyser - 1998 - 212 σελίδες
...property"— the English language— to, among others, "the American Dutchman and Dago"? James goes on: "All the while we sleep the vast contingent of aliens...have just as much property in our speech as we have ... are sitting up (they don't sleep!) to work their will on their new inheritance."12 It would be... | |
 | Aneta Pavlenko, Adrian Blackledge - 2004 - 364 σελίδες
...the civilized tongue from the vast continent of aliens whom we welcome, and whose main contention ... is that, from the moment of their arrival, they have...just as good a right to do what they choose with it. (James, 1905, cited in Brumberg, 1986: 6-7) Not many immigrants, however, interacted with either James... | |
 | Henry James - 2004 - 276 σελίδες
...whom we make welcome, and whose mam conrention, as I say, is that, from the moment of their attival, they have just as much property in our speech as we have, and just as good a tight to do what they choose with it — the grand tight of the Amencan being to do just what he chooses... | |
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