Word: foreignization
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Passing by the cages of foreign birds, French, Italian, German, and Chinese, - for the most part mocking-birds, - we next see the procession of mediaeval knights, mounted on hobby-horses. Each rider recited his particular speech over and over again, and paid no attention to what any one else said. An aged knight, tastefully dressed in the garb of a scholastic philosopher, led the van. By a happy arrangement of the managers, a corps of Freshmen on ponies appropriately followed at a short interval...
...writer evidently hoped they would never see any other light than that of the library of the friend to whom they were addressed. Still I hope that their value will not be lessened from this fact. They present things familiar to us from the point of view of a foreign but impartial observer. However, I will let the letters speak for themselves...
...laughed or wept, in many a foreign tongue...
...Collection for foreign missions; theatre...
...hope that the additional expense which would be necessary is not at the bottom of the difficulty; but even this ought to be incurred, if it can accomplish an equivalent amount of good. And this has been proved to be the case, not only in public libraries, but in foreign universities, where much use of them is made by students at night...