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Show The Languages of Paradise. F!vi !-y lnt;g-i!i.C' has it s ailn: ir rs ; in "!.i:cilij' the author. Owen Me: edit maintained that vh -n he heard F-i-nrh fcpolien a lit approved In "loom! h:ir, silt quietly tailing in love" Kdwiir! Il'ition i .iniKhri instance ol this tin j-.iul ta.-cmalion !n stating his prole: itue in His eiicliaiiiiny "Cities S;i;ini. lie recalls an iniei-esunr i.. . l ii. val l-ciid He says And as I listened to the sp'rmln: sylial ies ol the Cn'stiiian tongue ill r;:ii eloquently through the iwiligl; 1 remembered the. saying of that old Spanish doctor of whom .lames I low eli tells us in his 'Instructions ur Fonaine Tiavell,' to wit, that Spanish Italian anil French, these three ilaugh tiers ol the Latin language" were spoken in Paradise; that Cod Al n.ighiy created the world in Spanish the tempter persuaded ICve in Italian and Adam hej.ed pardon in French Youth's Companion |