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... GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LECTURE III.` THE DIMINUTIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LECTURE IV . PAGE 13 40 85 ON CHANGES IN THE MEANING OF ENGLISH WORDS 135 LECTURE V. ON THE CHANGED SPELLING OF ENGLISH WORDS . . 169 PREFACE . A SERIES ...
... GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LECTURE III.` THE DIMINUTIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LECTURE IV . PAGE 13 40 85 ON CHANGES IN THE MEANING OF ENGLISH WORDS 135 LECTURE V. ON THE CHANGED SPELLING OF ENGLISH WORDS . . 169 PREFACE . A SERIES ...
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... gains which it is now making , the perils which have threatened or are threatening it , the losses which it has sustained , the latent capacities which may yet be in it , waiting to be evoked , the points in which it is superior to , in ...
... gains which it is now making , the perils which have threatened or are threatening it , the losses which it has sustained , the latent capacities which may yet be in it , waiting to be evoked , the points in which it is superior to , in ...
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... as we are torn , and must first shake off many defects , before it can enter boldly into competition with the English . * * Ueber den Ursprung der Sprache , Berlin , 1851 , p . 135 . 40 LECTURE II . GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
... as we are torn , and must first shake off many defects , before it can enter boldly into competition with the English . * * Ueber den Ursprung der Sprache , Berlin , 1851 , p . 135 . 40 LECTURE II . GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
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Richard Chenevix Trench. 40 LECTURE II . GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . It is not for nothing that we speak of some lan- guages as living , of others as dead . These epithets are not severally mere synonyms ... GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Richard Chenevix Trench. 40 LECTURE II . GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . It is not for nothing that we speak of some lan- guages as living , of others as dead . These epithets are not severally mere synonyms ... GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
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... gains ; it sometimes rejects words as worth- less , or suffers words to die out , which were most wor- thy to have lived . So far as it does this its life is an unhealthy one ; there are here signs of decay and death beginning ; but ...
... gains ; it sometimes rejects words as worth- less , or suffers words to die out , which were most wor- thy to have lived . So far as it does this its life is an unhealthy one ; there are here signs of decay and death beginning ; but ...
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Page 36 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Page 67 - Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakspeare's time that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, some are ungrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure.
Page 102 - With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour, beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil'd, Gris-amber-steam'd ; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drain'd Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.
Page 124 - I might here observe, that the same single letter on many occasions does the office of a whole word, and represents the his and her of our forefathers.
Page 26 - THE LORD is my shepherd ; therefore can I lack nothing. He shall feed me in a green pasture, and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort. He shall convert my soul, and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Page 178 - But errs not Nature from this gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths descend, When earthquakes swallow, or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep? "No," ('tis replied) "the first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws; Th' exceptions few; some change since all began: And what created perfect?
Page 38 - Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, JACOB GRIUM ON ENGLISH. 39 have been the result of a surprisingly intimate union of the two noblest languages in modern Europe, the Teutonic and the Romance.
Page 33 - cocoon,' (to speak by the language applied to silk-worms,) which the poem spins for itself. But, on the other hand, where the motion of the feeling is by and through the ideas, where, (as in religious or meditative poetry — Young's, for instance, or Cowper's,) the pathos creeps and kindles underneath the very tissues of the thinking, there the Latin will predominate ; and so much so that, whilst the flesh, the blood and the muscle, will be often almost exclusively Latin, the articulations only,...