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... things which separate and divide him from them . And the love of our own language , what is it in fact , but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction ? If the great acts of that nation 1 LECTURE I THE ...
... things which separate and divide him from them . And the love of our own language , what is it in fact , but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction ? If the great acts of that nation 1 LECTURE I THE ...
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... things being so , if we would understand this language as it now is , we must know something of it as it has been ; we must be able to measure , however roughly , the forces which have been at work upon it , moulding and shaping it into ...
... things being so , if we would understand this language as it now is , we must know something of it as it has been ; we must be able to measure , however roughly , the forces which have been at work upon it , moulding and shaping it into ...
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... things are for the most part designated among us by Celtic words ; such as ' bard , ' ' kilt , ' ' clan , ' ' pibroch , ' ' plaid , ' ' reel . ' Nor only such as these , which are all of them comparatively of modern intro- duction , but ...
... things are for the most part designated among us by Celtic words ; such as ' bard , ' ' kilt , ' ' clan , ' ' pibroch , ' ' plaid , ' ' reel . ' Nor only such as these , which are all of them comparatively of modern intro- duction , but ...
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... can forego . Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words . It is part of the national mind , and the anchor of national serious- DOUAY VERSION OF SCRIPTURE . 35 ness .... The memory 34 ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE .
... can forego . Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words . It is part of the national mind , and the anchor of national serious- DOUAY VERSION OF SCRIPTURE . 35 ness .... The memory 34 ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE .
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... thing , which doubt has never dimmed , and controversy never soiled . In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protest- ant with one spark of religiousness about him , whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible ...
... thing , which doubt has never dimmed , and controversy never soiled . In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protest- ant with one spark of religiousness about him , whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible ...
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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,...