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... whole body of words contained in that pas- sage , of course not omitting the smallest , according to their nationalities - writing , it may be , A over every Anglo - Saxon word , L over every Latin , and so on with the others , if any ...
... whole body of words contained in that pas- sage , of course not omitting the smallest , according to their nationalities - writing , it may be , A over every Anglo - Saxon word , L over every Latin , and so on with the others , if any ...
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... whole articulation , its sinews and its ligaments , the great body of articles , pronouns , con- junctions , prepositions , numerals , auxiliary verbs , all smaller words which serve to knit together and bind the larger into sentences ...
... whole articulation , its sinews and its ligaments , the great body of articles , pronouns , con- junctions , prepositions , numerals , auxiliary verbs , all smaller words which serve to knit together and bind the larger into sentences ...
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... whole pages might be writ- ten , I do not say in philosophy or theology or upon any abstruser subject , but on familiar matters of com- * J. Grimm , quoted in the Philological Museum , vol . i . p 667 . 1 mon everyday life , in which ...
... whole pages might be writ- ten , I do not say in philosophy or theology or upon any abstruser subject , but on familiar matters of com- * J. Grimm , quoted in the Philological Museum , vol . i . p 667 . 1 mon everyday life , in which ...
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... whole religious life of our people , if the translation used by them had been composed in such Latin - English as this ? There was indeed something still deeper than love of sound and genuine English at work in our trans- lators ...
... whole religious life of our people , if the translation used by them had been composed in such Latin - English as this ? There was indeed something still deeper than love of sound and genuine English at work in our trans- lators ...
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... whole or in part , have been contented to take a lower place , while , in most instances , a word of the Latin moiety of the language has as- sumed the place which they have vacated . Thus ' tapfer ' is valiant , courageous , but ...
... whole or in part , have been contented to take a lower place , while , in most instances , a word of the Latin moiety of the language has as- sumed the place which they have vacated . Thus ' tapfer ' is valiant , courageous , 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,...