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... to this examination . When this is done , you will count up the number of those which each language contributes ; again , you will note the character of the words derived from each quarter . 1 * Yet here , before I pass further , I would.
... to this examination . When this is done , you will count up the number of those which each language contributes ; again , you will note the character of the words derived from each quarter . 1 * Yet here , before I pass further , I would.
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Richard Chenevix Trench. Yet here , before I pass further , I would observe in respect of those which come from the Latin , that it will be desirable further to mark whether they are directly from it , and such might be marked L ' , or ...
Richard Chenevix Trench. Yet here , before I pass further , I would observe in respect of those which come from the Latin , that it will be desirable further to mark whether they are directly from it , and such might be marked L ' , or ...
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... pass- ing of an Anglo - Saxon word in two different forms into English , and continuing in both ; thus , ' desk ' and ' dish , ' both the Anglo - Saxon disc , ' the German ' tisch ; ' ' girdle ' and ' kirtle , ' both of them cor ...
... pass- ing of an Anglo - Saxon word in two different forms into English , and continuing in both ; thus , ' desk ' and ' dish , ' both the Anglo - Saxon disc , ' the German ' tisch ; ' ' girdle ' and ' kirtle , ' both of them cor ...
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... passes into it . The po- tent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses . The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words . It is the representative of his best moments , and all that there has ...
... passes into it . The po- tent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses . The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words . It is the representative of his best moments , and all that there has ...
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... passing into the English language , required a vast addition to its vocabulary , if it were to serve all the needs of those who were willing to employ it now . How much was there of high culture , how many of the arts of life , of * We ...
... passing into the English language , required a vast addition to its vocabulary , if it were to serve all the needs of those who were willing to employ it now . How much was there of high culture , how many of the arts of life , of * We ...
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Page 106 - Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries : for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as speak wrong.
Page 34 - 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 65 - 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 28 - The first and foremost step to all good works is the dread and fear of the Lord of heaven and earth, which through the Holy Ghost enlighteneth the blindness of our sinful hearts to tread the ways of wisdom, and lead our feet into the land of blessing."* This is not stiffer than the ordinary English of his time.
Page 31 - 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,...
Page 94 - In former times, till about the reign of King Henry VIII., they were wont to be formed by adding en; thus, loven, sayen, complainen. But now (whatsoever is the cause) it hath quite grown out of use, and that other so generally prevailed, that I dare not presume to set this afoot again ; albeit (to tell you my opinion) 1 am persuaded that the lack hereof, well considered, will be found a great blemish to our tongue.
Page 122 - 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 176 - 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?