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... doubt there were writers of a former age , Samuel Johnson in the last century , Cudworth and Sir Thomas Browne in the century preceding , who gave undue preponderance to the learned , or Latin , portion in our language ; and very much ...
... doubt there were writers of a former age , Samuel Johnson in the last century , Cudworth and Sir Thomas Browne in the century preceding , who gave undue preponderance to the learned , or Latin , portion in our language ; and very much ...
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... 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 . " * Such are his ...
... 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 . " * Such are his ...
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... doubt they were here in excess . * At the same time this can be regarded as no condem- nation of their attempt ; it was only by actual expe- rience that it could be proved whether the language wanted those words or not , whether it ...
... doubt they were here in excess . * At the same time this can be regarded as no condem- nation of their attempt ; it was only by actual expe- rience that it could be proved whether the language wanted those words or not , whether it ...
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... doubt that in twenty years it will be so pronounced by the great body of well educated Englishmen , and that our present pro- nunciation will pass away in the same manner as ' obleege , ' once universal , has past away , and given place ...
... doubt that in twenty years it will be so pronounced by the great body of well educated Englishmen , and that our present pro- nunciation will pass away in the same manner as ' obleege , ' once universal , has past away , and given place ...
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... doubt that this is the same word ; all the consonants , which are generally the stamina of a word , being the same ; while this early form ' niggot ' makes more plausible their sug- gestion that ' nugget ' is only ' ingot ' disguised ...
... doubt that this is the same word ; all the consonants , which are generally the stamina of a word , being the same ; while this early form ' niggot ' makes more plausible their sug- gestion that ' nugget ' is only ' ingot ' disguised ...
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Page 48 - ... inkhorn terms, smelling too much of the Latin." It is curious to observe the " words of art," as he calls them, which Philemon Holland, a voluminous translator at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century...
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 178 - The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 39 - Shakespeare), may with all right be called a world-language ; and like the English people appears destined hereafter to prevail with a sway more extensive even than its present over all the portions of the globe. For in wealth, good sense, and closeness of structure no other of the languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared with it...
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 33 - And, universally, this may be remarked - that, wherever the passion of a poem is of that sort which uses, presumes, or postulates the ideas, without seeking to extend them, Saxon will be the 'cocoon' (to speak by the language applied to silk-worms) which the poem spins for itself.
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 30 - 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.
Page 38 - Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, have been the result of a surprisingly intimate union of the two noblest languages in modern Europe, the Teutonic and the Komance.