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... entirely belonging to religious matters , as ' amen , ' ' cabala , ' ' cherub , ' ' ephod , ' ' hallelujah , ' jubilee , ' ' manna , ' ' Messiah , ' ' sabbath , ' ' seraph . ' The Arabic words in our language are more numer- ous ; we ...
... entirely belonging to religious matters , as ' amen , ' ' cabala , ' ' cherub , ' ' ephod , ' ' hallelujah , ' jubilee , ' ' manna , ' ' Messiah , ' ' sabbath , ' ' seraph . ' The Arabic words in our language are more numer- ous ; we ...
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... entirely assimilated to their lan- guage in form and termination , so as in a little while to be almost or quite undistinguishable from natives . On the other hand a most effectual check to this pro- cess , a process sometimes ...
... entirely assimilated to their lan- guage in form and termination , so as in a little while to be almost or quite undistinguishable from natives . On the other hand a most effectual check to this pro- cess , a process sometimes ...
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... entirely predominates here , and everything has to conform and subordinate itself to the laws of this ruling and ascendant language . The Anglo - Saxon is the ruling language in our pres- ent English ; while that has thought good to ...
... entirely predominates here , and everything has to conform and subordinate itself to the laws of this ruling and ascendant language . The Anglo - Saxon is the ruling language in our pres- ent English ; while that has thought good to ...
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... entirely of comic com- binations thrown off for the occasion . * Of the same character is Butler's ' cynarctomachy , ' or battle of a dog and bear . Nor do I suppose that Fuller , when he used ' to avunculize , ' to imitate or follow in ...
... entirely of comic com- binations thrown off for the occasion . * Of the same character is Butler's ' cynarctomachy , ' or battle of a dog and bear . Nor do I suppose that Fuller , when he used ' to avunculize , ' to imitate or follow in ...
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... entirely different words , each with its own distinct domain of meaning , which as by general agreement is assigned to it . The words at parting divide the inheritance between them , which hitherto they held in common . No one who has ...
... entirely different words , each with its own distinct domain of meaning , which as by general agreement is assigned to it . The words at parting divide the inheritance between them , which hitherto they held in common . No one who has ...
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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.