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... merely repeated myself , nor given to the readers of my former work and now of this any right to complain that I am compelling them to travel a second time by the same paths . At least it has been my endeavour , whenever I have found ...
... merely repeated myself , nor given to the readers of my former work and now of this any right to complain that I am compelling them to travel a second time by the same paths . At least it has been my endeavour , whenever I have found ...
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... merely superficial acquaintance ; to bequeath it to those who come after us not worse than we received it ourselves . " Spartam nactus es ; hanc exorna , " - LANGUAGES REACH FAR BACK . 15 this should be our 14 ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE .
... merely superficial acquaintance ; to bequeath it to those who come after us not worse than we received it ourselves . " Spartam nactus es ; hanc exorna , " - LANGUAGES REACH FAR BACK . 15 this should be our 14 ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE .
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... merely in re- spect of that small group of languages which are im- mediately round it , but in respect of all the tongues and languages of the earth . I can imagine few studies of a more surpassing interest than this . Others , however ...
... merely in re- spect of that small group of languages which are im- mediately round it , but in respect of all the tongues and languages of the earth . I can imagine few studies of a more surpassing interest than this . Others , however ...
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... merely an extension of the termination of the ancient masculine to other classes of nouns . " If any of you should wish to convince yourselves by actual experience , of the fact which I just now as- serted , namely that the radical ...
... merely an extension of the termination of the ancient masculine to other classes of nouns . " If any of you should wish to convince yourselves by actual experience , of the fact which I just now as- serted , namely that the radical ...
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... 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 .
... 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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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.