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... possessing neither that vast compass of knowledge , nor that immense apparatus of books , not being at liberty to dedicate to it that devotion al- most of a life which , followed out to the full , it would require , have yet an ...
... possessing neither that vast compass of knowledge , nor that immense apparatus of books , not being at liberty to dedicate to it that devotion al- most of a life which , followed out to the full , it would require , have yet an ...
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... possess some knowledge of the past , it is impossible that we can ourselves advance a single step in the unfolding of the latent capabilities of the language , without the danger of some barbarous vio- lation of its very primary laws ...
... possess some knowledge of the past , it is impossible that we can ourselves advance a single step in the unfolding of the latent capabilities of the language , without the danger of some barbarous vio- lation of its very primary laws ...
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... possessed by the language ; - changes through the altered meaning of words ; -and lastly , as not unworthy of our attention , but often growing out of very deep roots , changes in the orthog- raphy of words . I shall everywhere presume ...
... possessed by the language ; - changes through the altered meaning of words ; -and lastly , as not unworthy of our attention , but often growing out of very deep roots , changes in the orthog- raphy of words . I shall everywhere presume ...
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... possess- ing the rights of citizenship as fully as the most Saxon word of them all . One part of the language is not to be cultivated at the expense of the other ; the Saxon at the cost of the Latin , as little as the Latin at the cost ...
... possess- ing the rights of citizenship as fully as the most Saxon word of them all . One part of the language is not to be cultivated at the expense of the other ; the Saxon at the cost of the Latin , as little as the Latin at the cost ...
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... possess this power of forming new words by the combination of old in very different degrees , and even the same lan ... possessed at the period of its highest culture with a timidity which caused it voluntarily to abdi- cate many of its ...
... possess this power of forming new words by the combination of old in very different degrees , and even the same lan ... possessed at the period of its highest culture with a timidity which caused it voluntarily to abdi- cate many of its ...
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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.