 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 450 pages
...WILLIAMS. ONE of the greatest philologists of modern times* has said of our English tongue that it possesses " a veritable power of expression such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of man." He attributes its " highly spiritual genius" and "wonderfully happy development"... | |
 | William Henry Poole - Anglo-Israelism - 1889 - 704 pages
...to hear quoted, and with which I will bring this lecture to a close. After ascribing to our langnage a veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, never stood at the command of any other language of men, he goes on to say, " its highly spiritual genius and wonderful development and... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Bible - 1890 - 476 pages
...of free middle sounds which cannot be taught, but only learned, is the cause of an essential force of expression such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men. Its entire highly intellectual and wonderfully happy structure and development... | |
 | George Washington Moon - English language - 1892 - 514 pages
...in which shall arise, as in one universal temple, the utterance of the worship of • Grimm says, " The English tongue possesses a veritable "power of...such as, perhaps, never stood at the " command of any other language of man." — ' Ursprwng der ' Sprache, p. 52. all hearts. Broad and deep have the foundations... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - English periodicals - 1892 - 548 pages
...language it will be sufficient to quote the impartial authority of Jacob Grimm, who, after ascribing to it a veritable power of expression such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men, goes on to say : " The English language which by no mere accident has produced... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1893 - 394 pages
...The German philologist, Jacob Grimm, has expressed the following estimate of the language: "English possesses a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men. Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition... | |
 | Montague John Guest - Great Britain - 1894 - 656 pages
...cumbrous forma. A very learned German (Grimm) has said of the English language that "it possesses a power of expression such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men." And he thinks its perfection is the result "of a surprisingly intimate union... | |
 | Austin Phelps, Henry Allyn Frink - English language - 1895 - 350 pages
...he once sent forth this tribute to a language not his own. " The English language," he wrote, "has a veritable power of expression such as, perhaps, never stood at the command of any other language of men. Its spiritual genius, its wonderfully happy development, have been the result... | |
 | Deaf - 1915 - 652 pages
...organism, not make demands which may warp and stunt the growth. "The English tongue possesses a vcri'alilf power of expression such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men." — Grim in. THE VOLT A REVIEW 24 THE VOLT A REVIEW SPEECH IS AS NATURAL TO... | |
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 344 pages
...mastiff." Of the English in comparison with the German language, Jacob Grimm says: The English language has a veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, never stood at the command of any other language of men. . . . For in wealth, good sense, and closeness of structure, no other of the... | |
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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 Romance. 
