 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1868 - 876 pages
...бог» 27 NOT. 1833 ; marritd to the prince of Tcck, 12 June, 1866. ENGLISH LANGUAGE is traced from the Frisian variety of the Teutonic or Germanic branch...such as, perhaps, never stood at the command of any other language of man." tírímm. Cetec preTailed in England ШШ introduced 1-450 8шю prevails (... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1869 - 418 pages
...subject. Jacob Grimm, in his work ' On the Origin of Language,' has the following passage : — '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,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1874 - 348 pages
...nil lines of travel, where they find or leave some who speak the language. The English language has 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 hiippy development and condition,... | |
 | William Forsyth - Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...to appreciate it, one of the greatest philologers of modern times, Jacob Grimm, who ascribes to it ' a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men,' and says — In truth, the English language, which by no mere accident has... | |
 | David Campbell (of Montrose acad.) - English language - 1876 - 80 pages
...of the educated man is the power of wielding that language well." — THRING. "The English language possesses a veritable power of expression such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of man."— GRIMM. "The English language necessarily invites every thinking man to the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...officers make their surest remits from the coal- works and the mines. FELTON. The English language has 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... | |
 | English grammar - 1880 - 168 pages
...recent Queen's S(;luil!ir?.hin Exiiminationa. - 158 HISTOEICAL SKETCH OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. '• The English tongue possesses a veritable power of...such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of mau."— Grimm. The history of the language of a country is intimately associated... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...Excellency of the English Tongue, printed in Camden's Britannia. ENGLISH LANGUAGE. THE English language has 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... | |
 | Henry William J. Senior - Anglo-Israelism - 1885 - 208 pages
...possesses admirable qualifications." . . . Professor Jacob Grimm, the great German philologist, says: — " The English tongue possesses a veritable power of...such as, perhaps, never. stood at the command of any other language of men. In truth, the English language, which by no mere accident has produced and upborne... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 374 pages
...vocabulary, English does not suffer; Jacob Grimm himself, in a well-known passage, ascribing to it " a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men," and saying that even German "must first rid itself of many defects, before... | |
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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. 
