 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - Essays - 1914 - 346 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... | |
 | Max Eastman - Free verse - 1916 - 156 pages
...exquisite sensibility of the English folk that has conveyed to us through all these hideous onslaughts "a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other people." I quote from Jacob Grimm. "In wealth, good sense and closeness of structure, no other... | |
 | Deaf - 1915 - 580 pages
...demands which may warp and stunt the growth. * From The Educational Ел-eliaiiye for January, 1915. "The English tongue possesses a veritable power of...such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men." — Grimm. On June 15, 1.215, at Runnymede, that famous meadow between Staines... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1862 - 572 pages
...bad that we should thus undervalue our own speech, of which Grimm had said, " The English language possesses a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of man." The speaker then asked, how was English taught? He quoted Quintilian as to... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1874 - 552 pages
...speakers and writers do not attain a competent knowledge of that tongue which, according to Grimm, " possesses a veritable power of expression such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of man." ART. VIII. — 1. Histoire du Synod* General de VEglise Reformee de France.... | |
 | Vijaya Kumar - 2004 - 208 pages
...Delhi, Lasertypeset by : Shivtan Graphics, Delhi-110051 Printed at: GyanSagar Delhi. PREFACE English possesses a veritable power of expression such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men. It has drawn elements from many sources, hence its copiousness of vocabulary... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1864 - 582 pages
...than whom noue is more competent, and who has no lack of love for his native German, ascribes to it ' 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,... | |
 | Josiah Strong - Christian sociology - 1893 - 426 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 won1 The English Language, p. 53. ' Methodiit... | |
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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. 
