History of the European languages; or, Researches into the affinities of the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic, Sclavonic and Indian nations [ed. by D. Scot].Archibald Constable & Company, 1823 |
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Términos y frases comunes
action adjective agitate Alamannic ancient Anglo-Saxon Arabic alphabet beat belonging bend blow Bruce's bruise Cæsar called Celtic Cimbri common compound consignificative contraction Cymraig dative derivative dialects Dr Baird Dr Leyden Dr Murray drive DWAG Edinburgh English Europe European Eutropius express feminine force French friends Gaul genitive German Goths Grammar Greek guage Hebrew hence Henry Salt honour HWAG joined kind labours language Latin letter lift literary manner masculine means mind Minigaff motion move Murray's names nations nature neuter Note object original Persic person philologist plural possession present preterite participle produced pronounced racter radical roll Sanscrit Saxon seize sense signified sound speech stretch strike substantives Suevi SWAG syllables tense terminations Teutonic Teutonic dialects thing thou THWAG tion tive tribes turn varieties verb Visigothic vowel whence words
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Página 367 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake : I'm wae to think upo...
Página 103 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Página 280 - Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Página 451 - And hotch'd and blew wi' might and main : Till first ae caper, syne anither, Tarn tint his reason a' thegither, And roars out, " Weel done, cutty-sark !" And in an instant all was dark : And scarcely had he Maggie rallied, When out the hellish legion sallied. As bees bizz out wi...
Página xlvi - I made the most of these days : I came about an hour before the school met ; I pored on my arithmetic, in which I am still a proficient ; and I regularly opened and read all the English books, such as the Spectator, World, &c.
Página 392 - Since naething's awa', as we can learn, The kirn's to kirn, and milk to earn, Gae but the house, lass, and waken my bairn, And bid her come quickly ben.
Página l - Gad, Sandy, I shall try thee with Latin ;' and, accordingly, read over to me no less than two of the declensions. It was his custom with me to permit me to get as long lessons as I pleased, and never to fetter me by joining me to a class. There was at that time in the school a class of four boys, advanced as far as the pronouns in Latin grammar. They ridiculed my separated condition. But before the vacation in August I had reached the end of the Rudiments, knew a good deal more than they, by reading...
Página 31 - If the motion was less sudden, but of the same species, WAG. If made with force and a great effort, HWAG. These are varieties of one word, originally used to mark the motion of fire, water, wind, darts. II. To strike with a quick, vigorous, impelling force, BAG or BWAG, of which FAG and PAG are softer varieties.
Página xl - ... snatched from the fire. I soon learned all the alphabet in this form, and became writer as well as reader. I wrought with the board and brand continually. Then the Catechism was presented, and in a month or two I could read the easier parts of. it. I daily amused myself with copying, as above, the printed letters. In May, 1782, he gave me a small Psalm-book, for which I totally abandoned the Catechism, which I did not like, and which I tore into two pieces, and concealed in a hole of a dyke.