Origin, Progress and Destiny of the English Language and LiteratureJ. W. Bouton, 1878 - 701 páginas |
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... readers as it did to the author , who , at the age of thirty , knew not a word of English , his labor of thirty years will be amply rewarded . He offers it to the English - speaking populations as a linguistic monument to supply an ...
... readers as it did to the author , who , at the age of thirty , knew not a word of English , his labor of thirty years will be amply rewarded . He offers it to the English - speaking populations as a linguistic monument to supply an ...
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... reader to learn , that the English of to - day is a compound of twenty - three idioms , ancient and modern , dead and living . No wonder Wilberforce says : " English is a composite language . " To realize that the English dialect has ...
... reader to learn , that the English of to - day is a compound of twenty - three idioms , ancient and modern , dead and living . No wonder Wilberforce says : " English is a composite language . " To realize that the English dialect has ...
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... four oldest Gotho - Germanic dia- lects : Gothic A.D. 376 ; -Anglo - Saxon A.D. 700 ; -Low Ger- man A.D. 700 ; High German A.D. 720. In the vocabulary , grammar and construction of this prayer , readers may trace Sixth Century . 35.
... four oldest Gotho - Germanic dia- lects : Gothic A.D. 376 ; -Anglo - Saxon A.D. 700 ; -Low Ger- man A.D. 700 ; High German A.D. 720. In the vocabulary , grammar and construction of this prayer , readers may trace Sixth Century . 35.
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John Adam Weisse. grammar and construction of this prayer , readers may trace the immediate origin of Anglo - Saxon from Gothic and German . Gothic Lord's Prayer from Ulfilas ' * version of the Bible about A.D. 376 : " Atta unsar thu ïn ...
John Adam Weisse. grammar and construction of this prayer , readers may trace the immediate origin of Anglo - Saxon from Gothic and German . Gothic Lord's Prayer from Ulfilas ' * version of the Bible about A.D. 376 : " Atta unsar thu ïn ...
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... readers might pass lightly over such linguistic indications ; but , when history tells us , that the Goths and Germans amalgamated at an early date in Central Europe ; that their ancestors , who were Herodotus Σκύθαι ( Scythians ) ...
... readers might pass lightly over such linguistic indications ; but , when history tells us , that the Goths and Germans amalgamated at an early date in Central Europe ; that their ancestors , who were Herodotus Σκύθαι ( Scythians ) ...
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100 different words 1st person 66 Alfred Alfred's ancient Anglo Anglo-Saxon words Aphra Behn ARIO-JAPHETIC TYPE ARIO-SEMI authors averages Bible Bishop Britain Celtic Celtic words cent century Chaucer Christian common words Danish Ecgbryht England English language English Period Ethelbert Europe Extracts and Tables France Franco-English French furnish 100 different German GOMERO-CELTIC FAMILY Gothic Gotho-Germanic or Anglo-Saxon Gotho-Germanic words GRECO-LATIN FAMILY Greco-Latin words Greek Hebrew Hence History Icelandic ideas idiom inherent meaning Irish Jutes King Latin letters linguistic literature Lord Medieval nations nouns occurs Origin of 100 particles poem Pope preceding Extract printed progress Pron Queen repetitions Roman Rome SARMATO-SCLA Saxon Chronicle says Scotch SCYTHO-GOTHO-GERMANIC FAMILY SEMITIC FAMILY Sharon Turner shows style requires thaet thou thought THRACO-PELASGIC OR GRECO-LATIN TIC TYPE tongue translated TYPE OF LANGUAGES Ulfilas verbs vocabulary vols VONIC FAMILY Welsh words of inherent words to furnish writing wrote
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Página 626 - To him, who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language : for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Página 358 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Página 454 - Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
Página 436 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Página 470 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 358 - WILT thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony ? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live ? The man shall answer, I Will.
Página 153 - Karlo, et in adjudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dist, in o quid il mi altresi fazet ; et ab Ludher nul plaid nunquam prindrai , qui, meon vol, cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.
Página 426 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Página 490 - ... to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made.