On the English Language, Past and PresentRedfield, 1858 - 238 Seiten |
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... least it has been my endeavor , whenever I have found myself at points where the two books come necessarily into contact , that what was treated with any fullness before , should be here touched on more lightly ; and only what there was ...
... least it has been my endeavor , whenever I have found myself at points where the two books come necessarily into contact , that what was treated with any fullness before , should be here touched on more lightly ; and only what there was ...
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... least as numerous ; which indeed is not much to be wondered at , for our points of contact with Spain , friendly and hostile , have been much more real than with Italy . Thus we have from the Spanish'alliga- tor ' ( el lagarto ...
... least as numerous ; which indeed is not much to be wondered at , for our points of contact with Spain , friendly and hostile , have been much more real than with Italy . Thus we have from the Spanish'alliga- tor ' ( el lagarto ...
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... least as regards the forms ; one modified by its passage through some other language ; thus , ' adamant ' and ' diamond ; ' ' monastery ' and ' minster ; ' ' scandal ' and ' slander ; ' ' theriac ' and ' treacle ; ' ' asphodel ' and ...
... least as regards the forms ; one modified by its passage through some other language ; thus , ' adamant ' and ' diamond ; ' ' monastery ' and ' minster ; ' ' scandal ' and ' slander ; ' ' theriac ' and ' treacle ; ' ' asphodel ' and ...
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... least , if I may judge by my own experience , wholly beyond your power . On the other hand , with a little patience and ingenuity you will be able to compose a connected narrative of any length you please into which no word from the ...
... least , if I may judge by my own experience , wholly beyond your power . On the other hand , with a little patience and ingenuity you will be able to compose a connected narrative of any length you please into which no word from the ...
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... least followed hard on , this intel- lectual movement another far deeper , and in England essentially national movement ; one which even in- tellectually stirred the nation to far deeper depths , in that it was also a moral one ; I mean ...
... least followed hard on , this intel- lectual movement another far deeper , and in England essentially national movement ; one which even in- tellectually stirred the nation to far deeper depths , in that it was also a moral one ; I mean ...
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Seite 39 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Seite 167 - That it may please Thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them ; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
Seite 56 - These too have done the same; ' despicable,' ' destruction,' 'homicide,' 'obsequious,' ' ponderous,' ' portentous,' ' prodigious,' all which another writer a little earlier condemns as " inkhorn terms, smelling too much of the Latin." It is curious to observe the " words of art," as he calls them, which Philemon Holland, a voluminous translator at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, counts it needful to explain in a sort of glossary which he appends to his translation...
Seite 55 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.
Seite 52 - If sounding Words are not of our growth and Manufacture, who shall hinder me to Import them from a Foreign Country? I carry not out the Treasure of the Nation, which is never to return: but what I bring from Italy, I spend in England : Here it remains, and here it circulates ; for if the Coyn be good, it will pass from one hand to another. I Trade both with the Living and the Dead, for the enrichment of our Native Language.
Seite 28 - THE LORD is my shepherd ; therefore can I lack nothing. He shall feed me in a green pasture, and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort. He shall convert my soul, and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Seite 206 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Seite 42 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Seite 202 - But errs not Nature from this gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths descend, When earthquakes swallow, or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep? "No," ('tis replied) "the first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws; Th' exceptions few; some change since all began: And what created perfect?
Seite 164 - Sc. 2,) a cowardly braggart of a soldier describes the treatment he experienced, when like Parolles he was at length found out, and stripped of his lion's skin : — " They hung me up by the heels and beat me with hazel sticks, . . . that the whole kingdom took notice of me for a baffled whipped fellow.