On the English Language: Past and PresentRedfield, 1858 - 238 Seiten |
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... express their relations by sixty and thirty was greatly at fault ; and seventy and twenty , or even eighty and ten , would fall short of adequately representing the real predominance of the Saxon over the Latin element of the language ...
... express their relations by sixty and thirty was greatly at fault ; and seventy and twenty , or even eighty and ten , would fall short of adequately representing the real predominance of the Saxon over the Latin element of the language ...
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... express shades of meaning not expressed by any words of our own . Solidarity , ' a word which we owe to the French communists , and which signifies a fellowship in gain and loss , in honor and dishonor , in victory and defeat - a being ...
... express shades of meaning not expressed by any words of our own . Solidarity , ' a word which we owe to the French communists , and which signifies a fellowship in gain and loss , in honor and dishonor , in victory and defeat - a being ...
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... the Middle Ages some did not account it sufficient to call themselves " fratres minores , minimi , postremi , " but coined ' postre- missimi , ' to express the depth of their " voluntary humility . " ' chause , ' or ' chouse ; ' to.
... the Middle Ages some did not account it sufficient to call themselves " fratres minores , minimi , postremi , " but coined ' postre- missimi , ' to express the depth of their " voluntary humility . " ' chause , ' or ' chouse ; ' to.
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... express myself with this confidence , because the advance of philolo- gical inquiry has rendered it almost a matter of neces- sity that we should possess a word to designate a cer- tain process , and no other word would designate it at ...
... express myself with this confidence , because the advance of philolo- gical inquiry has rendered it almost a matter of neces- sity that we should possess a word to designate a cer- tain process , and no other word would designate it at ...
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... express it , will create , or indeed has created , the word dissimilation , ' which probably will in due time establish itself among us in far wider than its primary use . 6 ' Watershed ' has only recently begun to appear in books of ...
... express it , will create , or indeed has created , the word dissimilation , ' which probably will in due time establish itself among us in far wider than its primary use . 6 ' Watershed ' has only recently begun to appear in books of ...
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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 202 - The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
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 79 - Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakspeare's time that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, some are ungrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure.
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?