English, Past and Present: Eight LecturesC. Scribner & Company, 1868 - 325 Seiten |
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... merely superficial acquaintance ; to bequeath it to those who come after us not worse than we received it ourselves . ' Spartam nactus es ; hanc exorna , ' - this should be our motto in respect at once of our country , and of our ...
... merely superficial acquaintance ; to bequeath it to those who come after us not worse than we received it ourselves . ' Spartam nactus es ; hanc exorna , ' - this should be our motto in respect at once of our country , and of our ...
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... merely in that smaller group of languages which are immediately round it , but in respect of all the tongues and languages of the earth . I can imagine few studies of a more sur- passing interest than this . Others , however , must be ...
... merely in that smaller group of languages which are immediately round it , but in respect of all the tongues and languages of the earth . I can imagine few studies of a more sur- passing interest than this . Others , however , must be ...
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... merely to the changes which have been in time past effected , but to those also which at nécessaire , lequel venant à faire défaut , la connaissance du lan- gage moderne est sans profondeur , et le bon usage sans racines . I ...
... merely to the changes which have been in time past effected , but to those also which at nécessaire , lequel venant à faire défaut , la connaissance du lan- gage moderne est sans profondeur , et le bon usage sans racines . I ...
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... merely an extension of the termination of the ancient masculine to other classes of nouns . * If you wish to have actual proof of the fact just now asserted , namely , that the radical con- stitution of the language is Saxon , try to ...
... merely an extension of the termination of the ancient masculine to other classes of nouns . * If you wish to have actual proof of the fact just now asserted , namely , that the radical con- stitution of the language is Saxon , try to ...
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... mere words . It is part of the national mind , and the anchor of national seriousness . The me- mory of the dead passes into it . The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses . The power of all the griefs and trials ...
... mere words . It is part of the national mind , and the anchor of national seriousness . The me- mory of the dead passes into it . The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses . The power of all the griefs and trials ...
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Seite 160 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool : his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Seite 36 - It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness The memory of the dead passes into it.
Seite 26 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil ; for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
Seite 98 - 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...
Seite 285 - 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 96 - 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 158 - Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish: then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile: then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced : and lastly, his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
Seite 38 - 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 94 - Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin; and is to consider, in the next place, whether it will agree with the English idiom. After this he ought to take the opinion of judicious friends, such as are learned in both languages; and lastly, since no man is infallible, let him use this licence very sparingly; for if too many foreign words are poured in upon us, it looks as if they were designed not to assist the natives, but to conquer...
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?