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adduced affirm Anglo-Saxon applied bear Ben Jonson birth BISHOP OF OXFORD bring called certainly Christian CHRISTOLOGY Church Cicero claim classical Latin clinamen common connexion curious declare derived distinction divine doubt employed England English etymology evil example existence express fact faith French French language German Greek Greek language guage hand heart heathen Heptarchy hitherto honour human imagination instance instructive intellectual invented Jeremy Taylor knowledge language Latin Latin language lectures less living Lord Louis the Fourteenth manner means properly merely mind moral nation never Norman observe oftentimes once originally ourselves perceive phonetic spelling Picts plainly possess present Quintilian regard RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Roman Roundhead Saxon Scripture sense signify speak spirit synonyms teaching things thought and feeling tion tongue trace tribes true truth Tusc utterance witness word writer
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Стр. xiii - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Стр. 114 - ... princely affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient...
Стр. 98 - A man coins not a new word without some peril and less fruit; for if it happen to be received, the praise is but moderate; if refused, the scorn is assured.
Стр. 32 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Стр. ix - Roman husbandmen separated the corn from the husks ; and 'tribulatio' in its primary significance was the act of this separation. But some Latin writer of the Christian Church appropriated the word and image for the setting forth of a higher truth; and sorrow, distress, and adversity being the appointed means for the separating in men of whatever in them was light, trivial, and poor from the solid and the true, their chaff from their wheat, therefore he called these sorrows and trials 'tribulations...
Стр. 164 - ... on the contrary, directly bearing upon it, that I can conceive no method of so effectually defacing and barbarizing our English tongue, no scheme that would go so far to empty it, practically at least and for us, of all the hoarded wit, wisdom, imagination, and history which it contains, to cut the vital nerve which connects its present with the past, as the introduction of the scheme of phonetic spelling, which some have lately been zealously advocating among us.
Стр. 47 - ... upon the Norman conquest, by an analysis of our present language, a mustering of its words in groups, and a close observation of the nature and character of those which the two races have severally contributed to it. Thus we should confidently conclude that the Norman was the ruling race, from the noticeable fact that all the words of dignity, state, honor, and preeminence, with one remarkable exception, (to be adduced presently,) descend to us from them —
Стр. 108 - Others of Dutch extraction, as if it were to plume, or pluck the feathers of a bird to the bare skin.* Sure I am we first heard of it in the Swedish wars ; and if the name and thing be sent back from whence it came, few English eyes would weep thereat.
Стр. vi - ... fossil, curious and beautiful shapes of vegetable or animal life, the graceful fern or the finely vertebrated lizard, such as now, it may be, have been extinct for thousands of years, are permanently bound up with the stone, and rescued from that perishing which would...
Стр. 64 - Moors to watch from this point all merchant-ships going into, or coming out of, the Midland sea ; and issuing from this stronghold, to levy duties according to a fixed scale on all merchandise passing in and out of the straits, and this was called from the place where it was levied, " tarifa" or " tariff;" and in this way we have acquired the word.