On the Study of WordsRedfield, 1855 - Всего страниц: 236 |
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acquainted adduced affirm altogether Anglo-Saxon applied Arsène Houssaye bear birth bring called Charles Gayarré Christian Christology church Cicero claim classical Latin clinamen cloth CLOVERNOOK curious declare derived distinction divine doubt employed England English etymology evil example existence express fact faith French French language German Greek language guage heart heathen hitherto honor human instance instruction invented Jeremy Taylor knowledge language Latin Latin language lecture less lively Lord manner means properly merely mind moral multitude nation never Norman observe oftentimes once originally ourselves perceive perhaps person plainly possess present Quintilian regard Richard Chenevix Trench Roman roundhead Saxon scripture second edition seek sense shire signify sought speak spelling spirit synonyms things thought and feeling tion tongue trace tribes true truth Tusc usage utterance William Gilmore Simms witness writer
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Стр. 87 - To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.
Стр. 24 - 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. 14 - dilapidated' fortune, what an image must have risen up before his mind's eye of some falling house or palace, stone detaching itself from stone, till all had gradually sunk into desolation and ruin. Or he who to that Greek word which signifies " that which will endure to be held up to and judged by the sunlight...
Стр. 60 - 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. 146 - ... 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. 34 - And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works which may have been composed in it. For that work, great as it may be, is but the embodying of the mind of a single man, this of a nation. The Iliad is great, yet not so great in strength or power or beauty as the Greek language. Paradise Lost is a noble possession for a people to have inherited, but the English tongue is a nobler heritage yet.
Стр. 31 - Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.
Стр. 33 - The mighty moral instincts which have been working in the popular mind have found therein their unconscious voice ; and the single kinglier spirits, that have looked deeper into the heart of things, have oftentimes gathered up all they have seen into some one word, which they have launched upon the world, and with which they have enriched it forever — making, in that new word, a new region of thought, to be henceforward, in some sort, the common heritage of all.
Стр. 214 - men of rank' absolutely, for men who are in the highest ranks of the state." The mental process by which this title, which would apply rightly to the best authors in all languages, came to be...
Стр. 12 - In a language like ours, where so many words are derived from other languages, there are few modes of instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology, or primary meaning of the words they use. There are cases, in ^ j which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the j \history of a word, than by the history of a campaign.