English Past and PresentRedfield, 1855 - 213 páginas |
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... ` THE DIMINUTIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LECTURE IV . PAGE 13 40 85 ON CHANGES IN THE MEANING OF ENGLISH WORDS . . 135 LECTURE V. ON THE CHANGED SPELLING OF ENGLISH WORDS . . 169 PREFACE . A SERIES of four lectures which I delivered.
... ` THE DIMINUTIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LECTURE IV . PAGE 13 40 85 ON CHANGES IN THE MEANING OF ENGLISH WORDS . . 135 LECTURE V. ON THE CHANGED SPELLING OF ENGLISH WORDS . . 169 PREFACE . A SERIES of four lectures which I delivered.
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... changes to which in time past it has been submitted , and through which it has arrived at what it now is ; and these changes I shall contemplate under four aspects , dedicating a lec- ture to each ; -changes which have resulted from the ...
... changes to which in time past it has been submitted , and through which it has arrived at what it now is ; and these changes I shall contemplate under four aspects , dedicating a lec- ture to each ; -changes which have resulted from the ...
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... change which the earlier form of the word has undergone , is not far to seek . Words which have been introduced into a lan- guage at an early period , when as yet writing is rare , and books are few or none , when therefore orthogra ...
... change which the earlier form of the word has undergone , is not far to seek . Words which have been introduced into a lan- guage at an early period , when as yet writing is rare , and books are few or none , when therefore orthogra ...
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... change of ' innocency , ' ' indolency , ' ' temperancy , ' and the large family of words with similar termina- tion , into ' innocence , ' ' indolence , ' ' temperance ' and the like , be regarded otherwise than as part of the same ...
... change of ' innocency , ' ' indolency , ' ' temperancy , ' and the large family of words with similar termina- tion , into ' innocence , ' ' indolence , ' ' temperance ' and the like , be regarded otherwise than as part of the same ...
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... changes , he seems to us to be effecting none at all . • It is indeed well nigh impossible to conceive any- thing more gradual than the steps by which a foreign word is admitted into the full rights of an English one ; and thus the ...
... changes , he seems to us to be effecting none at all . • It is indeed well nigh impossible to conceive any- thing more gradual than the steps by which a foreign word is admitted into the full rights of an English one ; and thus the ...
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Página 108 - Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries : for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as speak wrong.
Página 36 - 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.
Página 34 - Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words, ty is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words.
Página 67 - 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.
Página 121 - Wassal, like a neat sempster and songster; her page bearing a brown bowl, drest with ribbands, and rosemary, before her; Offering, in a short gown, with a porter's staff in his hand; a wyth...
Página 96 - The persons plural keep the termination of the first person singular. In former times, till about the reign of king Henry the eighth, they were wont to be formed by adding en ; thus, loven, sayen, complainen.
Página 30 - The first and foremost step to all good works is the dread and fear of the Lord of heaven and earth, which through the Holy Ghost enlighteneth the blindness of our sinful hearts to tread the ways of wisdom, and lead our feet into the land of blessing.
Página 26 - 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.
Página 35 - The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. ... It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon...