Researches Into the Origin and Affinity of the Principal Languages of Asia and Europe |
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... etymologists in transposing and inserting letters , in substituting at pleasure any consonant for * Such is the conclusion of Sir W. Jones , as explained in his Ninth Anniversary Discourse . But with respect to the Tartar , M. Klaproth ...
... etymologists in transposing and inserting letters , in substituting at pleasure any consonant for * Such is the conclusion of Sir W. Jones , as explained in his Ninth Anniversary Discourse . But with respect to the Tartar , M. Klaproth ...
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... etymologists attempt to torture the in- tractable words of Hebrew into resemblances with the words of other languages . * Mr. Townsend , for instance , who is the latest writer that • - These remarks of Cour de Gebelin deserve attention ...
... etymologists attempt to torture the in- tractable words of Hebrew into resemblances with the words of other languages . * Mr. Townsend , for instance , who is the latest writer that • - These remarks of Cour de Gebelin deserve attention ...
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... etymologists have not adverted to the remarkable difference which exists between the grammatical structure of Hebrew and that of Sanscrit and Greek . For various causes might occasion the passing of single words from one original ...
... etymologists have not adverted to the remarkable difference which exists between the grammatical structure of Hebrew and that of Sanscrit and Greek . For various causes might occasion the passing of single words from one original ...
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... etymologist pleases , is explained at length by Mr. Townsend , from whose work I extract the following very convenient ... etymologists either make use of them or reject them , just as it suits their convenience . + Character of Moses ...
... etymologist pleases , is explained at length by Mr. Townsend , from whose work I extract the following very convenient ... etymologists either make use of them or reject them , just as it suits their convenience . + Character of Moses ...
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... etymologists are themselves perfectly aware of the impropriety of subjecting the words of the different languages com- pared together to etymological tortures , in order to extort an appear- ance of identity which does not exist ; for ...
... etymologists are themselves perfectly aware of the impropriety of subjecting the words of the different languages com- pared together to etymological tortures , in order to extort an appear- ance of identity which does not exist ; for ...
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Adelung admitted affinity of languages alphabet ancient writers Anglo-Saxon antiquity appears Arabia Asia Minor authority Babylonia Celtic Celts circumstance civilisation cognate colonies common conclusion conjecture conquest consequently considered consonants contained contrary derived Diodorus Siculus dissimilar distinct languages Egypt English etymologists etymology Europe Euxine evident evince exist Firdausi foreign formed German Getæ Gothic Goths grammatical structure Grecian Greece Greek Alphabet Greek and Latin guages Hebrew Herodotus Hindus Homer hypothesis identity impossible India inflections inhabitants language of Asia langue letters lingua manner merely migrated nations necessarily follow nouns observes opinion origin Pahlvi parent tongue Parsi particles Pelasgi Pelasgian Persian Phenician preserved primitive tongue probable pronunciation prove quæ race received religion remarks render respecting Romans Sanscrit words Scythians seems singular slightest sound spoken Strabo sufficient supposed Tartar tenses Teutonic dialects Thrace Thracian language Thracians Thucydides trace Trojan war vowels Zend δε
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Page 15 - And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
Page 15 - And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Page 16 - Zeboim toward the wilderness. (Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Page 193 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 13 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 13 - All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons...
Page 16 - And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of the spoilers that spoiled them...
Page 2 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 2 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 23 - Yet these exceptions are temporary or local; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies; the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia...