A Manual of Comparative Philology: In which the Affinity of the Indo-European Languages is Illustrated, and Applied to the Primeval History of Europe, Italy, and Rome |
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... possession of an ample specimen of their language , in the version of Ulphilas . By this we learn that they were not Getæ or Thracians , as most of the writers who lived near to the era of the Gothic invasion supposed them to be , and ...
... possession of an ample specimen of their language , in the version of Ulphilas . By this we learn that they were not Getæ or Thracians , as most of the writers who lived near to the era of the Gothic invasion supposed them to be , and ...
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... possessed . The Gothic tongue is the most important among the numerous class of German idioms , and holds the same high place among its kindred dia- lects , as Sanskrit among the Indo - European . The Gothic gospels of Ulphilas have ...
... possessed . The Gothic tongue is the most important among the numerous class of German idioms , and holds the same high place among its kindred dia- lects , as Sanskrit among the Indo - European . The Gothic gospels of Ulphilas have ...
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... possessed no Greek writings of an older date than the Romaic , who could possibly have divined the varied fulness and exquisite structure found in the works of classical authors . The oldest Persian writings reach back no far- ther than ...
... possessed no Greek writings of an older date than the Romaic , who could possibly have divined the varied fulness and exquisite structure found in the works of classical authors . The oldest Persian writings reach back no far- ther than ...
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... possession of Illyria and the neighbouring coun- tries only at the era of the great revolution which induced the fall of the Roman empire , may perhaps rest on a mere strife of words . For , granting that about this period a Sclavonian ...
... possession of Illyria and the neighbouring coun- tries only at the era of the great revolution which induced the fall of the Roman empire , may perhaps rest on a mere strife of words . For , granting that about this period a Sclavonian ...
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... possessed the form of the letter f , it is remarkable that its utterance was very pecu- liar , and bore no resemblance to the soft sound of the Greek , or even to the Æolic digamma . I am not 5 According to Pott ( vol . ii . p . 551 ) ...
... possessed the form of the letter f , it is remarkable that its utterance was very pecu- liar , and bore no resemblance to the soft sound of the Greek , or even to the Æolic digamma . I am not 5 According to Pott ( vol . ii . p . 551 ) ...
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Page 222 - Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Page 20 - 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 146 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 286 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will show thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Page 208 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 242 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Page 233 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Page 233 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 222 - And he shall set up an ensign " for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of " Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah " from the four corners of the earth. The envy also " of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah " shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and
Page 229 - Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts : smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered : and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.