Outlines of Comparative Philology: With a Sketch of the Languages of Europe, Arranged Upon Philologic Principles, and a Brief History of the Art of Writing |
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accent added already ancient Anglo-Saxon appears Asia authors bear become belong branch called Celtic century CHAPTER character Chinese common Comparative connection considered consist consonants contains course dialects distinct early elements England English especially established Europe evidence existence express fact follow foreign former French frequently German give grammar Greek guage hand idea idioms important inflection influence instance Italy knowledge known language Latin laws learned least less letters literature lost manner mark material means mind mode nature Norman once original period Persian possesses present preserved principle probably produced race relation remained remarkable represented researches resemblance Roman root rules Saxon says shows side signs Slavic so-called sounds speak spoken success thought tion tongue trace various verb vowels whilst whole words writing written
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Page 186 - The unlearned or • foolish fantastical, that smells but of learning (such fellows as have seen learned men in their days), will so Latin their tongues, that the simple cannot but wonder at their talk, and think surely they speak by some revelation. I know them, that think rhetoric to stand wholly upon dark words ; and he that can catch an inkhorn term by the tail, him they count to be a fine Englishman and a good rhetorician.
Page 139 - ... and known, and better understood, in the tongue used in the said realm, and by so much every man of the said realm may the better govern himself without offending of the law, and the better keep, save, and defend his heritage and possessions; and in divers regions and countries, where the king, the nobles, and...
Page 186 - English, that they forget altogether their mother's language. And I dare swear this, if some of their mothers were alive, they were not able to tell what they say : and yet these fine English clerks will say, they speak in their mother tongue, if a man should charge them for counterfeiting the King's English.
Page 422 - Oh that my words were graven with an Iron pen and Lead in the Rock for ever.
Page 178 - Where be my coursers and my horses hye ? Where is my myrth, my solas, and my play ? As vanyte, to nought al is wandred away.
Page 143 - It is still more to the honour of Caxton, that when he was informed of the imperfections of his edition, he very readily undertook a second, ' for to satisfy the author,' (as he says himself,) ' whereas tofore by ignorance he had erred in hurting and diffaming his book.
Page 121 - Thus the two languages, now contending and then mingling with each other, continued for nearly four hundred years side by side in the British kingdom ; the Norman French, an exotic plant, deprived of its native soil and heat, flourishing for a time, but gradually withering and fading away ; the language of the subject, like an indigenous tree, trimmed by the rough storm, grafted in many a branch by an unskilful hand, but still giving shade with its wide-spreading foliage, and bearing flowers and...
Page 164 - The works of authors were, then, read for three days successively before one of the Universities, or other judges appointed...
Page 121 - The Normans had conquered the land and the race, but they struggled in vain against the language that conquered them in its turn, and, by its spirit, converted them into Englishmen. In vain did they haughtily refuse to learn a word of that despised tongue, and asked, in the words of the minister of Henry III., indignantly : " Am I an Englishman, that 1 should know these (Saxon) charters and these laws...
Page 119 - ... to society, polished the manners and excited the admiration of the ancient inhabitants, who, charmed by such elegance, recognized in their conquerors persons of superior intelligence, admired them, and endeavoured to imitate their fashions.