Modern Philology: Its Discoveries, History and Influence ...A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1859 - 356 Seiten |
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Seite 247 - The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations proved by a Comparison of their Dialects with the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages. Forming a Supplement to Researches into the Physical History of Mankind.
Seite 202 - ... 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...
Seite 303 - Black spirits and white ; red spirits and gray ; Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may. • Titty, tiffin, Keep it stiff in; Firedrake, Puckey, Make it lucky ; Liard, Robin, You must bob in. Round, around, around, about, about ; All ill come running in ; all good keep out ! 1st Witch.
Seite 173 - Semitic dialects we can discover the stamp of one powerful mind, once impressed on the floating materials of human speech, and never to be obliterated again in the course of centuries. Like mighty empires founded by the genius of one man, in which his will is perpetuated as law through generations to come ; the Semitic and Arian languages exhibit in all ages and countries a...
Seite 171 - 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 whatever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Seite 33 - It is well known that the original Veda is believed by the Hindus to have been revealed by Brahma, and to have been preserved by tradition, until it was arranged in its present order by a sage, who thence obtained the surname of Vyasa, or Vedavyasa: that is, compiler of the Vedas...
Seite 292 - Sanskrit or the German, element to have the predominance in his work." In the light of the present hour, how strange even to ridiculousness seems this language. It is by such strong high waymarks standing up in the past, that we can best realize how great progress has been made during the last quarter of a century, as in every thing else so also in the elements and processes of classical study.
Seite 284 - Apples of gold in pictures of silver" were those dear old "words fitly spoken," to their interior sense ; yea, rather, gems which had been dropped from a mother's hand into theirs, and which seemed in their very brightness to reflect forever that mother's smile. And to the student now, who comprehends the power of words, to whom they are transparent, revealing all their inmost essence to his lingering gaze, their lost light returns again, and language is evermore living and lovely. Each lettered...
Seite 131 - ... redress was restricted, and at last entirely abolished by laws. Goths. A powerful German people, who originally dwelt on the Prussian coast of the Baltic, at the mouth of the Vistula, but afterwards migrated south. About the beginning of the Third Century we find them separated into two great divisions, the Ostrogoths or Eastern Goths, and the Visigoths or Western Goths. The former were settled in Moesia and Pannonia, while the latter remained north of the Danube.
Seite 31 - Iran, bounded on the north by the Caspian, on the south by the Indian Ocean, on the east by the Indus, and on the west by the Euphrates.