The English Language: A Brief History of Its Grammatical Changes and Its Vocabulary : with Exercises on Synonyms, Prefixes and Suffixes, Word-analysis and Word Building : a Text-book for High Schools and CollegesMaynard, Merrill, 1893 - 220 sider |
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Side 7
... other river - names are Celtic . Pen or Ben , the usual Celtic name for a mountain , is seen in the name for the range called Pennine , in that of the hills called Pentland The Early Conquests and Languages of Britain . 7.
... other river - names are Celtic . Pen or Ben , the usual Celtic name for a mountain , is seen in the name for the range called Pennine , in that of the hills called Pentland The Early Conquests and Languages of Britain . 7.
Side 9
... seen in Rugby , Grimsby , in one hundred names in Lincolnshire alone , is found also in our word by - law . Thorp , or torp , German dorf , a village , is found in Althorpe and Wilstrop ; thwaite , a clearing , in Finsthwaite and ...
... seen in Rugby , Grimsby , in one hundred names in Lincolnshire alone , is found also in our word by - law . Thorp , or torp , German dorf , a village , is found in Althorpe and Wilstrop ; thwaite , a clearing , in Finsthwaite and ...
Side 15
... with the people . To what extent the barons identified the cause of the commons with their own may be seen from the celebrated provisions of the Great Charter extorted from King The Norman Conquest and the New Tongue . 15.
... with the people . To what extent the barons identified the cause of the commons with their own may be seen from the celebrated provisions of the Great Charter extorted from King The Norman Conquest and the New Tongue . 15.
Side 16
... seen when we say that Layamon's Brut , a poem of thirty - two thousand lines , written in 1205 , does not contain a hundred and fifty French words ; and that in the Ormulum , a poem of twenty thou- sand lines , appearing in the year of ...
... seen when we say that Layamon's Brut , a poem of thirty - two thousand lines , written in 1205 , does not contain a hundred and fifty French words ; and that in the Ormulum , a poem of twenty thou- sand lines , appearing in the year of ...
Side 19
... seen . We spoke in Section VII . of the Celtic and of the Scandi- navian of the First Period , and of the Latin of the First and Second Periods - words from these languages taken up by the Anglo - Saxon and carried on into English ...
... seen . We spoke in Section VII . of the Celtic and of the Scandi- navian of the First Period , and of the Latin of the First and Second Periods - words from these languages taken up by the Anglo - Saxon and carried on into English ...
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abl+y able able+ness adjective al+ist al+ize al+ly or al+ity ance Anglo Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Chronicle cá tus called Celtic Celts circum compound Conquest consonants cyrice dative declension denote derivative dropped ency ending English ent+ly or ence fi+er ficat+ion French frequentative ful+ly genitive give grá grammatical Greek Helps hence i)al+ly i)ous i)ous+ly ibil+ity ibility ible ic+al infinitive inflections ing+ly inter ion+al ion+ary ive or ive+ly ive+ness J. S. Mill language Latin Latin words LESSON ly or ness meaning ment metaphorical metonymy ná tus neuter Norman Norman Conquest noun object one's or+ship ous+ly ous+ness past participle personal pronoun Picts plural prefixes and suffixes preterite Pupil Pupil.-¹ rá tus root root-forms Saxon singular sound speech spoken strong verbs subjunctive suffixes syllable synonyms tense Teutonic things tion tive tongue verb vocabulary vowel
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Side 50 - There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay: Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.
Side 51 - Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Side 41 - Might fire the blood of ordinary men, And turn pre-ordinance and first decree Into the law of children. Be not fond, To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood That will be thawed from the true quality With that which melteth fools, — I mean sweet words.
Side 55 - The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Side 41 - And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Side 208 - ... all is hypothetic; all is suspended in air. The conditions are not fully to be understood until you are acquainted with the dependency; you must give a separate attention to each clause of this complex hypothesis, and yet, having done that by a painful effort, you have done nothing at all; for you must exercise a reacting attention through the corresponding latter section, in order to follow out its relations to all parts of the hypothesis which sustains it.
Side 49 - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.
Side 205 - ... source; that the advocate who would convince the technical judge, or dazzle and confuse the jury, speaks Latin; while he who would touch the better sensibilities of his audience, or rouse the multitude to vigorous action, chooses his words from the native speech of our ancient fatherland...
Side 206 - Quincey's prose is pre-eminently rich and stately. He takes rank with Milton as one of our greatest masters of stately cadence, as well as of sublime composition. If one may trust one's ear for a general impression, Milton's melody is sweeter and more varied; but for magnificent effects, at least in prose, the palm must probably be assigned to De Quincey. In some of De Quincey's grandest passages the language can be compared only to the swell and crash of an orchestra.
Side 56 - But among all its fascinations addressed to the sense, the memory, and the heart, there was none to which I more frequently gave a meditative hour during a year's residence, than to the spot where Galileo Galilei sleeps beneath the marble floor of Santa Croce; no building on which I gazed with greater reverence, than I...