On the Study of WordsMacmillan, 1900 - 365 páginas |
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... tracing the derivation and usage of words , had been to him no drudgery , but a delight and labour of love . * And if this may be true in regard of a foreign tongue , how much truer ought it to be in regard of our own , of our ' mother ...
... tracing the derivation and usage of words , had been to him no drudgery , but a delight and labour of love . * And if this may be true in regard of a foreign tongue , how much truer ought it to be in regard of our own , of our ' mother ...
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... trace whatever ; while yet of these one has lately written : - ' Sie haben religiöse Gebräuche und Uebungen , welche , mit einigen anderen Erscheinungen in ihrem Leben , mit ihrem jetzigen Culturzustande ganz unvereinbar erscheinen ...
... trace whatever ; while yet of these one has lately written : - ' Sie haben religiöse Gebräuche und Uebungen , welche , mit einigen anderen Erscheinungen in ihrem Leben , mit ihrem jetzigen Culturzustande ganz unvereinbar erscheinen ...
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... tracing of the succession of changes in meaning which certain words have undergone . Thus ' elend ' in German , a beautiful word , now signifies wretchedness , but at first it signified exile or banishment . * The sense of this ...
... tracing of the succession of changes in meaning which certain words have undergone . Thus ' elend ' in German , a beautiful word , now signifies wretchedness , but at first it signified exile or banishment . * The sense of this ...
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... trace those threads of darkness which run through the tissue of his language ! What facts of wickedness and woe must have existed in the one , ere such words could exist to designate these as are found in the other ! There have never ...
... trace those threads of darkness which run through the tissue of his language ! What facts of wickedness and woe must have existed in the one , ere such words could exist to designate these as are found in the other ! There have never ...
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... consciences did bear witness against it , was attested by their uniform desire to conceal , if possible , all traces of the practice from European eyes . But worst , perhaps , of all are names which III . Fair Words for Ugly Things . 103.
... consciences did bear witness against it , was attested by their uniform desire to conceal , if possible , all traces of the practice from European eyes . But worst , perhaps , of all are names which III . Fair Words for Ugly Things . 103.
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