On the Study of Words: Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training School, WinchesterMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 348 páginas |
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... German tribe , or association of tribes , who gave themselves † this proud name of the ' franks ' or the free ; and who , at the breaking up of the Roman Empire , possessed themselves of Gaul , to which they gave their own name . They ...
... German tribe , or association of tribes , who gave themselves † this proud name of the ' franks ' or the free ; and who , at the breaking up of the Roman Empire , possessed themselves of Gaul , to which they gave their own name . They ...
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... German race , but was an epithet applied to any man possessed of certain high moral qualities ,. which for the most part appertained to , and were found only in , men of that stock ; and thus in men's daily discourse , when they speak ...
... German race , but was an epithet applied to any man possessed of certain high moral qualities ,. which for the most part appertained to , and were found only in , men of that stock ; and thus in men's daily discourse , when they speak ...
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... German . Tott and Teuffel were two officers of high rank in the army which Gustavus Adolphus brought with him into Germany . You may imagine how soon those of the other side declared that he had brought ' death ' and ' hell ' in his ...
... German . Tott and Teuffel were two officers of high rank in the army which Gustavus Adolphus brought with him into Germany . You may imagine how soon those of the other side declared that he had brought ' death ' and ' hell ' in his ...
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... German as ' those who remain ' ; of evλoyía , or ' the blessing , ' as a name given in modern Greek to the smallpox ! We may compare as an ex- ample of this same euphemism the famous ' Vixe- runt ' with which Cicero announced that the ...
... German as ' those who remain ' ; of evλoyía , or ' the blessing , ' as a name given in modern Greek to the smallpox ! We may compare as an ex- ample of this same euphemism the famous ' Vixe- runt ' with which Cicero announced that the ...
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... German writer has said . My present lecture shall contain a few examples and illustrations , by which I would make the truth of this appear . ' Iliads without a Homer , ' some one has called , with a little exaggeration , the beautiful ...
... German writer has said . My present lecture shall contain a few examples and illustrations , by which I would make the truth of this appear . ' Iliads without a Homer , ' some one has called , with a little exaggeration , the beautiful ...
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Æschylus affirm altogether Antistrophic Aristotle bear beautiful better birth called century Christian Church Cicero claim common connexion curious derivation Dictionary distinction divine Edition embody employed England English etymology evil example existence explanation express fact faith Fcap feeling Fiji French French language German Greece Greek Greek language guage heathen honour human imagination instructive invented Isaac Taylor Italian Jeremy Taylor knowledge Labarum labour language langue Latin learned lecture legend less Lord manner matter Max Müller meaning merely metic Middle Ages mind modern moral Morea nation nature never Norman oftentimes once originally ourselves passion person poetry possess present Quintilian region Roman Saxon scholar Scripture sense signify sometimes speak spelling spirit Sprache synonyms Tertullian things thought tion tongue trace tribes trivium true truth Tusc utterance verb words writer
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Página 108 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Página 107 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized ; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls ; and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Página 20 - 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 whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Página 40 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium?
Página 44 - Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn; For a good poet's made, as well as born. And such wert thou! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well turned, and true filed lines; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.
Página 126 - Quem enim nos ineptum vocamus, is mihi videtur ab hoc nomen habere ductum, quod non sit aptus, idque in sermonis nostri consuetudine perlate patet. Nam qui aut tempus quid postulet non videt, aut plura loquitur, aut se ostentat, aut eorum, quibuscum est, yel dignitatis vel commodi rationem non habet, aut denique in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est, is ineptus esse dicitur.
Página 63 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Página 57 - For till the bruising flails of God's corrections Have- thrashed out of us our vain affections; Till those corruptions which do misbecome us Are by thy sacred Spirit winnowed from us : Until from us the straw of worldly treasures, Till all the dusty chaff of empty pleasures, Yea, till His flail upon us He doth lay, To...