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Page 43
... and Roumansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , and the Celtic , the
Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , together likewise with the ancient dialects of
India and Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the mother of the
...
... and Roumansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , and the Celtic , the
Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , together likewise with the ancient dialects of
India and Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the mother of the
...
Page 79
Its history begins with the early Britons , who spoke a Celtic dialect ; it carries us
on to the Saxon conquest , to the Danish invasions , to the Norman conquest :
and we see how each of these political events contributed to the formation of the
...
Its history begins with the early Britons , who spoke a Celtic dialect ; it carries us
on to the Saxon conquest , to the Danish invasions , to the Norman conquest :
and we see how each of these political events contributed to the formation of the
...
Page 80
A Celt may become an Englishman , Celtic and English blood may be mixed ;
and who could tell at the present day the exact proportion of Celtic and Saxon
blood in the population of England ? But languages are never mixed . It is
indifferent ...
A Celt may become an Englishman , Celtic and English blood may be mixed ;
and who could tell at the present day the exact proportion of Celtic and Saxon
blood in the population of England ? But languages are never mixed . It is
indifferent ...
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can detect , by his own tests , Celtic , Norman , Greek , and Latin ingredients , but
not a single drop of foreign blood has entered into the organic system of the
English language . The grammar , the blood and soul of the language , is as pure
...
can detect , by his own tests , Celtic , Norman , Greek , and Latin ingredients , but
not a single drop of foreign blood has entered into the organic system of the
English language . The grammar , the blood and soul of the language , is as pure
...
Page 83
... evidently derived from the most distant sources as English . Every country of
the globe seems to have brought some of its verbal manufactures to the
intellectual market of England . Latin , Greek , Hebrew , Celtic , NO MIXED
LANGUAGE .
... evidently derived from the most distant sources as English . Every country of
the globe seems to have brought some of its verbal manufactures to the
intellectual market of England . Latin , Greek , Hebrew , Celtic , NO MIXED
LANGUAGE .
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| Title | Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Volume 1 Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Friedrich Max Müller |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | C. Scribner, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2009 |
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