Chips from a German Workshop: Essays chiefly on the science of language. With index to vols. III and IVC. Scribner's sons, 1890 |
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admit ancient animals argument Aryan languages believe Beng Bopp Brahmanism Brahmo Brahmoism Buddhist Chinese Christ Christian Colebrooke Colebrooke's Comparative Curtius Darwin dative derived dialects doubt England English express fables fact father feel friends German grammar grammarians Greek Greek and Latin guage Henry Thomas Colebrooke Hind Hindu human India infinitive inflectional Keshub Chunder Sen knowledge Latin laws Lectures ligion literary literature living Lyall Max Müller means ment mind missionary nature never nouns opinion Oriental origin Penj Persian Philology philosophy phonetic Professor Whit Professor Whitney question quoted religion religious Rig-Veda root sacred Sanskrit scholars Science of Language scientific seems sense Sir William Jones skrit speak spirit Steinthal suffix thought tion translation true truth Veda Vedic verb Whitney's words Zend
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Page 287 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Page 238 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 64 - 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. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Page 202 - They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.
Page 239 - WITH one consent let all the earth To GOD their cheerful voices raise; Glad homage pay with awful mirth. And sing before him songs of praise...
Page 169 - Father, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 239 - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story; And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till, o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 189 - Twenty pounds, I am certain, will buy me a cow, Thirty geese, and two turkeys, — eight pigs and a sow; Now if these turn out well, at the end of the year, I shall fill both my pockets with guineas, 'tis clear.
Page 190 - Alnaschar was entirely swallowed up in this chimerical vision, and could not forbear acting with his foot what he had in his thoughts ; so that unluckily striking his basket of brittle ware, which was the foundation of all his grandeur, he kicked his glasses to a great distance from him into the street, and broke them into ten thousand pieces.
Page 476 - Let us consider, first, that although there is a continuous change in language, it is not in the power of man either to produce or to prevent it. We might think as well of changing the laws which control the circulation of our blood, or of adding an inch to our height, as of altering the laws of speech, or inventing new words according to our own pleasure.