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" English amounts to only 13,330, against 29,354 words which can either mediately or immediately be traced to a Latin source.* On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and treating English as a mixed language, it would have to be classified together... "
Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of ... - Page 74
by Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 416 pages
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The Anthropological Review, Volume 1

1863 - 584 pages
...this subject. Professor Mviller is of opinion that grammar is the criterion of language. He says, " Hervas was told by missionaries that in the middle...the eighteenth century the Araucans used hardly a word which was not Spanish, though they preserved both the grammar and the syntax of their own native...
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The Anthropological Review, Volume 1

1863 - 552 pages
...subject. Professor Miiller is of opinion that grammar is the criterion of language. He says, " Hervaa was told by missionaries that in the middle of the eighteenth century the Araucans used hardly a word which was not Spanish, though they preserved both the grammar and the syntax of their own native...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People ...

1865 - 856 pages
...p'rom^hlsTtraiVV run's ~vest- I mediately or immediately be traced to a Latin - - - . - - i solirce. On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and...French, Italian, and Spanish, as one of the Romance or Уеоbreadth -from Sidmouth to StMalo; and 100 to 110 miles west of the latter line. It occupies 23,900...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 4

1868 - 878 pages
...13,330 against 29,354 words which can either mediately or immediately be traced to a Latin source. On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and...was told by missionaries, that in the middle of the 18th c. the Araucans hardly used a single word which was not Spanish, though they preserved both the...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 4

1868 - 856 pages
...13,330 against 29,354 words which can either mediately or immediately he traced to a Latin source. On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and...was told by missionaries, that in the middle of the 18th c. the Araucans hardly used a single word which was not Spanish, though they preserved both the...
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Rules and Cautions in English Grammar Founded on the Analysis of Sentences

William Rushton - 1869 - 352 pages
...Ocean by the Angles, Saxons, and Juts of the Continent.' Again he says expressly (p. 74), ' Languages, though mixed in their dictionary, can never be mixed in their grammar. For,' he adds, ' we may form whole sentences in English consisting entirely of Latin or Romance words,...
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Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 4

Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 854 pages
...13,330 against 29,354 words which can either mediately or immediately be traced to a Latin source. On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and...together with French, Italian, and Spanish, as one of tho Romance or NeoLatin dialects. Languages, however, though mixed in their dictionary, can never be...
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Chambers's encyclopædia, Volume 4

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 878 pages
...evidence of its ,-, therefore, and treating English as a mixed ft would have to be classified together ih French, Italian, and Spanish as one of the Romance...their dictionary, can never be mixed in their grammar. . . . We may form whole sentences in English consisting entirely of Latin or Romance words ; yet whatever...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...vocables in the course of the nation's progress is undoubted, but, as F. Max-Müller admits, ' languages, s bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against and in a scientific classification the English must be ranked as Saxon. The great bulk of our laws...
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Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880 ..., Volume 5

1880 - 894 pages
...13,230 against 29.853 words which can either mediately or immediately be traced to a Latin source. On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and...however, though mixed in their dictionary, can never Ы1 mixed in their grammar. . . . We may form whole sentences in English consisting entirely of Latin...
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