Transactions of the American Philological Association, Volumes 1-15Ginn & Company, 1870 |
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Page 37 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Page 17 - There is a great popular demand for a modifr cation of the college course. If the course of college study could include an additional preparatory year, and also be extended another year in the higher studies, many modifications for the better might be made. Our democratic, institutions require especially a high standard of national education, or we shall degenerate as a people ; and the colleges must continue in the future, as they have done in the past, to furnish the leaders in society and in the...
Page 5 - OF MANS First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe...
Page 9 - ... 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 with French, Italian, and Spanish, as one of the Romance or Neo-Latin dialects. Languages, however, though mixed in their dictionary, can never be mixed in their grammar.
Page 6 - Philology deals with words; but words are things, and light, airy, and impalpable as they seem, yet on them rests the solid structure of a nation's civilization. The laws which determine the affinities of letters and words involve laws which determine the affinities of nations, and disclose some of the most vital facts of human history. And as philological science is important, so it yields to none in the rigor of its laws, the severity of its methods, and the exactness of its conclusions. Light...
Page 33 - ... report was accepted, and the persons therein named were declared elected to the offices to which they were respectively nominated. The Committee to select the place and the time of the next meeting recommended that the meeting be held at Newport, RI, on the 13th day of July, 1875, at 3 o'clock p.
Page 22 - Charles J. Buckingham, Esq., Poughkeepsie, NY For additional members of the Executive Committee — Professor Basil L. Gildersleeve, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Professor Francis A.