| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| American Philological Association - 1881 - 366 pages
...evidently derived from the most distant sources as English." Only he adds, still further on (p. 89) : " Languages, however, though mixed in their dictionary, can never be mixed in their grammar." Miiller's view, then, plainly admits of being laid down in this form : I. There is a certain part of... | |
| 1883 - 842 pages
...13,330 against 29,354 words which can e: ther mediately or immediately be traced to a Latin source. On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and...language, it would have to be classified together with Frenih, Italian, and Spanish, as one of the Romance or NeoLatin dialects. Languages, however, though... | |
| George J. Henderson - 1888 - 146 pages
...words, 29,853 come from the classical, 13,230 from Teutonic, and the rest from miscellaneous sources. On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and...together with French, Italian, and Spanish, as one of the Eoruance, or Neo-Latin dialects." — Lectures on " The Science of Language," vol. 1, p. 88. A DISCUSSION... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 636 pages
...Celtic. 768 Semitic. 79,114 Thomai Shaw, in his Outlines of English Literature, p. 44, says, dence of its dictionary, therefore, and treating English...together with French, Italian, and Spanish, as one of the Komanic or Neo-Latin dialects. Languages, however, though mixed in their dictionary, can never be mixed... | |
| 1897 - 920 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...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... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 964 pages
...words which can either mediately or immediately be traced to a Latin source. On the evidence of ita dictionary, therefore, and treating English as a mixed...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... | |
| Frederick William Hugh Migeod - 1911 - 408 pages
...are negroes, becomes at once apparent. Another example is forthcoming from America. It is recorded * that in the middle of the eighteenth century the Araucans used hardly a word that was not Spanish, though they preserved both the grammar and syntax of their own native tongue.... | |
| Mrs. Kate Lee Shaw Nichols - 1913 - 144 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...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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