 Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, JACOB GRIUM ON ENGLISH. 39 have been the result of a surprisingly intimate union of the two noblest languages in modern Europe, the Teutonic and the Romance.  English Past and Present - Strana 38autor/autoři: Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 213 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 240 str.
...servitude, even as the Latin habits of thought and feeling which it promoted had been the great helps to the continuance of this servitude, through long...never stood at the command of any other language of men,J' he goes on to say, " Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 240 str.
...to both, which partakes of both ; which is as a middle term between both. It has been often thought that the English Church, being in like manner double'fronted,...genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, JACOB GRIUM ON ENGLISH. 39 have been the result of a surprisingly intimate union of the two noblest... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 str.
...hear quoted, and with which I shall bring this lecture to a close. After ascribing to our language " a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...of men," he goes on to say, " Its highly spiritual genius,and wonderfully happy development and condition, have been the result of a surprisingly intimate... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 str.
...power of expression, such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men. ° ü ° Its highly spiritual genius and wonderfully happy...surprisingly intimate union of the two noblest languages iu modern Europe, the Teutonic and the Uomauic. It is well known in what relation these two stand to... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 str.
...Usdum." GIÎIMM, the distinguished German philologist, says : — " The Euglish language possesses a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...stood at the command of any other language of men. ° c ° Its highly spirit; ual genius and wonderfully happy development and condition have been the... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 str.
...Jacob Grimm, in his work " On the Origin of Language," has the following passage : " English possesses a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...stood at the command of any other language of men. Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, have resulted from a... | |
 | Augustus Henry Keane - 1860 - 134 str.
...foreigner, Jacob Grimm, with which this work may be fittingly concluded. He observes that it possesses " A veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...stood at the command of any other language of men. ... Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, have been the result... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1861 - 642 str.
...ONE of the greatest philologists of modern times* has said of our English tongue that it possesses 'a veritable power of expression such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of man.' He attributes its 'highly spiritual genius ' and ' wonderfully happy development ' to its having... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 str.
...greater height. Written tcrnp. Queen Ллн,. ENGLISH LANGTJAGE-Powereof the. The English language has a veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps,...stood at the command of any other language of men. Its highly spiritual genius and wonderfully happy development and condition, have been the result of... | |
 | 1862 - 378 str.
...cause for discontent. A great German scholar, Jacob Grimm, thus writes : ''The English language has a power of expression" such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other. And our German must shake off many defects before it can fairly enter into competition with English."... | |
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