i THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH, GERMANIC AND SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES, AND NATIONS; WITH A SKETCH OF THEIR EARLY LITERATURE AND SHORT CHRONOLOGICAL SPECIMENS OF ANGLO-SAXON, FRIESIC, FLEMISH, DUTCH, GERMAN FROM TRACING THE PROGRESS OF THESE LANGUAGES, AND THEIR CONNEXION WITH TOGETHER WITH REMARKS ON THE ORIENTAL ORIGIN OF ALPHABETIC WRITING, AND ITS EXTENSION TO THE WEST. A MAP OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES IS PREFIXED, WITH NOTES, ON THE PROGRESSIVE POPULATION OF EUROPE FROM THE EAST, BY |