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 BY THE REV. JOSEPH BOSWORTH, D.D. F.R.S. F.S.A. DR. PHIL. OF LEYDEN, ETC. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONG MANS. MDCCCXLVIII. |