 Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, have been the result of a surprisingly intimate union of the two noblest languages in modern Europe, the Teutonic and the Komance.  English Past and Present - Էջ 38Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 213 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 240 էջ
...which neither will feel that it is receiving the adjudication of a stranger, of one who must be an alien from its deeper thoughts and habits, because...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 (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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."... | |
 | Edward Newenham Hoare - 1863 - 272 էջ
...lover of his native German, gives the palm over all to our English. After ascribing to this language " a veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps,...surprisingly intimate union of the two noblest languages of modern Europe, the Teutonic and the Romance. It is well known in what relation these two stand to... | |
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