Shakespeare), may with all right be called a world-language ; and like the English people appears destined hereafter to prevail with a sway more extensive even than its present over all the portions of the globe. For in wealth, good sense, and closeness... Pennsylvania School Journal - Էջ 1391865Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Alexander Mattock Thompson - 1911 - 306 էջ
...language," wrote Baron Grimm, " may with all right be called a world-language, and, like the English people, appears destined hereafter to prevail with a sway...at this day spoken deserves to be compared with it, not even our German." The battle of the tongues has been as keen, ever since the colonising era began,... | |
| Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 344 էջ
...power of expression, such as, perhaps, never stood at the command of any other language of men. . . . For in wealth, good sense, and closeness of structure,...languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared to it. ... What too must appeal to the most practical of men is the knowledge that the English language... | |
| Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 348 էջ
...power of expression, such as, perhaps, never stood at the command of any other language of men. . . . For in wealth, good sense, and closeness of structure,...languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared to it. ... What too must appeal to the most practical of men is the knowledge that the English language... | |
| Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 346 էջ
...expression, such as, perhaps, never stood at the command of any other language of men. . . . For in 270 wealth, good sense, and closeness of structure, no...languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared to it. ... What too must appeal to the most practical of men is the knowledge that the English language... | |
| Max Eastman - 1916 - 156 էջ
...expression, such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other people." I quote from Jacob Grimm. "In wealth, good sense and closeness of structure,...this day spoken deserves to be compared with it." But if the controlling interest has been aesthetic in the past, it is safe for the hopeful to assert... | |
| 1876 - 806 էջ
...people, appears destined hereafter to prevail, with a sway more extensive than its present, over all portions of the globe. For in wealth, good sense,...closeness of structure, no other of the languages at this d»y spoken, deserves to be compared with it.' English literature is the purest and richest in the... | |
| Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan - 1996 - 340 էջ
...English language . . . may with all right be called a world-language; and, like the English people, appears destined hereafter to prevail with a sway...than its present over all the portions of the globe." According to Read (1849, p. 48, cited in Bailey, 1991:116): Ours is the language of the arts and sciences,... | |
| Kris Rampersad - 2002 - 257 էջ
...modern times may with all right be called a world language, and like the English people, seems destined to prevail with a sway more extensive even than its present over all regions of the globe, for in the wealth of good sense, closeness of structure, no other language now... | |
| J. Rosenhouse, Rotem Kowner - 2008 - 350 էջ
...English 'may Globally Speaking with all right be called a world language; and, like the English people, appears destined hereafter to prevail with a sway...than its present over all the portions of the globe' (quoted in Trench, 1881: 44). Neither Adams nor Grimm lived to see their prophecies come true, but... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1857 - 798 էջ
...only mean Kliakspeare), may with all right be called a world- language, and, like the English people, appears destined hereafter to prevail with a sway,...at this day spoken deserves to be compared with it — not even our German, which is torn even a> we are torn, and must first rid itself of many defects... | |
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