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Abenaki adjectives affinities Algonkin American appears Arrapaho Athabaskan Atna AUFRECHT belong Bethuck Caddo cæsura Chaucer Chocta Cochimi comp Compare connexion consonant corresponding Cree Cumanch Dakota declension Delaware denote derived dialects digamma diminutival suffix diminutives English Eskimo Esthon evidence expression Finn forms of speech French Germ German Greek Greenland guttural Hence HENSLEIGH WEDGWOOD Homer Icel idioms Indians initial consonant insertion instances Jecorilla Jemez Kalapuya Kulanapo languages Lapp Latin Latin language letters Lith Lutuami meaning Menom Mithridates mouth mute nasal liquid nouns numerous Ojibbeway origin Otomi Palaik passages perhaps philological phrase preposition probably pronounced River root Ruslen Sahaptin Samoyed Sanskr Sanskrit Scotch seems sense Shasti Shoshoni Shyenne signifying sound substantives suffix syllable Tahkali Tesuque THEODORE AUFRECHT tongue tribes verb vocabulary vowel Welsh whence words writer δὲ ἤπια ἤπιος καὶ τε
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Page 171 - That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up...
Page 165 - The reule of seint Maure or of seint Beneit, By-cause that it was old and som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been nat holy men...
Page 151 - This is worthy of ranking as a maxim, (regula maxima,') of criticism. Whatever is translatable in other and simpler words of the same language, without loss of sense or dignity, is bad.
Page 36 - who know very little of arts or sciences, or the powers of nature, will laugh at us Cardiganshire miners, who maintain the existence of knockers, in mines ; a kind of good-natured impalpable people, not to be seen but heard, and who seem to us to work in the mines ; that is to say, they are the types, or forerunners, of working in mines, as dreams are of some accidents which happen to us.
Page 164 - ... way of Jerusalem celestial ; and this wey is cleped penitence. Of which men schulden gladly herken and enquere with al here herte, to wyte what is penitence, and whens it is cleped penitence, and in what maner, and in how many maneres been the acciones or workynges of penance, and how many spieces ben of penitences, and whiche thinges apperteynen and byhoven to penitence, and whiche thinges destourben penitence.
Page 170 - Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures...
Page 157 - I schrew us bothe tuo. And first I schrew myself, bothe blood and boones, If thou bigile me any ofter than oones. Thou schalt no more thurgh thy flaterye Do me to synge and wynke with myn ye. For he that wynkith, whan he scholde see, Al wilfully, God let him never the." " Nay," quod the fox, " but God give him meschaunce, That is so undiscret of governaunce, 16920 That jangleth, whan he scholde holde his pees.
Page 164 - O paleys desolat, O hous, of houses whylom best y-hight, O paleys empty and disconsolat, O thou lanterne, of which queynt is the light, O paleys...
Page 220 - THERE is a new word coined, within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Some (most forcedly) will have it Hebrew, derived from the word to see or face one...
Page 81 - Races, in, 567, 1882 (includes Napa, Myacoma, Calayomane, Caymus, Uluca, Suscol). This name was proposed by Latham with evident hesitation. He says of it: " How far this will eventually turn out to be a convenient name for the group (or how far the group itself will be real), is uncertain." Under it he places two vocabularies, one from the Upper Sacramento and the other from Mag Redings in Shasta County. The head of Putos Creek is given as headquarters for the language. Recent investigations have...