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... year 1862 , by CHARLES SCRIBNER , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York . ADVERTISEMENT . THE lectures which compose the present volume were THE NEW YORK LECTURE.
... year 1862 , by CHARLES SCRIBNER , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York . ADVERTISEMENT . THE lectures which compose the present volume were THE NEW YORK LECTURE.
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George Perkins Marsh. ADVERTISEMENT . THE lectures which compose the present volume were delivered at the Lowell Institute , in Boston , Massachusetts , in the autumn and winter of 1860 -1861 , and they are now published , for the ...
George Perkins Marsh. ADVERTISEMENT . THE lectures which compose the present volume were delivered at the Lowell Institute , in Boston , Massachusetts , in the autumn and winter of 1860 -1861 , and they are now published , for the ...
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... present course ; and if I shall succeed in conveying a general notion of the gradual living processes by which the English tongue and its literature grew up , from the impotent utterance and feeble conceptions of the thirteenth century ...
... present course ; and if I shall succeed in conveying a general notion of the gradual living processes by which the English tongue and its literature grew up , from the impotent utterance and feeble conceptions of the thirteenth century ...
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... present day , would have been an advantage to modern genius , is quite another question . I have heard one of the most accomplished of American scholars , the most eloquent of American forensic orators , say - though , indeed , in that ...
... present day , would have been an advantage to modern genius , is quite another question . I have heard one of the most accomplished of American scholars , the most eloquent of American forensic orators , say - though , indeed , in that ...
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... present the means of using but a part of the material which is absolutely indispensable to the esta- blishment of general conclusions . Manuscripts are accessible to comparatively few , and accurately printed editions of old authors are ...
... present the means of using but a part of the material which is absolutely indispensable to the esta- blishment of general conclusions . Manuscripts are accessible to comparatively few , and accurately printed editions of old authors are ...
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Page 557 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name; yet our soundest knowledge is to know that, we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him: and our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence, when we confess without confession that his glory is inexplicable, his greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we upon earth; therefore it behoveth our words to be wary...
Page 557 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a Law.
Page 69 - Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo, et in...
Page 488 - ... al noble lordes and ladyes wyth al other estates, of what estate or degree they been of, that shal see and rede in this sayd book and werke, that they take the good and honest actes in their remembraunce, and to folowe the same; wherin they shalle fynde many joyous and playsaunt hystoryes and noble and renomed actes of humanyte, gentylnesse, and chyvalryes.
Page xv - Origin and History of the English Language, and of the early literature it embodies. By the Hon. George P. Marsh. US Minister at Turin, Author of " Lectures on the English Language.
Page 488 - I haue after the symple connynge that god hath sente to me / vnder the fauour and correctyon of al noble lordes and gentylmen enprysed to enprynte a book of the noble hystoryes of the sayd kynge Arthur / and of certeyn of his knyghtes after a copye vnto me delyuerd / whyche copye Syr Thomas Malorye dyd take oute of certeyn bookes of frensshe and reduced it in to Englysshe...
Page 486 - For it is notoyrly knowen thorugh the unyversal world that there been nine worthy and the best that ever were, that is to wete, thre Paynyms, thre Jewes, and thre Crysten men. As for the Paynyms, they were tofore the Incarnacyon of Cryst, whiche were named, the fyrst Hector of Troye, of...
Page 166 - And I will fare to Avalun, to the fairest of all maidens, to Argante the queen, an elf most fair, and she shall make my wounds all sound; make me all whole with healing draughts.
Page 560 - ... unchangeable; the counsel of God, and that law of God whereof now we speak, being one. Nor is the freedom of the will of God any whit abated, let, or hindered, by means of this; because the imposition of this law upon himself is his own free and voluntary act. This law therefore we may name eternal, being that order which God before all ages hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
Page v - ANECDOTA LITERARIA; a Collection of Short Poems in English, Latin, and French, illustrative of the Literature and History of England in the Xlllth Century ,- and more especially of the Condition and Manners of the different Classes of Society.