 | Layamon - 1847 - 198 pages
...Preface to Wartons Hist.Eiiylish Poetry, p. HO.ed. 1824, who supports his iirgument by the fact, that every branch of the Low German stock, from whence...Anglo-Saxon sprang, displays the same simplification in its grammar. This view of the question is confirmed also by Professor Latham, who adds, that compared... | |
 | Layamon, Frederic Madden - 1847 - 514 pages
...Preface to Wartons Hist. Enylish Poetry, p. 110. ed. 1824, who supports his argument by the fact, that every branch of the Low German stock, from whence...Anglo-Saxon sprang, displays the same simplification in its grammar. This view of the question is confirmed also by Professor Latham, who adds, that compared... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 240 pages
...of one language, but the universal law of all. " In all languages," as has been well said, "there is a constant tendency to relieve themselves of that...every shade of meaning, to lessen the amount of nice distinction, and detect as it were a royal road to the interchange of opinion." For example, a vast... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 pages
...one language, but the universal law of all. " In all languages," as 'has been well said, " there is a constant tendency to relieve themselves of that...every shade of meaning, to lessen the amount of nice distinction, and detect as it were a royal road to the interchange of opinion." For example, a vast... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 240 pages
...of one language, but the universal law of all. " In all languages," as has been well said, "there is a constant tendency to relieve themselves of that...every shade of meaning, to lessen the amount of nice distinction, and detect as it were a royal road to the interchange of opinion." For example, a vast... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 240 pages
...of one language, but the universal law of all. " In all languages," as has been well said, "there is a constant tendency to relieve themselves of that...every shade of meaning, to lessen the amount of nice distinction, and detect as it were a royal road to the interchange of opinion." For example, a vast... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 278 pages
...one language, but the universal law of all. " In all languages," as has been well said, " there is a constant tendency to relieve themselves of that...every shade of meaning, to lessen the amount of nice distinction, and detect as it were a royal road to the interchange of opinion." For example, a vast... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 238 pages
...of one language, but the universal law of all. "In all languages," as has been well said, "there is a constant tendency to relieve themselves of that...every shade of meaning, to lessen the amount of nice distinction, and detect as it were a royal road to the interchange of opinion." For example, a vast... | |
 | Henry Rogers - English essays - 1855 - 428 pages
...even accelerated by that event, is wholly incapable of proof. . . . Every branch of the Low-German stock from whence the Anglo-Saxon sprang, displays the same simplification of its grammar.'* Dr. Latham goes so far as to say, — ' What the present language of England would have been had the... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1858 - 252 pages
...one language, but the universal law of all. " In all languages," as has been well said, " there is a constant tendency to relieve themselves of that...every shade of meaning, to lessen the amount of nice distinction, and detect as it were a royal road to the interchange of opinion." For example, a vast... | |
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In all languages," as has been well said, "there is a constant tendency to relieve themselves of that precision which chooses a fresh symbol for every shade of meaning, to lessen the amount of nice distinction, and detect as it were a royal road to the... 
