 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides - 1924 - 562 pages
...accounts they had from the savages themselves. What can the M'Craas tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of...nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of_ nations. If you find the same... | |
 | Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs - Architecture - 1998 - 468 pages
...linguae nobis praestant veterum monumentoruin vicem. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Dc originibus gentium There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the same... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...1766, letter to William Drummond, in lames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Ch. 18 10:14 There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. Samuel Johnson, 18... | |
 | Richard Nash - English literature - 2003 - 238 pages
...which accounts they had from the savages themselves. What can McCraas tell about themselves a thousand years ago? There is no tracing the connection of ancient...nations, but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations" (5:224-25). Over and... | |
 | R. Blench - Foreign Language Study - 2006 - 392 pages
...notion that language history could be made to answer for the history of peoples (Boswell 1984 [1785]). There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the same... | |
 | 124 pages
...do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. - Confucius 58. Language There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. - Samuel Johnson The... | |
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There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. 
