The Origin of the English, Germanic, and Scandinavian Languages and Nations: With a Sketch of Their Early Literature and Short Chronological Specimens of Anglo-Saxon, Friesic, Flemish, Dutch, German from the Mœso-Goths to the Present Time, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish ...Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848 - 208 pagina's |
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Alemannic alphabet ancient Angles Anglo-Saxon Bede Boustrophedon Britain Cædmon called Celtic Celtic Nations Celts century character Charlemagne Chauci Codex coins consonants Dictionary Dutch Dutch language Edda edition ende England Europe Flemish Francic Francs Friesians Friesic Gelderland Germanic languages Glossary Gospels Gothic Goths Greek Hebrew Heliand High-Ger High-German Hist Holland Icel Icelandic inhabitants inscription J. M. Kemble Jutes king land Latin letters LITERAL ENGLISH London Low-German Low-Saxon Maso-Gothic modern Moes Moeso-Gothic nations northern nouns numerals Old Danish Old-Saxon origin Oscan Phoenician poem Pref printed Professor pronunciation provincial dialects published quæ race right to left Roman Sanscrit Saxon Scandinavian signification Skalds song sound specimen spoken Suabian Swed Swedish Teutonic Theotisc thou tongue translation tribes Ulfila Ulphilas Uncials verbs viel Vögel vowels Willems words writing written þæt
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Pagina 6 - confounded their lip, language, or pronunciation, that they could not understand one another's speech.” “Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Pagina 10 - were the isles of the Gentiles (Europe) divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.—These are the sons of Ham, after their families,
Pagina 140 - King Christian stood by the lofty mast In mist and smoke. His sword was hammering so fast, Through Gothic helm and brain it passed. Then sank each hostile hulk and mast In mist and smoke. Fly, shouted they, fly,
Pagina 140 - braves of Denmark's Christian The stroke? Niels Juel gave heed to the tempest's roar; Now is the hour! He hoisted his blood-red flag once more, And smote the foe of the Dane full sore.f And shouted loud through the tempest's roar:
Pagina 18 - The Italian is pleasant, but without sinewes, as a still fleeting water. The French delicate, but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to open her lippes, for fear of marring her countenance. The Spanish majesticall, but fulsome, running too much on the
Pagina 30 - 29. It must be observed, that the monuments of Friesian literature are of a far more recent date than the Anglo-Saxon ; but the development of language does not always depend upon its age. The Friesians, encompassed on the one side by the sea, and on the other by the Saxons, owe it to their
Pagina 41 - Now must we praise the guardian of heaven's kingdom, the creator's might, and his mind's thought, glorious Father of men as of every wonder he, Lord eternal, formed the beginning. He first framed for the children of earth the heavens as a roof; holy Creator! then mid-earth, the guardian of mankind, the eternal Lord, afterwards produced; the earth for men, Lord Almighty!
Pagina 18 - In a play. The Dutch manlike, but withall very harsh, as one ready at every word to pick. a quarrelL Now we, in borrowing from them, give the strength of consonants to the Italian; the full sound of words to the French; the variety of terminations to the Spanish - and the mollifying of more vowels
Pagina 18 - every man that might, soon robbed another. Then his sons and his friends took his body, and brought it to England, and buried it at Reading. A good man he was; and there was great dread of him. No man
Pagina 23 - and termination—almost every word. is attacked by the spasm of the accent and the drawing of consonants to wrong positions; yet the old English principle is not overpowered. Trampled down by the ignoble feet of strangers, its spring still retains force enough to restore itself; it lives and plays through all the veins of the language, it