 | James Boswell - 1785 - 548 pagina’s
...from the favages themfelves. What can the M'Craas tell about themfelves a thoufand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always forry when any language is loft, becaufe languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the fame... | |
 | James Boswell - 1785 - 546 pagina’s
...from the favages themfelves. What can the APCraas tell about themfelves a thoufand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always forry when any language is loft, becaufe languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the fame... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pagina’s
...from the savages themselves. What can the M'Craas tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore J am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. If you... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 pagina’s
...pedigree of nations' (Bos., ii. 448), he meant it of their broad and distinctive characteristics : — ' If you find the same language in distant countries,...of each have been the same people ; that is to say, a good deal of it the same ; for a word here and there being the same will not do ;' — and he went... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 412 pagina’s
...from the savages themselves. What can the Macracs tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but...languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the eame language in distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pagina’s
...from the savages themselves. What can the M'Craas tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? 3 There of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man? I am disappointed by th m distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same people ; that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 434 pagina’s
...from the savages themselves. What can the Macraes tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but...sorry when any language is lost, because languages arc the pedigree of nations. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Melville Bell - 1876 - 184 pagina’s
...rational study of language was little understood. Dr. Johnson had had the sagacity to observe that 'there is no tracing the connection of ancient nations but...lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.' This last sentence might stand as the motto for many of the philological and historical discoveries... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 814 pagina’s
...from the savages themselves. What can the M'Craas tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? ' There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I 1 " What can the M'Craas tell of themselves a thousand years ago ? " More than the Doctor would suppose.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 pagina’s
...from the savages themselves. What can the M'Craas tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? ' There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I 1 " What can the M'Craas tell of themselves a thousand years ago ? " More than the Doctor would suppose.... | |
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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. 
