Englische Studien, Volume 12

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O. R. Reisland, 1889 - Comparative linguistics
"Zeitschrift für englische Philologie" (varies slightly).
 

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Page 298 - A New English Dictionary, on Historical Principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by James AH Murray, LL.D., President of the Philological Society ; with the assistance of many Scholars and men of Science.
Page 209 - I never had occasion to spell it more than once or twice in my life, but I spells it with a
Page 72 - Other governments are convulsed by the innovations and reforms of neighboring states ; our constitution, fixed in the affections of the people, from whose choice it has sprung, neutralizes the influence of foreign principles, and fearlessly opens an asylum to the virtuous, the unfortunate, and the oppressed of every nation.
Page 197 - Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown ; Here cousin, On this side my hand, and on that side thine. Now is this golden crown like a deep well That owes two buckets, filling one another, The emptier ever dancing in the air, The other down, unseen and full of water. That bucket down and full of tears am I, Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.
Page 152 - Anfangs wollt ich fast verzagen, Und ich glaubt, ich trüg es nie; Und ich hab es doch getragen Aber fragt mich nur nicht, wie?
Page 309 - V_x learned) was begot and borne, soone after, was by his parents (perhaps because hee was so vnlike his brethren) exposed to the wide world, who for want of iudgement, or not vnderstanding the priuy marke of Ironie about it...
Page 58 - None of us will ever forget that bold glowing style of his, flowing free from his untutored soul, full of metaphors (though he knew not what a metaphor was), with all manner of potent words (which he appropriated and applied with a surprising accuracy...
Page 129 - English: but the learning of Latin being nothing but the learning of words, a very unpleasant business both to young and old, join as much other real knowledge with it as you can, beginning still with that which lies most obvious to the senses; such as is the knowledge of minerals, plants, and animals...
Page 123 - ... they call their worthy art by a new found name, calling themselves chetors, and the dice cheaters, borrowing the term from among our lawyers, with whom all such casuals as fall unto the lord at the holding his leetes, as waifs, strays, and such like, be called chetes, as are accustomably said to be escheted to the lord's use.

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