Significant Etymology: Or, Roots, Stems, and Branches of the English LanguageWilliam Blackwood and sons, 1908 - 479 páginas Significant Etymology : Or, Roots, Stems, And Branches of the English Language by James Mitchell, first published in 1908, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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Términos y frases comunes
afterwards ally amusement ancient animals applied atum Authorised Version avoirdupois bird body called century Christ Church Church of Rome cloth coin colour common corruption Cotgrave denotes derived digitigrade diminutive disease dokeo dress earth employed English word especially etymology expression French frequently German give Goth Greek Greek word hand head hence horse Icel Julius Cæsar kind king L word language Latin word letters Lord means meant originally measure ment merely Middle English mind name given nature noun one's originally meant originally signified person phrase plant play probably properly reference Romans Rome root Saxon Scotch Scotland Scripture seems sense ship signified originally signifies literally skin slang sometimes sound speak speech spelling spelt spondee stars supposed syllable taken term thing tion Troy weight verb vigesimal whence word comes writing
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Página 3 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 68 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 180 - Nay, I can tell you more," said Wamba, in the same tone; there is old Alderman Ox continues to hold his Saxon epithet, while he is under the charge of serfs and bondsmen such as thou, but becomes Beef, a fiery French gallant, when he arrives before the worshipful jaws that are destined to consume him. Mynheer Calf, too, becomes Monsieur de Veau in the like manner; he is Saxon when he requires tendance, and takes a Norman name when he becomes matter of enjoyment.
Página 408 - When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist ; a materialist or an idealist ; a Christian or a freethinker — I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last. The one thing in which most of these good people were agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them. They were quite...
Página 180 - I am very glad every fool knows that too," said Wamba, "and pork, I think, is good NormanFrench; and so when the brute lives, and is in the charge of a Saxon slave, she goes by her Saxon name; but becomes a Norman, and is called pork, when she is carried to the Castle-hall to feast among the nobles; what dost thou think of this, friend Gurth, ha?" "It is but too true doctrine, friend Wamba, however it got into thy fool's pate.
Página 440 - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed : for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Página 378 - ... and you were in rude health. I once was rash enough to try walking round her before breakfast, but only got halfway and gave it up exhausted. Or you might read the Riot Act and disperse her ; in short, you might do anything with her but marry her.
Página 361 - ... at one time, till all the pageants for the day appointed were played: and when one pageant was near ended, word was brought from street to street, that so they might come in place thereof exceeding orderly, and all the streets have their...
Página 153 - Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Página 408 - So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of " agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the " gnostic " of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant...
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An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction Anatoly Liberman Vista previa limitada |