 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1805 - 580 pages
...rational purpofe, might as well have left me with the fame words in the modern Englifh ,chara6ter. H. Certainly. It is a trifling etymology that barely refers us to fome word in another language, either the fame or fimilar: unlefs the meaning of the word and caufe... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1854 - 292 pages
...general reasoning, all politics, law, morality, and divinity are merely metaphysic." It is however " a trifling etymology, that barely refers us to some...word in another language, either the same or similar ; — nor is it sufficient to produce instances of the use of a doubtful word, from which to conjecture... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1854 - 514 pages
...term referred to, be fully and clearly explained. On this subject HORSE TOOKE has truly said — " It is a trifling etymology that barely refers us to some word m another language, either the same or similar, unless the meaning of the word, and cause of its imposition,... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - English language - 1870 - 348 pages
...:'.;;••/ ON A NEW PLAN. .-> \ \-J* 2 .'*'-'-~ -**ROBERT SULLIVAN, LL.D., TOD, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, ETC. "It is a trifling Etymology that barely refers us...word in another language, either the same or similar ; nnless the meaning of the word and oauae of its imposition can he discorered hy such a reference."... | |
 | Élie Halévy - France - 1904 - 534 pages
...58. Ibid., part. II, chap. Iv, sub ftnem (vol. II, p. 395) : It is a trifling etymology that harely refers us to some word in another language either the same or similar... It is a childish curiosity, in which the understanding takes no part, and from which it can derive... | |
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It is a trifling etymology that barely refers us to some word in another language, either the same or similar : unless the meaning of the word and cause of its imposition ca'n be discovered by such reference. 