 It is a signal evidence of the conservative powers of language, that we may oftentimes trace in speech the records of customs and states of society which have now past so entirely away as to survive nowhere else but in these words alone. For example,...  Transactions - Page 23by Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1851 - 172 pages
...orthography ; it was shame/fitness at 1 Tim. ii. 9, in the first edition (1611) of the authorized Version. G It is a signal evidence of the conservative powers...language, that we may oftentimes trace in speech, and in speech only, surviving records of customs and states of society which have now past wholly away,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1853 - 248 pages
...'hurricane' is only a transplanting into our tongue of the Spanish ' hurracau' or the French 'ouragan.'* It is a signal evidence of the conservative powers...records of customs and states of society which have now past so entirely away as to survive nowhere else but in these words alone. For example, a ' stipulation,'... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 pages
...hurricane ' is only a transplanting into our tongue of the Spanish 'hurracan' or the French 'ouragan.' It is a signal evidence of the conservative powers...records of customs and states of society which have now past so entirely away as to survive nowhere else but in these words alone. For example, a ' stipulation,'... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...place where it was levied, " tarifa," or " tariff ; " and in this way we have acquired the word. 8. It is a signal evidence of the conservative powers of language, that we may oftentimes0* trace in speech the rec'ords of customs and states of society which have now passed so... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...place where it was levied, " tarifa," or " tariff ; " and in this way we have acquired the word. 3. It is a signal evidence of the conservative powers of language, that we may oftentimes65 trace in speech the rec'ords of customs and states of society which have now passed so... | |
 | English language - 1859 - 684 pages
...a transplanting into our tongue of the Spanish i 4 hurraean ' ' or the French '•* ouragan." 137. gh community of vitality was destroyed continually trace in speech the record of customs and states of society which have now passed so entirely... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1860 - 264 pages
...hurricane' is only a transplanting into our tongue of the Spanish ' hurracan' or the French ' ouragan.' It is a signal evidence of the conservative powers...records of customs and states of society which have now past so entirely away as to survive nowhere else but in these words alone. For example, a ' stipulation,'... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1861 - 262 pages
...hurricane' is only a transplanting into our tongue of the Spanish ' hurracan' or the French ' ouragau.' It is a signal evidence of the conservative powers...records of customs and states of society which have now past so entirely away as to survive nowhere else but in these words alone. For example, a ' stipulation,'... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1863 - 264 pages
...hurricane' is only a transplanting into our tongue of the Spanish ' hurracan' or the French ' ouragan.' It is a signal evidence of the conservative powers...records of customs and states of society which have now past so entirely away as to survive nowhere else but in these words alone. For example, a ' stipulation,'... | |
 | John Morewood Gresley - 1866 - 674 pages
...mentioned. As a concluding commentary upon these observations, I will read a pnrngraph from the Rev. RC Trench's Lectures " On the Study of Words," p....records of customs and states of society which have now past so entirely away as to survive nowhere else but in these words alone. For example, a 'simulation,'... | |
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