 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 σελίδες
...CCOEtries, you may be sure that the inhabitants rf each have been the some people ; that a to a.', if you find the languages a good deal the same: for a word here and there being the same, "fl not do. Thus Butler, in his ' Hudibras,' remembering that penguin, in the Strain cf Magellan, signifies... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Melville Bell - 1876 - 184 σελίδες
...observe that '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.' This last sentence might stand as the motto for many of the philological and historical discoveries... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 σελίδες
...Lowlands, where the patronymic was often dropped, by the names of Crow, Craw, &c.— Walter Scott. am always sorry when any language is lost, because...the same ; for a word here and there being the same, will not do. Thus Butler, in his 'Hudibras,' remembering that penguin, in the Straits of Magellan,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 454 σελίδες
...years ago ? 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 pedigrees of nations. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 σελίδες
...years ago ? 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 2. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 σελίδες
...413. Language : 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. n,. \. 225Last: THERE are few things not purely evil of which we can say without some emotion of uneasiness... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 σελίδες
...years ago ? ' There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because...the same ; for a word here and there being the same, will not do. Thus Butler, in his 'Hudibras,' remembering that penguin, in the Straits of Magellan,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 σελίδες
...years ago ? ' There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because...the same ; for a word here and there being the same, will not do. Thus Butler, in his 'Hudibras,' remembering that penguin, in the Straits of Magellan,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 σελίδες
...nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because Ian guages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the same...the same; for a word here and there being the same will not do. Thus Butler, in his ' Hudibras,' remembering that penguin, in the Straits of Magellan,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 σελίδες
...iii. Ch. 1.) 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. 3021 Johnson: Bosioell's Life of Johnson. V. 225. Xo. 3. (Geortje Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) Languages... | |
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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. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that... 
