Etymologicon Magnum, Or Universal Etymological Dictionary, on a New Plan: With Illustrations Drawn from Various Languages: English, Gothic, Saxon, German, Danish &c. &c. ... the Dialects of the Sclavonic, and the Eastern Languages, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Sanscrit, Gipsey, Coptic, &c. &cAuthor, 1800 |
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Page xxv
... doubt this fact . The various forms , under which the name for the Earth appears in different languages , are thus represented by our Etymologists , AIRTHA ( Gothic ) -EARD , EORD , EORTH , GEARTH ( Saxon ) -ERD , ERDE ( German ) -JORD ...
... doubt this fact . The various forms , under which the name for the Earth appears in different languages , are thus represented by our Etymologists , AIRTHA ( Gothic ) -EARD , EORD , EORTH , GEARTH ( Saxon ) -ERD , ERDE ( German ) -JORD ...
Page xxxiv
... doubts , till more ample and expanded scenes are presented to his view . I have perhaps some claim on the confidence of the candid , when they consider the body of evidence , which I have adduced to illustrate the force of the Element ...
... doubts , till more ample and expanded scenes are presented to his view . I have perhaps some claim on the confidence of the candid , when they consider the body of evidence , which I have adduced to illustrate the force of the Element ...
Page xxxv
... doubts on the subject at once vanished : I could no longer entertain any suspicions respecting the truth of my hypothesis ; and from that moment to the present , amidst various and im- peding obstacles , I have laboured with unceasing ...
... doubts on the subject at once vanished : I could no longer entertain any suspicions respecting the truth of my hypothesis ; and from that moment to the present , amidst various and im- peding obstacles , I have laboured with unceasing ...
Page xxxvi
... doubts or my ignorance : still however , I trust , it would be acknowledged , that my enquiries were directed by a sound and uniform principle , which failed only from the imperfect knowledge of the artist who adopted it . To this test ...
... doubts or my ignorance : still however , I trust , it would be acknowledged , that my enquiries were directed by a sound and uniform principle , which failed only from the imperfect knowledge of the artist who adopted it . To this test ...
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... doubts of our Etymologists , or to define the pecu- liar idea which is conveyed by this ex- pression ; as we may perceive that under every interpretation the word still re- " Est CAP . ( Eng . ) KAPPE . ( Teut tains 2 ETYMOLOGICON ...
... doubts of our Etymologists , or to define the pecu- liar idea which is conveyed by this ex- pression ; as we may perceive that under every interpretation the word still re- " Est CAP . ( Eng . ) KAPPE . ( Teut tains 2 ETYMOLOGICON ...
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acknowledged Ampelos ancient Anglo Saxon animal annexed appears applied appropriate term Arabic CARPOS Celt Celtic Chaldee coincidence compound conjecture consonant conveyed corresponding deduced denoting derived dialects discover doubt Earth Element CB enclosure enquiry Etymologists Etymology explained express extremely curious familiar term Fist French Galic Germ German Gipsey Goth Greek Greek language GRIPE guage Hand Hebrew Hebrew language hence Hesychius imagine instantly Junius Latin Latin language letter Lhuyd likewise Man-the Manus Martinius means Menage metaphor Mouth nature notion observe Old Eng ordinary origin Parkhurst passage peculiar perceive perpetually Pers Persian Persian language phrase precisely produced quæ quasi quod race of words Radical reader referred relating represented Richardson Robert Ainsworth Saxon says seen sense Shakspeare signifies similar idea Skinner sound species Syriac Teutonic languages train of ideas unfolded various verb Vossius vowel breathing Welsh words belonging δε σε
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Page 343 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on "s are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Page 87 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 317 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 450 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 65 - Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels ; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people ; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Page 390 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part?
Page xi - Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Page 29 - And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Page 418 - There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any; a greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
Page xi - And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay...