 | Samuel Lysons - Anglo-Saxons - 1865 - 578 pages
...the study of the names of the places which they once inhabited, but which now know them no more; from the names of the hills which they fortified, of the...rivers by which they dwelt, of the distant mountains on which they gazed. As an eloquent writer (Palgrave) has observed, ' mountains and rivers still murmur... | |
 | Education - 1874 - 702 pages
...from nature, or from savage tribes." Indeed, local names are the beaconlights of primeval history. As an eloquent writer has observed, " Mountains and...murmur the voices of nations long denationalized or extirpaus to present the following suggestions as to a method of teaching reading. After the pupils... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1877 - 536 pages
...brass, for Allegheny and Juniata and Christina are not forgotten, but prove what Palgrave says, that " Mountains and rivers still murmur the voices of nations long denationalized or extirpated." Mr. Smith, here resuming his observations, concluded by saying : — And now, Mr. President, and fellow... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1877 - 560 pages
...brass, for Allegheny and Juniata and Christina are not forgotten, but prove what Palgrave says, that " Mountains and rivers still murmur the voices of nations long denationalized or extirpated." Mr. Smith, here resuming his observations, concluded by saying : — And now, Mr. President, and fellow... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1877 - 548 pages
...brass, for Allegheny and Juniata and Christina are not forgotten, but prove what Palgrave says, that " Mountains and rivers still murmur the voices of nations long denationalized or extirpated." Mr. Smith, here resuming his ohservatioiis, concluded by saying:— And now, Mr. President, and fellow... | |
 | George Washington Moon - English language - 1881 - 200 pages
...vast and permanent parts of nature are commonly observed to continue as unchanged as themselves. " Mountains and rivers still murmur the voices " of nations long denationalized or extirpated."* " Ethnology derives the greatest aid from " geographical etymology. The names which * Palgrave, ' Normandy... | |
 | Rasmus Bjørn Anderson - 1883 - 178 pages
...from the study of the names of the places they once inhabited, but which now know them no more, from the names of the hills which they fortified, of the...dwelt, of the distant mountains upon which they gazed." He says, " In the Shetlands, every local name without exception is Norwegian. The names of the farms... | |
 | Jean Roemer - English language - 1888 - 714 pages
...Celtic speech that still live upon the map of England, though they have vanished from the glossary. As an eloquent writer has observed, " Mountains and...voices of nations long denationalized or extirpated." 8 Language adheres to the soil when the race by which it was spoken has been swept from off the earth,... | |
 | Rasmus Björn Anderson - America - 1891 - 178 pages
...from the study of the names of thef places they once inhabited, but which now know them no more, from the names of the hills which they fortified, of the...dwelt, of the distant mountains upon which they gazed." He says, "In the Shetlands, every local name without exception is Norwegian. The names of the farms... | |
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The knowledge of the history and the migrations of such tribes must be recovered from the study of the names of the places which they once inhabited, but which now know them no more—from the names of the hills which they fortified, of the rivers by... 
