 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 238 pages
...grudge to hear quoted, and with which I shall bring this lecture to a close. After ascribing to it " a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...stood at the command of any other language of men," he goes on to say, ".Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 232 pages
...grudge to hear quoted, and with which I shall bring this lecture to a close. After ascribing to it " a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...stood at the command of any other language of men," he goes on to say, "Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, have... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 278 pages
...grudge to hear quoted, and with which I shall bring this lecture to a close. After ascribing to it " a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...stood at the command of any other language of men," he goes on to say, " Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition,... | |
 | 1855 - 606 pages
...grudge to hear quoted, and with which I shall bring this lecture to a close. After ascribing to it 'a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps...stood at the command of any other language of men/ he goes on to say, ' Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 240 pages
...grudge to hear quoted, and with which I shall bring this lecture to a close. After ascribing to it " a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...stood at the command of any other language of men," he goes on to say, " Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...Usdum." GIÎIMM, the distinguished German philologist, says : — " The Euglish language possesses a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...stood at the command of any other language of men. ° c ° Its highly spirit; ual genius and wonderfully happy development and condition have been the... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 pages
...hear quoted, and with which I shall bring this lecture to a close. After ascribing to our language " a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...stood at the command of any other language of men," he goes on to say, " Its highly spiritual genius,and wonderfully happy development and condition, have... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 240 pages
...grudge to hear quoted, and with which I shall bring this lecture to a close. After ascribing to it " a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men,J' he goes on to say, " Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pages
...Jacob Grimm, in his work " On the Origin of Language," has the following passage : " English possesses a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never...stood at the command of any other language of men. Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, have resulted from a... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1858 - 252 pages
...hear quoted, and with which I shall bring this lecture to a close. After ascribing to our language " a veritable power of expression," such as perhaps...stood at the command of any other language of men," he goes on to say : " Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition,... | |
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Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, have been the result of a surprisingly intimate union of the two noblest languages in modern Europe, the Teutonic and the... 
