 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...anchor and holi!.'] The hold or fastness of the anchor ; and, figuratively, security. The old English could express most aptly all the conceits of the mind in their own tongue, without borrowing from any ; as for example : the holy service of God, which the Latins called rrliriau, because it knitted the... | |
 | Joseph Gwilt - 1829 - 72 pages
...Great verily was the glory of our Tongue before the Norman Conquest, in this, that " the old English could express most aptly, all the conceits of the...in their own " Tongue, without borrowing from any." CiMDBN's REMAINS. LONDON : WILLIAM PICKERING. M.DCCC.XXIX. TO CHARLES GEORGE YOUNG, ESQUIRE, YORK HERALD,... | |
 | 1833 - 720 pages
...(which may indeed yet be said of its original German) could express most aptly all the conceptions of the mind, in their own tongue, without borrowing from any." A mixture of the dialects of the Old English, the Teutonic, Saxon, German, and Norman French, now constitutes... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 pages
...GREAT verily was the glory of our tongue before the Norman conquest, in this, that the old English could express most aptly, all the conceits of the mind in their own tongue, without borrowing from.any." * From the Anglo-Saxons are derived the names of the most ancient officers in England, of... | |
 | John Yonge Akerman - 1842 - 92 pages
...Great, verily, was the glory of our tongue before the Norman Conquest, in this, that the Old English could express most aptly all the conceits of the mind in their own tongue without borrowing from any." — Camderi•s Remainei, p. 25, edit. 1636. PREFACE. " THE etymologist," says Cornelius Agrippa in... | |
 | John Yonge Akerman - 1842 - 88 pages
...Great, verily, was the glory of our tongue before the Norman Conquest, in this, that the Old English could express most aptly all the conceits of the mind in their own tongue without borrowing from any.''—Camden's Remaines, p. 25, edit. 1636. < PREFACE. " THE etymologist," says Cornelius Agrippa... | |
 | 1837 - 528 pages
...GREAT verily was the glory of our tongue before the Norman conquest, in this, that the old English could express most aptly, all the conceits of the...in their own tongue, without borrowing from any." * From the Anglo-Saxons are derived the names of the most ancient officers in England, of the greater... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...verily, was the glory of the English tongue before the Norman conquest, in this that the Old English could express most aptly all the conceits of the mind in their own tongue, without borrowing from any. For example, the holy service of God, which the Latins call religio, because it knitteth the minds... | |
 | John Kitto - 1853 - 302 pages
...righteous and the fields of sinners. — Dr. Jeremy Taylor. THE old English people could express more aptly all the conceits of the mind in their own tongue, without borrowing from any. As, for example, the holy service of God, which the Latins called religion, because it knitted the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...the glory of the English tongue (An.-Sax.) before the Norman Conquest, in this, that the Old English could express most aptly all the conceits of the mind in their own tongue, without borrowing from any. For example, the holy service of God, which the Latins call religio, because it knitteth the minds... | |
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Great, verily, was the glory of the English tongue (An.-Sax.) before the Norman Conquest, in this, that the Old English could express most aptly all the conceits of the mind in their own tongue, without borrowing from any. 
