 | James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pages
...years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore J am always sorry when any language is lost, because...the same ; for a word here and there being the same, not do. Thus Butler., in his HVDIBUAS, remem* bering that Penguin, in the Straits of Magellan, signifies... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 pages
...pedigree of nations' (Bos., ii. 448), he meant it of their broad and distinctive characteristics : — ' If you find the same language in distant countries,...of each have been the same people ; that is to say, a good deal of it the same ; for a word here and there being the same will not do ;' — and he went... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 412 pages
...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. If you find the eame language in distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...years ago ? 3 There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because...pedigree of nations. If you find the same language m distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same people ; that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 1885 - 454 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...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. 
