An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages: Containing an Examination of M. Raynouard's Theory on the Relation of the Italian, Spanish, Provencal and French to the LatinD. A. Talboys, 1835 - 323 Seiten |
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Seite 231 - Mentre che il vento, come fa, si tace. Siede la terra dove nata fui, Su la marina dove il Po discende Per aver pace co
Seite 32 - Et ut easdem homilias quisque aperte transferre studeat in rusticam Romanam linguam aut Theotiscam, quo facilius cuncti possint intelligere quae dicuntur.
Seite 49 - Their language is attacked on every side. Schools are erected, in which English only is taught, and there were lately some who thought it reasonable to refuse them a version of the holy scriptures, that they might have no monument of their mother-tongue.
Seite 52 - Perthshire), have been for centuries the separatory barrier of the English and Gaelic. In the first house below them, the English is and has been spoken, and the Gaelic in the first house, not above a mile distant above them.
Seite 262 - Condussi a far la voglia del Marchese, Come che suoni la sconcia novella E non pur' io qui piango Bolognese : Anzi n...
Seite 27 - when synthetic languages have at an early period been fixed by books which served as models, and by a regular instruction, they retained their form unchanged ; but when they have been abandoned to themselves, and exposed to the fluctuations of all human affairs, they have shown a natural tendency to become analytic, even without having been modified by the mixture of any foreign language.
Seite 246 - D' amor non dei dire mas be, Quar non ai ni petit ni re, Quar ben leu plus no m'en cove; Pero leumens Dona gran joi qui be mante Los aizimens Per tal n' ai meins de bon saber, Quar vuelh so que no puesc aver - Aicel repr'oviers me ditz ver Certanamens: A bon coratg...
Seite 23 - The Moravians have translated the Bible and a book of hymns into the Talkee-talkee or negro language, of which they have also composed a grammar. It is curious that this patois of the blacks, though it includes many African words, should have for its basis the English language, pared of inflections, and softened by a multitude of vowel terminations.
Seite 49 - The clans retain little now of their original character; their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and their reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conquest of their country, there remain only their language and their poverty.
Seite 52 - It is a curious fact," says a writer in the Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xx. p. 490, " that the hills of King's Seat and Craigy Barns, which form the lower boundary of Dowally, (parish in Perthshire,) have been, for centuries, the separating barrier of the English and Gaelic.