 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 556 Seiten
...and really it is admirable how many men of genius this country produces at present. Is it not strange that, at a time when we have lost our princes, our...pronunciation ; speak a very corrupt dialect of the tongue we make use of,-^— is it not strange, I say, that, in these circumstances, we should really be the... | |
 | Eugene Lawrence - 1855 - 390 Seiten
...fertility of the native intellect, he exclaims to Gilbert Elliot, in grateful surprise, " Is it not strange that at a time when we have lost our princes, our...presence of our chief nobility ; are unhappy in our pronunciation ; speak a very corrupt dialect of the tongue we make use of — is it not strange, I... | |
 | Eugene Lawrence - 1855 - 410 Seiten
...our chief nobility ; are unhappy in our pronunciation ; speak a very corrupt dialect of tho tongue we make use of — -is it not strange, I say, that in these circumstances we should really he the people the most distinguished for literature in Europe !" In all this mental progress,... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 Seiten
...: Really it is admirable how many Men of Genius this Country produces at present. Is it not strange that, at a time when we have lost our Princes, our...Government, even the Presence of our chief Nobility, are uuhappy, in our Accent & Pronunciatinn, speak a very corrupt Dialect of the Tongue which we make use... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 Seiten
...to Gilbert Elliot of 1757, and the subject is the distinction of Scottish writers: Is is not strange that , at a time when we have lost our princes, our...pronunciation; speak a very corrupt dialect of the tongue we make use of, — is it not strange, I say, that, in these circumstances we should really be the... | |
 | Dieter Stein (linguiste).), Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade - 1994 - 342 Seiten
...throughout his life, writes in a letter to Gilbert Elliot of Minto on 2 July 1757: Is it not strange that, at a time when we have lost our Princes, our...of our Chief Nobility, are unhappy, in our Accent & Pronunciation, speak a very corrupt Dialect of the Tongue which we make use of; is it not strange,... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - 1997 - 450 Seiten
...Smollett apostrophized it, was a "hotbed of genius."16 "Is it not strange," writes David Hume in 1757, that, at a time when we have lost our Princes, our...of our chief Nobility, are unhappy, in our Accent & Pronunciation, speak a very corrupt Dialect of the Tongue which we make use of; is it not strange,... | |
 | Barbara Korte, Klaus Peter Müller - 1998 - 280 Seiten
...perplexity into a question: Is it not strange that, at a time when we have lost our princes, our parliament, our independent government, even the presence of our...not strange, I say, that, in these circumstances, we should really be the people most distinguished for literature in Europe? (Hume 1932, 255) Sir Walter... | |
 | Loren Cruden - 1998 - 258 Seiten
...some time prior to union — but also for other gifts. In 1757, David Hume wrote: Is it not strange that, at a time when we have lost our Princes, our...our chief Nobility, are unhappy in our Accent and Pronounciation, speak a corrupt Dialect of the Tongue which we make use of; is it not strange, I say,... | |
 | Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - 1999 - 566 Seiten
...literati to Scots: Is it not strange that, at a time when we have lost our Princes, our Parliament, our independent Government, even the presence of our...Circumstances, we shou'd really be the People most distinguished for literature in Europe? (quoted in Daiches et al. 1986: 16) And Thomas Sheridan, who... | |
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Is it not strange, that at a time when we have lost our Princes, our Parliaments, our independent Government, even the Presence of our chief Nobility, are unhappy, in our Accent & Pronunciation, speak a very corrupt Dialect of the Tongue which we make... 
