| Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1851 - 172 pages
...inspection prove ? In every case what they are themselves, the remnant and wreck and ruin of a better and a nobler past. Fearful indeed is the impress of degradation...perhaps even than that which is stamped upon his form. When. wholly letting go the truth, when long and greatly sinning against light and conscience, a people... | |
| Literature - 1852 - 644 pages
...state of barbarism is rather the ruin than the germ of something better. " Fearful, indeed," he says, " is the impress of degradation which is stamped on...perhaps even than that which is stamped upon his form." A few remarkable instances are given. The Bechuanas, a Сайre tribe, have, within the memory of man,... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1852 - 278 pages
...beginnings, its vigorous and healthful germs' But what does their language on close inspection prove ? In every case what they are themselves, the remnant and ruin of a better and a nobler past. Fearful indeed is the impress of degradation which is stamped on the language of the... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1853 - 248 pages
...beginnings, its vigorous and healthful germs. But what does their language on close inspection prove ? In every case what they are themselves, the remnant and ruin of a better and a nobler past. Fearful indeed is the impress of degradation which is stamped on the language of the... | |
| South American missionary society - 310 pages
...answering to the . '«/(#.' of the Araucanos." ,•,„•'. • •. 161 The Testimony of Language, Fearful indeed is the impress of degradation which...perhaps even than that which is stamped upon his form. When wholly letting go the truth, when long and greatly sinning against light and conscience, a people... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1854 - 252 pages
...beginnings, its vigorous and healthful germs. But what does their language on close inspection prove ? In every case what they are themselves, the remnant and ruin of a better and a nobler past. Fearful indeed is the impress of degradation which is stamped on the language of the... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 252 pages
...beginnings, its vigorous and healthful germs. But what does their language on close inspection prove ? In every case what they are themselves, the remnant and ruin of a better and a nobler past. Fearful indeed is the impress of degradation which is stamped on the language of the... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 pages
...beginnings, its vigorous and healthful germs. But what does their language on close inspection prove ? In every case what they are themselves, the remnant and ruin of a better and a nobler past. Fearful indeed in the impress of degradation which is rjuuped on the language of the... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1859 - 254 pages
...close inspection prove ? In every case what they arc themselves, the remnant and ruin of a bettor and a nobler past. Fearful indeed is the impress of degradation which is stamped on the language of tho savage — more fearful perhaps even than that which is stamped upon his form. When wholly lotting... | |
| English language - 1859 - 684 pages
...beginnings, its vigorous and healthful germs. Bat what does their language on close inspection prove ? In every case what they are themselves, the remnant and ruin of a better and a nobler past. Fearful indeed is the impress of degradation which is stamped on the language of the... | |
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