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" ... the savage the primitive man, we should then find savage tribes furnished, scantily enough, it might be, with the elements of speech, yet at the same time with its fruitful beginnings, its vigorous and healthful germs. But what does their language... "
Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session - Page 394
by United States. Congress. House - 1884
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On the Study of Words: Five Lectures Addressed to the Pupils at the Diocesan ...

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 35

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,...
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On the Study of Words

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...
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On the study of words, 5 lectures

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...
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The Voice of pity for South America [afterw.] A Voice for South ..., Volume 9

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...
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On the Study of Words

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...
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On the Study of Words

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...
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On the study of words, 5 lectures

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...
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On the Study of Words

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...
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 9

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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