History of the European Languages: Or, Researches Into the Affinities of the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic, Sclavonic, and Indian Nations, Volumen1

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A. Constable & Company, 1823
 

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Página 100 - O flowers. That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ! Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount...
Página 212 - For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office, so we being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Página 445 - And hotch'd and blew wi' might and main : Till first ae caper, syne anither, Tarn tint his reason a' thegither, And roars out, " Weel done, cutty-sark !" And in an instant all was dark : And scarcely had he Maggie rallied, When out the hellish legion sallied. As bees bizz out wi...
Página 273 - He spake : and, to confirm his words, out-flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell : Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clash'd on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Página xlviii - Gad, Sandy, I shall try thee with Latin ;' and, accordingly, read over to me no less than two of the declensions. It was his custom with me to permit me to get as long lessons as I pleased, and never to fetter me by joining me to a class. There was at that time in the school a class of four boys, advanced as far as the pronouns in Latin grammar. They ridiculed my separated condition. But before the vacation in August I had reached the end of the Rudiments, knew a good deal more than they, by reading...
Página xxxviii - The Bible, used every night in the family, I was not permitted to open or touch. The rest of the books were put up in chests. I at length got a New Testament, and read the historical parts with great curiosity and ardour. But...
Página xxxviii - ... with the black end of an extinguished heather stem or root, snatched from the fire. I soon learned all the alphabet in this form, and became writer as well as reader. I wrought with the board and brand continually. Then the catechism was presented, and in a month or two I could read the easier parts of it. I daily amused myself with copying, as above, the printed letters. In May, 1782, he gave me a small...
Página xlvi - Drigmorn, an old woman, who lived near, showed me her Psalm-book, which was printed with a large type, had notes on each page, and likewise what I discovered to be the Hebrew alphabet, marked letter after letter in the 119th Psalm. I took a copy of these letters, by printing them off in my old way, and kept them.
Página 28 - BWAG, of which FAG and PAG are , softer varieties. III. To strike with a harsh, violent, strong blow, DWAG, of which THWAG and TWAG are varieties. IV. To move or strike with a quick tottering unequal impulse, GWAG or CWAG.
Página 386 - Since naething's awa', as we can learn, The kirn's to kirn, and milk to earn, Gae but the house, lass, and waken my bairn, And bid her come quickly ben.

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