 | William Whewell - Induction (Logic) - 1837 - 646 pages
...the preceding condition. Though our comparison might be bold, it would be just, if we were to say, that the English language is a conglomerate of Latin...constantly undergoing a series of connected changes. But, wide as is the view which such considerations give us of the class of sciences to which geology... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1046 pages
...the preceding condition. Though our comparison might be bold, it would be just, if we were to say, that the English language is a conglomerate of Latin...constantly undergoing a series of connected changes. But, wide as is the view which such considerations give us of the class of sciences to which geology... | |
 | William Balfour Winning - History, Ancient - 1838 - 326 pages
...of the preceding condition. Though our comparison might be bold, it would be just if we were to say, that the English language is a conglomerate of Latin...a Norman or some other channel. Thus the study of palsetiology in the materials of the earth, is only a type of similar studies with respect to all the... | |
 | William Whewell - Physical sciences - 1847 - 740 pages
...notice another common circumstance iu the studies which we are grouping together as palaetiological, diverse as they are in their subjects. In all of them...a Norman or some other channel. Thus the study of paljetiology in the materials of the earth, is only a type of similar studies with respect to all the... | |
 | Richard Dawes - Teaching - 1849 - 228 pages
...be, through good books — a school through life. A celebrated writer of the present day, has said, "The English language is a conglomerate of Latin words,...long rolling in a Norman, or some other channel." Now, although this definition is somewhat geological in its language, as the author intended it to... | |
 | 1851 - 268 pages
...directly from the parent quarry with all their sharp edges, and partly pebbles of the same materisl, obscured and shaped by long rolling in a Norman — or some other channel." Such being the case, how necessary it is to separate this conglomerate, in order that it may be viewed... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...Flemings and Low Dutch." " Though our comparison might be bold, it would be just if we were to say that the English language is a conglomerate of Latin...by long rolling in a Norman or some other channel." — WHEWELL'S History of the Inductive Sciences. lege of a prescription, ancient and universal, than... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 768 pages
...Flemings and Low Dutch." " Though our comparison might be bold, it would be just if we were to say that the English language is a conglomerate of Latin...by long rolling in a Norman or some other channel." — WHEWELI.'S History of the Inductive Sciences. lege of a prescription, ancient and universal, than... | |
 | 1857 - 408 pages
...righteousness." — Henry. " . . . . Though our comparison might be bold, it would be just if we were to sny that the English language is a conglomerate of Latin...long rolling in a Norman, or some other channel." — Whewell. " Oxen, sheep, calves, and pigs, while under the farmer's care, are distinguished by their... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1857 - 516 pages
...from the French; and our phrases in navigation, that we were taught by the Flemings and Low Dutch." words bound together in a Saxon cement; the fragments...by long rolling in a Norman or some other channel." — WHEWELL'S History of the Inductive Sciences. CAMDEN observes: "Whereas our tongue is mixed, it... | |
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Though our comparison might be bold, it would be just, if we were to assert, that the English language is a conglomerate of Latin words, bound together in a Saxon cement; the fragments of the Latin being partly portions introduced directly from the parent... 
