On the Study of Words: Lectures Addressed (Originally) to the Pupils At the ...
On the Study of Words: Lectures Addressed (Originally) to the Pupils At the ...
Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886
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Such investigations as these, however, lie plainly out of your sphere. Not so, however, those humbler yet not less interesting inquiries' which by the aid of any tolerable dictionary you may carry on into the past history of your own land, as borne witness to by the present language of its people, on which language the marks and vestiges of great revolutions are visibly and profoundly impressed, never again to be obliter- ated from it. You know how the geologist is able from the different strat...a and deposits, primary, second- ary, or tertiary, succeeding one another, which he meets, to arrive at the successive physical changes through which a region has passed ; is in a condition to preside at those changes, to measure the forces which were at work to produce them, and almost to indicate their date. Now with such a composite Ian- ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANG0AQE. 95 gnage as the English before ns, we may earrj on moral and historical researches precisely analogous to his. Here too arc strata and deposits, not of gravel and chalk, sandstone and limestone, but of Celtic, Latin, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and then again Latin and French words, with slighter intrusions from other quarters : and any one with skill to analyze the lan- guage might re-create for himself the history of the people speaking that language, might come to appre- ciate the divers elements out of which that people was composed, in what proportion tlieso were mingled, and in what succession they followed one upon the other..
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