... most legitimate anxiety which should direct itself to the preservation of the correct forms and precise meanings of these numerous and peculiarly national ...
... The native tongues supply an inexhaustible store of sonorous, appropriate, and unused names. As has well been said by an earlier writer, No class ...
... descent of nations. If this is true in general, it is particularly so in the ethnology of America. Language is almost our only clue to discover the ...
... stock,-whose various clans extended from the palmetto swamps of Carolina to the snow-clad hills of Labrador, and from the easternmost cape of ...
... on these personal topics. In no other way can the history of the development of his arts be reached. You are doubtless aware that diligent students ...
... between them. Did they know love as something else than lust. Were the pre-eminently civilizing traits of the feminine nature recognized and allowed ...
... out the growth of words, and thus reveal the operations of the native mind by a series of witnesses whose testimony cannot be questioned. Often curious ...
... Saviour. Here is an unexpected antithesis, the words for a murderer and the Saviour both from one root. It illustrates how strange is the concatenation ...
... can be overlooked, none can be left out of account. One is just as important as another. Goethe once said that he who knows but one language knows none ...
... we explain the complicated structure of highly-organized tongues like our own, would we learn the laws which have assigned to it its material ...
... own language is the best one extant, the highest in the scale, and that wherein others differ from it in structure they are inferior. So unfortunately ...
... vividness to narratives, and directness and life to propositions. Of these pronouns, that of the first person is usually the most developed. From it, ...
... in the verbal expression, the object and manner of the action. This is effected by making the subject of the verb an inseparable prefix, and by inserting ...
... and elsewhere, there is but one word for the three expressions, his father, he is a father, and he has a father in many, the simple form of the ...
... has almost always been overlooked or misunderstood by critics of these languages. These have been free in condemning the synthetic forms of construction. ...
... to reap all the fruit that it promises. It is believed at present that there are about two hundred wholly independent stocks of languages among ...
... globe, and his results promise to be of the first order of importance for linguistic science. In America we find examples of such in the Chinook jargon ...
... is as important to the philosophic study of speech as any of the dialects of Greece or India. What is wanted is by offering prizes for essays in this ...
... Brinton. From the preface Both for its historical and linguistic merits the document which is presented in this volume is one of the most important in ...
... Ethnologist View Of HistoryAn Ethnologist S View Of History by Daniel G Brinton. An excerpt History should be an accurate record of events and nothing ...