Manuals of the science and art of teaching. Advanced ser1879 |
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Seite 50 - If under changing conditions of life organic beings present individual differences in almost every part of their structure, and this cannot be disputed; if there be, owing to their geometrical rate of increase, a severe struggle for life at some age, season, or year, and this certainly cannot be disputed; then, considering the infinite complexity of the relations of all organic beings...
Seite 49 - Thus, suppose the English language to be divided into a hundred parts : of these, to make a rough distribution, sixty would be Saxon ; thirty would be Latin (including, of course, the Latin which has come to us through the French) ; five would be Greek. We should thus have assigned ninety five parts, leaving the other five, perhaps too large a residue, to be divided among all the other languages from which we have adopted isolated words.
Seite 50 - ... struggle for life at some age, season or year, and this certainly cannot be disputed; then, considering the infinite complexity of the relations of all organic beings to each other and to their conditions of life, causing an infinite diversity in structure, constitution and habits, to be advantageous to them, it would be a most extraordinary fact if no variations had ever occurred useful to each being's own welfare, in the same manner as so many variations have occurred useful to man.
Seite 50 - ... a severe struggle for life at some age, season, or year, and this certainly cannot be disputed ; then, considering the infinite complexity of the relations of all organic beings to each other and to their conditions of life, causing an infinite diversity in structure, constitution, and habits...
Seite 49 - ... of the preterites and participles of the verbs, whether regular or irregular, and the most frequent termination of our adverbs (ly) are all Anglo-Saxon.
Seite 48 - In these days of railroads, steamboats, and telegraphs, of sun-pictures, of chemistry and geology, of improved wearing stuffs, furniture, styles of building, articles of food and luxury of every description, how many words and phrases are in every one's mouth which would be utterly unintelligible to the most learned man of a century ago, were he to rise from his grave and walk our streets...
Seite 54 - Milanese were the first milliners, deriving their name from the sale of a particular dress, first worn at Milan in Italy. So, mantuamakers, who in like manner introduced a new dress in Mantua; cordwainers, who made shoes, etc., out of Cordova leather ; ostlers, written at first
Seite 58 - Bunyan's saws Some tumid trickster must translate. Our language like our daily life, Accords the homely and sublime, And jars with phrases that are rife With pedantry of every clime. For eloquence it clangs like arms, For love it touches tender chords, But he to whom the world's heart warms Must speak in wholesome, home-bred words. To the reader who is familiar with Beranger's "Derniers Chansons" these lines will bring to mind two stanzas in the poet's "Tambour Major...
Seite 51 - Lay on, Mac-duff; and damned be he who first cries, 'Hold! Enough!
Seite 51 - Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber." " Now I lay me down to sleep." The tendency to the confusion of the two verbs may be partly due to the fact that the preterite of lie is lay.