 | Electronic journals - 1915 - 470 pages
...the generations that follow, and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across the gulfs of time, in which empires have suffered shipwreck...languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." So, whether we consider them singly or collectively, we can expect to find in the place-names of a... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...important a matter?] they [tho ' winged words ' of Old Homer] have maintained their flight across gulls of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck,...languages of common life have sunk into oblivion; and they are still full of the life-blood of immortal youth." We are inclined to doubt this last statement:... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1852 - 252 pages
...been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations...languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1852 - 278 pages
...been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations...safely across gulfs of time in which empires have sufiered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." And for all these reasons... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1853 - 248 pages
...been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations...languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.'" And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1854 - 252 pages
...been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations...languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 pages
...been as bright, but would also have been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations...freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which • The rocks on each side of the S'raits of Gibraltar, were called by the ancients "The Pillars of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 pages
...been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. "Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations...languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 252 pages
...been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations...languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 252 pages
...been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " "Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations...across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered ship wreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." And for all these reasons far... | |
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Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow ; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into... 
