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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... "
The Popular Educator - Page 250
1856
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Archaeologia Cambrensis

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...
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The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, Volume 1

William Whewell - Induction (Logic) - 1847 - 754 pages
...and they carry with them, iu their import, the results of deep and laborious trains of research. They convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations...languages of common life have sunk into oblivion. We have still in constant circulation among us the Terms which belong to the geometry, the astronomy,...
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The Literary World, Volume 7

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:...
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On the Study of Words

Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1852 - 278 pages
...and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures...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...
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On the study of words, 5 lectures

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1853 - 248 pages
...and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures...into oblivion.'" And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works which may have been composed in it....
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On the Study of Words

Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1854 - 252 pages
...and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures...into oblivion." And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works which may have been composed in it....
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Cassell's lessons in English. From the 'Popular educator'.

John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 pages
...arrested and fixed, might have been as bright, but would also have been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. Words convey the mental treasures...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...
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On the study of words, 5 lectures

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 pages
...and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. "Words convey the mental treasures...into oblivion." And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works which may have been composed in it....
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On the Study of Words

Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 252 pages
...and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures...into oblivion." And for all these reasons far more and mightier in every way is a language than any one of the works which may have been composed in it....
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On the Study of Words

Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 252 pages
...and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " "Words convey the mental treasures...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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