 This language, preserved in a corner of Europe, by a few thousand mountaineers, is the sole remaining fragment of perhaps a hundred dialects, constructed on the same plan, which probably existed and were universally spoken, at a remote period, in that...  Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind - Page 25by James Cowles Prichard - 1841Full view - About this book
 | England - 1854 - 758 pages
...by its speakers, Duponcean long ago said : — " This language, preserved in a corner of Europe, by a few thousand mountaineers, is the sole remaining...which have perished, it remains a monument of the destrnction brought by a succession of ages. It stands single and alone of its kind, surrounded by... | |
 | American Philosophical Society. Historical & Literary Committee - Delaware Indians - 1819 - 534 pages
...p. 563. $ Untersuchungen, &c. p. 311. ment of, perhaps, a hundred dialects, constructed on the game plan, which probably existed and were universally spoken at a remote period in that quarter of the globe. Like the bones of the Mammoth, and the shells of unknown fishes, the races of which have perished,... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indian mythology - 1824 - 350 pages
...in all the rest of the world. It is preserved in a corner of Lurope, by a few thousand mountaineers, the sole remaining fragment of, perhaps, a hundred...existed and were universally spoken at a remote period in'that quarter of the globe. Like the bones of the Mammoth, and the shells of unknown fishes, the... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indian mythology - 1824 - 164 pages
...It is preserved ma corner of Europe, by a tew thousand mountaineers, the sole remaining trag nient of, perhaps, a hundred dialects, constructed on the...universally spoken at a remote period in that quarter ofthe globe. Like the bones of the Mammoth, and the shells of unknown fishes, the races of which have... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 578 pages
...yet investigated, exhibiting undoubted marks of originality. ' It is preserved in a corner of Europe, the sole remaining fragment of perhaps a hundred dialects,...spoken, at a remote period, in that quarter of the globe. Like the bones of the mammoth, and the shells of unknown fishes, theraces of which have perished,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 580 pages
...yet investigated, exhibiting undoubted marks of originality. ' It is preserved in a corner of Europe, the sole remaining fragment of perhaps a hundred dialects,...spoken, at a remote period, in that quarter of the globe. Like the bones of the mammoth, and the shells of unknown fishes, theraces of which have perished,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 594 pages
...yet investigated, exhibiting undoubted marks of originality. ' It is preserved in a corner of Europe, the sole remaining fragment of perhaps a hundred dialects, constructed on the r.ame plan, which probably existed, and were universally spoken, at a remote period, in that quarter... | |
 | John Forbes,M.D.,F.R.S.,F.G.S.,Edited By. - 1847 - 634 pages
...mind that, as M. de Ponceau has observed, the Euskanw language, "preserved in a corner of Europe by a few thousand mountaineers, is the sole remaining...which probably existed and were universally spoken •' a remote period in that quarter of the world." We should do very vrroi'j' if we were to attempt... | |
 | England - 1854 - 760 pages
...by its speakers, Duponceau long ago said : — " This language, preserved in a corner of Europe, by a few thousand mountaineers, is the sole remaining...perished, it remains a monument of the destruction brought by a succession of ages. It stands single and alone of its kind, surrounded by idioms •whose... | |
 | Scotland - 1854 - 768 pages
...mountaineers, is the solo remaining fragment of perhaps a hundred dialects, constructed on the samo plan, which probably existed and were universally...remote period, in that quarter of the world. Like tho bones of the mammoth, and the relics of unknown races which have perished, it remains a monument... | |
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