 | Electronic journals - 1915 - 554 pages
...like dialect words, embody amber-like relics of ancient wisdom and history. "Words," says Dr. Trench, "convey the mental treasures of one period to the...this, their precious freight, they sail safely across the gulfs of time, in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1847 - 756 pages
...and they carry with them, in their import, the results of deep and laborious trains of research. They convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations...shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion. We have still in constant circulation among us the Terms which belong to the geometry, the... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1852 - 256 pages
...arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of...shipwreck, and the 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1853 - 248 pages
...arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of...shipwreck, and the 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1854 - 494 pages
...henceforward in some sort the common heritage of all. have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of...shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." 9. And, for all these reasons, far more and mightier in every way is a language than any... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1854 - 252 pages
...arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of...shipwreck, and the. 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... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 pages
...fixed, might have been as bright, but would also have been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. Words convey the mental treasures of one...that follow ; and laden with this, their precious fteight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which 136 empires hare suffered shipwreck, and the... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 252 pages
...arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of...shipwreck, and the 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 244 pages
...arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " Words convey the mental treasures of...shipwreck, and the 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 252 pages
...arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. " "Words convey the mental treasures of...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... 
