Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration ; some words go off, and become obsolete ; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use ; or the same word is inverted to a new sense... The Works of Richard Bentley, D. D. - Page 1by Richard Bentley - 1836 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
| Peter James Silzer, Thomas John Finley - Religion - 260 pages
...living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and lateration; some words go off, and become obsolete; others are...a language as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.1 The study of how languages change through time is called historical linguistics. Linguists can... | |
| John T. Lynch - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 244 pages
...by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense and notion, which in a tract of time makes as observable a change in the...Language, as Age makes in the lines and mien of a Face.17 This argument was in principle no longer surprising when Bentley advanced it; some kind of... | |
| A. W. Ward - English literature - 1967 - 436 pages
...Epistles are written, he says : Even the Attic of the true Fhalaris's age is not there represented, hut a more recent idiom and style, that by the whole thread...own native tongues, where continual use makes every man a critic. For what Englishman does not think himself able, from the very turn and fashion of the... | |
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