The Journal [afterw.] The Madras journal of literature and science, ed. by J.C. Morris |
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Page 199 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 154 - Though the former tribe neither use sepulchral urns nor erect monuments at the present day, they invariably burn the remains of their dead within a circle of stones, and afterwards bury them there, as will be hereafter described ; while the presence of the buffalo images, and the similarity in make and texture of the ancient urns to the modern pottery of their workpeople, the Khotas, seem to indicate some connection between the Todas of past days and the remains in question.
Page 59 - ... a tree ;' neither could they express abstract qualities, such as hard, soft, warm, cold, long, short, round, etc. ; for ' hard,' they would say ' like a stone ; ' for ' tall,' they would say ' long legs,' etc. ; and for ' round,' they said
Page 2 - Stage. This stage is best represented by the Turanian family of speech, and the languages belonging to it have generally been called agglutinative^ from gluten, glue. The third stage, in which roots coalesce so that neither the one nor the other retains its substantive independence, I call the Inflectional Stage.
Page 153 - It seems to me," says Dr. Meyer, "that the Celtic nation transported itself from Asia, and more particularly from Asiatic Scythia, to Europe, and to this country, by two principal routes, which 'it resumed at different epochs, and thus formed two great streams of migration, flowing, as it were...
Page 199 - For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Page 72 - ... really an attempt to mark out the substantive more definitely by guarding it, as it were, with the same suffixed noun set at the beginning and at the end. It was thus separated from the rest of the sentence, and proved the yet living consciousness of the origin and force of the feminine termination. Gender, consequently, is by no means engrained in the nature of things. It is a secondary accident of speech, ornamental, perhaps, from an aesthetic point of view, but practically highly detrimental...
Page 13 - ... same human stream passed into New Guinea, New Caledonia, Melanesia and Polynesia in the same way. That the race spread far and wide is evidenced by the extensive distribution of its remnants. In the speech of the present occupants of these lands traces of an original stock language can be detected. A language can adopt and create as many words as it pleases, without changing its character or altering its peculiar construction. Comparative philology must be studied side by side with comparative...
Page 153 - It seems to me, then, that the Celtic nation transported itself from Asia, and more particularly from Asiatic Scythia, to Europe and to this country by two principal routes, which it resumed at different epochs, and thus formed two great streams of migration flowing as it were periodically. The one, in a south-western direction, proceeding through Syria and Egypt and thence along the northern coast of Africa, reached Europe at the Pillars of Hercules, and passing on through Spain to Gaul here divided...
Page 153 - Celtic nation transpoited itself from Asia, and more particularly from Asiatic Scythia, to Europe, and to this country, by two principal routes, which it resumed at different epochs, and thus formed two great streams of migration, flowing, as it were, periodically. The one in a south-western direction, proceeding through Syria and Egypt, and thence along the northern coast of Africa, reached Europe at the Pillars of Hercules, and passing on through Spain to Gaul...