 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 548 pages
...had from the favages themfelves. What can the M'Craas tell about themfelves a thoufand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always forry when any language is loft, becaufe languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the fame... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1813 - 484 pages
...had from the savages themselves. What can the M'Craas tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore J am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. If you... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 580 pages
...pedigree of nations' (Bos., ii. 448), he meant it of their broad and distinctive characteristics : — ' If you find the same language in distant countries,...of each have been the same people ; that is to say, a good deal of it the same ; for a word here and there being the same will not do ;' — and he went... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 412 pages
...had from the savages themselves. What can the Macracs tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations,...languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the eame language in distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...had from the savages themselves. What can the M'Craas tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? 3 racter of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man? I am disappointed by th m distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same people ; that... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1860 - 434 pages
...had from the savages themselves. What can the Macraes tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations,...sorry when any language is lost, because languages arc the pedigree of nations. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Melville Bell - 1876 - 184 pages
...rational study of language was little understood. Dr. Johnson had had the sagacity to observe that 'there is no tracing the connection of ancient nations...lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.' This last sentence might stand as the motto for many of the philological and historical discoveries... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 814 pages
...had from the savages themselves. What can the M'Craas tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? ' There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I 1 " What can the M'Craas tell of themselves a thousand years ago ? " More than the Doctor would suppose.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 544 pages
...had from the savages themselves. What can the M'Craas tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? ' There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I 1 " What can the M'Craas tell of themselves a thousand years ago ? " More than the Doctor would suppose.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 454 pages
...had from the savages themselves. What can the Macraes tell about themselves a thousand years ago ? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations,...when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that the... | |
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There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. 
