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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 198 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=11mm, Gew.=295gr, [GR: 25590 - TB/Geschichte/Sonstiges], [SW: - H… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 198 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=11mm, Gew.=295gr, [GR: 25590 - TB/Geschichte/Sonstiges], [SW: - History - General History], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. IT is with good right that we speak of some languages as living, of others as dead. All spoken languages may be ranged in the first class; for as men will never consent to use a language without more or less modifying it in their use, will never so far forgo their own activity as to leave it exactly where they found it, there follows from this that so long as it is thus the utterance of men thinking and acting, it will inevitably show itself alive, and that by many unmistakeable proofs, by growth and misgrowth, by acquisition and loss, by progress and decay. This title therefore of living, a spoken language abundantly deserves; for it is one in which, spoken as it is by living men, vital energies are still in operation. It is one which is in course of actual evolution; which, if the life that animates it be a healthy one, is appropriating and assimilating to itself what it anywhere finds congenial to its own life, multiplying its resources, increasing its wealth; while at the same time it is casting off useless and cumbersome forms, dismissing from its vocabulary words of which it finds no use, rejecting by a reactive energy the foreign and heterogeneous, which may for a while have forcedthemselves upon it.1 In the process of all this it may easily make mistakes; in the desire to simplify, it may let go distinctions which were not useless, and which it would have been better to retain; the acquisitions which it makes are very far from being all gains; it sometimes rejects as worthless, and suffers to die out, what served for many and most necessary uses, was most worthy to have lived. So far as it falls into any of these mistakes its life is not healthy; it is not growing richer but poorer; there are here tokens, however remote...<

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English, Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench, Books, History, English, Past and Present Books>History Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. IT is with good right that we speak of some languages as living, of others as dead. All spoken languages may be ranged in the first class; for as men will never consent to use a language without more or less modifying it in their use, will never so far forgo their own activity as to leave it exactly where they found it, there follows from this that so long as it is thus the utterance of men thinking and acting, it will inevitably show itself alive, and that by many unmistakeable proofs, by growth and misgrowth, by acquisition and loss, by progress and decay. This title therefore of living, a spoken language abundantly deserves; for it is one in which, spoken as it is by living men, vital energies are still in operation. It is one which is in course of actual evolution; which, if the life that animates it be a healthy one, is appropriating and assimilating to itself what it anywhere finds congenial to its own life, multiplying its resources, increasing its wealth; while at the same time it is casting off useless and cumbersome forms, dismissing from its vocabulary words of which it finds no use, rejecting by a reactive energy the foreign and heterogeneous, which may for a while have forcedthemselves upon it.1 In the process of all this it may easily make mistakes; in the desire to simplify, it may let go distinctions which were not useless, and which it would have been better to retain; the acquisitions which it makes are very far from being all gains; it sometimes rejects as worthless, and suffers to die out, what served for many and most necessary uses, was most worthy to have lived. So far as it falls into any of these mistakes its life is not healthy; it is not growing richer but poorer; there are here tokens, however remote...<