The Origin of the English, Germanic and Scandinavian Languages, and Nations —— With a Sketch of Their Early Literature and Short Chronological Specimens of Anglo-Saxon, Friesic, Flemish, Dutch, German From the Mœso-Goths to the Present Time, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish

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ISBN: 9781333913793 出版年：2016 页码：225 Joseph Bosworth Forgotten Books

Language, philosophically considered, is not only a safe guide in tracing the origin and affinity of nations, but an important auxiliary in bearing its testimony to the truth of revelation. In the latter point of View, a clergyman cannot be out of his legitimate province, when investigating the origin and structure of languages.