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BASED ON MODERN RESEARCHES,
AND ESPECIALLY ON THE WORKS OF M. RENAN.
BY FREDERIC W. FARRAR, M.A.
LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1860.
LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
TO
RICHARD GARNETT, ESQ.,
OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM,
These Pages are Dedicated,
IN
REMEMBRANCE OF MANY ACTS OF HELP AND KINDNESS.
I wish this little book to be in every respectas unpretending as possible. I do not presumeto represent myself as an original investigator,nor do I aspire to a greater distinction thanthat of representing clearly and intelligentlythe views of those distinguished writers whohave made the study of philology the chiefpursuit of their lives.
While I have quoted my authorities foralmost every statement of importance, I havegenerally used my own language, and even inthose paragraphs which I have put betweeninverted commas I have so frequently abbreviated,expanded, or transposed, that the passages[viii]must not be criticised as though theyhad been intended for direct translations.
I do not think that I have ever borrowed fromany writer, English, French, or German, withoutample acknowledgment. I would not be sodishonest as to shine in borrowed plumes. Ifin one or two cases I have been guilty ofapparent plagiarism it is certainly only fromthe works of those authors whom I cannot beconsidered to have robbed wilfully, becausetheir writings are honourably referred to onalmost every page. I wish this remark toapply especially to the very clear, learned, andbeautiful treatises of M. Ernest Renan, to whichI am largely indebted, and without which Ishould not have undertaken this work.
The questions here handled have always beento me full of interest; and these chapters havebeen chiefly written because I have invariablyfound that they are also full of interest to younglearners. Should it be proved that I have rashly[ix]intruded on a task beyond my powers, no onewill more regret this attempt than I shallmyself.
The books of which I have made chief usein the following pages are
Grimm, Ueber den Ursprung der Sprache.
Heyse, System der Sprachwissenschaft.
Lersch, Die Sprachphilosophie der Alten.
Renan, De l’Origine du Langage.
Renan, Hi BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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