A Practical Grammar of the Antient Gaelic, Or Language of the Isle of Man, Usually Called Manks

Couverture
Manx Society, 1870 - 92 pages
 

Pages sélectionnées

Autres éditions - Tout afficher

Expressions et termes fréquents

Fréquemment cités

Page xl - I say unto you, .that inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.
Page xxix - For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Page xxxv - So that to send an uneducated child into the world, is injurious to the rest of mankind ; it is little better than to turn out a mad dog or a wild beast into the streets.
Page xxxix - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Page xxii - March, 1771, with another portion, from Deuteronomy to Job inclusive, we were shipwrecked in a storm. With no small difficulty and danger the manuscript was preserved, by holding it above the water for the space of five hours, and this was almost the only article saved !
Page xxx - These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
Page xiii - It appears like a piece of exquisite net-work interwoven together in a masterly manner, and framed by the hand of a most skilful workman, equal to the composition of the most learned, and not the production of chance. The depth of meaning that abounds in many of the words must be conspicuous to every person versed in the language.
Page 8 - Wales ; as ci mham, her mother ; ei nhai, her nephew. This variation of the initial letters is always regular, and constantly betwixt letters of the same organ of pronunciation ; for a labial letter is never changed to a dental, nor a dental, to a labial, &c. • Adverbs, being formed of adjectives, become...
Page v - It is now entirely discontinued in most of the churches,' an observer wrote in 1859. 'In the schools throughout the island the language has ceased to be taught and the introduction of the Government system of education has done much to displace the language. It is now rarely heard in conversation except among the peasantry. It is a doomed language, an iceberg floating into southern latitudes.'1...

Informations bibliographiques