The Oxford English Prize Essays volume 3

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The Oxford English Prize Essays volume 3
James Howell
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Other sources of information must be consulted to account for their present usage : a Grecian custom will explain comic ; an historical fact in the progress of Christianity has affixed to pagan its present meaning ; and the national abhorrence of slavery has determined the usage of villain, as of knave ; while the term rustic, p See Dr. Campbell's Prelim. Dissert, to the Translation of the Gospels.
VOL. II. H 74 ETYMOLOGY.
having alone suffered by none of those moral influences, alone retains i
...ts true and etymological signification.
In the application, therefore, of etymology to any language, we must consider everything re- lating to the history of those who speak it, as a necessary part of our study. And the principle on which this rule is founded, is exceedingly simple and decisive : we are hereby enabled to put ourselves in the same situation with those who first imposed the name, and are in a degree actuated by the same impulses, which subse- quently applied to it a different signification.


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