Remarks on the Irish Language, with a Review of Its Grammars, Glossaries, Vocabularies and Dictionaries: To which is Added, A Model of a Comprehensive Irish DictionaryGraisberry, 1827 - 87 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 18 - The Elements of the Irish Language Grammatically Explained in English. In 14. Chapters. By H. Mac Curtin. Lovain 1728.
الصفحة 31 - ... is entitled to the" gratitude and praise of that country for whose Literature he has done so much by his writings. Since the second Edition of his Grammar no less than four similar publications have appeared, which shall now be introduced in regular order to the attention of the reader.
الصفحة 66 - The author has stated, in the title page, that his work " contains upwards of twenty thousand words that never appeared in any former Irish Lexicon" ! ! ! It is necessary that the student should understand this statement.
الصفحة 83 - there was not in the whole island a mountain or desert, a vale or recess, which was not filled with monks and nuns, so that it justly and deservedly obtained the name of the ' Isle of Saints.' The holy Father Theodorus says, ' as the goodness and fertility of her soil excel all others, so the sanctity, constancy, and simplicity of her saints transcend all others.' Gaufridius says, that ' Ireland is an isle prolific of saints, who are almost as numerous as the stars of heaven.
الصفحة 46 - His system of making the initials of nouns the foundation of the Declensions, in imitation of Doctor O'Brien, is quite absurd, as the Table of final variations subjoined to both Grammars sufficiently prove.
الصفحة 82 - Colleges of Oxford, Landisfarn and Malmesbury in England, of Herbipolis, Cullen, Sengallensis and Fulga in Germany, and of Bobio in Italy ; and youths repaired from all pans to Ireland, insomuch, that it became proverbial with respect to eminent scholars, " that such a person travelled to Ireland to ^acquire learning." St. Adelm, writing to King Alfred, says, that " The learned of Ireland were as numerous as the stars ; that they were transplendant luminaries, enlightening all Europe in wisdom, to...
الصفحة 31 - A GRAMMAR OF THE IRISH LANGUAGE— DUBLIN, 1808, Published in octavo under the fictitious signature EOC ; but the author was William Halliday, a native of Dublin, and a singularly gifted youth, who not only compiled this Grammar, but published the first Volume of a most excellent Translation of Keating's History of Ireland, with the original, on collateral pages. He also proceeded on a Lexicon of the Language, which he would have published, but was prevented by a premature death at the early age...
الصفحة 84 - O'Byrne presides over one thousand one hundred students in the city of Caen, in Britanny, in France. Under your tutelage, dear father, and from your entertaining narration in describing our land, I have received much information. — I could relate more, a thousand-fold, respecting the transcendant merits of our renowned countrymen, were it not too tedious to enumerate them. — It would never be irksome or tedious to me to hear thy melodious accents describing my native country. Pray tell me, then,...
الصفحة 83 - ... Dear son of my heart ! Colum Cille and his twelve companions converting Scotland to the faith. Columbanus and his twelve fellow-labourers instructing in France. Saint Clement and his twelve associates preaching the faith in Germany. Saint Baithan in Iceland. Saint Chillin in Franconia. Saint Servan in the Orcades. Saint Brendan in the Fortunate Isles. Saint Aedan in Northumberland. St Fmian in Marcia.
الصفحة 5 - It is now ascertained that the Irish language is spoken in the interior of many of the West Indian islands, in some of which it may be said to be almost vernacular. This curious fact is satisfactorily explained by documents in the possession of my respected friend, James Hardiman, Esq., author of the History of Gal way. After the reduction of Ireland by Cromwell and his myrmidons, the thousands who were " shipped to the Carribbes" so these islands, were then called, " and sold as (laves," carried...