Quote: English has adopted words in every generation from every distant region

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our language is well known not to be primitive or self-originated, but to have adopted words of every generation, and, either for the supply of its necessities, or in the increase of its copiousness, to have received additions from every distant regions; so that in search of the progenitors of our speech, we may wander from the topic to the frozen zone, and find some in the valleys of Palestine, and some upon the rocks of Norway.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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