Indeed, their chiefphilological use consists in the great antiquity of many of the terms, which often preserve Old English and Anglo-French forms with much fidelity.
Owing to this circumstance and to the fact that his very regular metre leaves no doubt as to his grammatical forms, this otherwise uninviting poem has a high philological value.
His explanation of the passage itself is quite an impossible one, if only on philological grounds; but his argument is very interesting and very modern.
In other words, the archaeological method must find support in a philological method.
A member of the community, Brother John Blakoslav, wrote in 1571 a Grammatika Ceska, that still has considerablephilological interest.
This labour he constantly performed, and in the meantime found leisure to prosecute his scientific and philological studies.
In 1849 he was placed in charge of the Philological Seminary at Prague, and two years later was appointed professor of classical philology in Prague University.
A learned English scholar has suggested that the name "Jeoud" is the real origin of the name "Jew," and he assigns several philological and historical reasons for his theory.
Folk-lore and philological data tend to support this view.
Thus there is no such accumulation of philological capacity as there was, let us say, in Beethoven's family of musical capacity.
Thus the inner purpose of philological teaching has been entirely altered; it was at one time material teaching, a teaching that taught how to live, but now it is merely formal.
The means: the limitation of the number of those engaged in the philological profession (doubtful whether young men should be made acquainted with philology at all).
The explanation is absurd, but it shows how Euripides could transfer the doubt and distrust of his own age, and its attempt at a philological interpretation of myth, to the remote heroic tunes.
On the philological theory, man first regards phenomena in our modern way as impersonal; he then gives them personality as the result of a disease of language, of a forgetfulness of the sense of words.
It would be necessary then to discuss the philological hypothesis of the origin and nature of these original Aryan myths themselves; but to do so would lead us far from the study of mere popular tales.
Here then we have thephilological theory of the personality and conduct of Zeus.
Hahn's ingenious hypothesis has been already examined by us,* it is unnecessary again to discuss the philological basis of his argument.
A philological theory of the causes which produced the change is set forth by Mr. Keary in his book Primitive Belief.
There has been a good deal of mystification about Michabo or Manibozho, or Messou, who was probably, in myth, a hare sans phrase, but who has been converted by philological processes into a personification of light or dawn.
Thus it appears that, after all, even on philological showing, the religions and myths of a civilised people may be illustrated by the religions and myths of savages.
As Schreiber observes, the philological guesses really throw no light on the nature of Artemis.
But the world cannot be expected to be convinced by philological scholars before they have convinced each other.
However, on the question of technical merits, the American Philosophical Society was probably right, as against the London Philological Society represented by Mr. Ellis.
Such a commission would examine experts and witnesses from representative bodies, such as academies, institutes, philological and other learned societies.
The London Philological Society commissioned Mr. Ellis to investigate the subject, and upon his report declined to co-operate.
This is indicated by the philological significance of the term adulterate, compounded of two words meaning to another, as the addition of pure and impure liquors, or of an alloy with pure metal.
The study of the Sclavonian language and literature has more than a merely philological interest.
An interesting article in the last Southern Quarterly Review on the life and writings of Edward Everett embraces some learned and elegant philological discussions, in which Mr. Everett (of whom Dr.
The first has "Memoirs upon the new efforts towards a philological investigation of the old Sclavonian Language," and "Thoughts upon the History of the Russian Language.
But in all these cases I have endeavoured to support my argument, not merely with philological data, as has been the case with most of my predecessors, but with evidence drawn from anthropology and archaeology.
I am ready to admit, at any rate for the sake of argument, that no such philological evidence exists.
This school has for thirty years been engaged in proving that there is no philological evidence for the existence of Goidelic speech in England or Wales, except such as was introduced from Ireland in the third or fourth century, /A.
I do not wish to dispute the philological evidence, nor do I feel competent to do so.
But early in 1891 an important communication was made to thePhilological Society by Professor, afterwards Sir, John Rhys.
This paper raised a storm of hostile criticism, especially in Germany,[464] and its conclusions have not found favour in philological circles.
I would, however, point out that the absence of philological evidence of their presence is not conclusive evidence of their absence.
By 1890 the philological enthusiasm died out, at least in this country and in France, though for a time it lingered on in Germany.
With Notes, Philological and Explanatory, and an Introduction on the Teaching of English.
This, with the absence of any addition corresponding to the Hebrew Kasdim, is the principal flaw in what would otherwise be a perfect philological comparison.
It is transcribed Ab by those who follow the old system of reading Egyptian, so that the present documents seem to support the philological views of the Berlin school.
Belleli, of the Philological Section of the Instituto di Studi Superiori in Florence, doubts the genuineness of the papyri found at Elephantine on account of chronological difficulties.
Philological and linguistic details which were not suited for the senior pupils who were being fitted for other callings than those of the philologist were omitted.
His editions and philological papers are remarkable for bold conjectural emendations of corrupt (and other) passages.
He studied first at Bonn and afterwards at Berlin, where his attention was directed towards the philologicalpeculiarities of the South African languages.
The present publication may be considered as the foundation-stone of the Historical and Literary portion of the Philological Society’s proposed English Dictionary.
The following pieces will be printed in the second part of the Philological Society’s Transactions for 1858, and are therefore included in the Glossary.
To this philological reason, we must further add, that the circumstance would be here altogether destitute of significance, while every other feature in the description is full of meaning.
But this explanation must be rejected onphilological grounds.
The philological difficulty of their speaking a non-Germanic dialect is not insurmountable.
Mr. Gallatin has proposed the term "Algonkin-Lenape," as a philological denomination for this important family.
Certainly it is not merely the mastery of technical obscurities of language, the solving of philological puzzles, or the careful examination of historical facts.
No version will be adopted without ample and thorough revision, correcting its errors by the lights of modern research, and placing it on a level with the present improved state of philological learning.
Be that as it may, the way in which I got possession of this manuscript will never be effaced from my memory; and the essay of Fray Urbano, although I am no judge of its philological merits, has still a great interest in my eyes.
