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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocotts Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.
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Language
She ceasd, and ere his words her fate decreed
Impatient watchd the language of his eye:
There pity dwelt.
Shenstone.Love and Honour.
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Languages are the pedigree of nations.
Dr. Johnson.Crokers Boswell, 340, (
A.D.
1733.)
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Words are the leaves on the tree of language, of which if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
Trench.English past and present, Lect. 3. Page 151. Ed. 5.
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Language is fossil poetry.
Emerson.Essays: The Poet.
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