 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 páginas
...change their meanings, as well as their spelling and pronunciation, and we do not look to etymology for their present meanings. If I should call a man...him that one of the words originally signified only a lad or servant, and the other an under-plowman, or the inhabitant of a village. It is from present... | |
 | Charles Hall Grandgent - 1928 - 242 páginas
...change their meanings, as well as their spelling and pronunciation; and we do not look to etymology for their present meanings. If I should call a man...him, that one of the words originally signified only a lad or servant; and the other, an under plowman, or the inhabitant of a village. It is from present... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 páginas
...change their meanings, as well as their spelling and pronunciation, and we do not look to etymology for their present meanings. If I should call a man...him that one of the words originally signified only a lad or servant, and the other an under-plowman, or the inhabitant of a village. It is from present... | |
 | 1877 - 404 páginas
...as their spellings and pronounciations, and -we do not look to etymology for their present meaning. If I should call a man a knave and a villain, he would...him, that one of the words originally signified only a lad or servant, and the other an under ploughman, or the inhabitant of a village. It is by their... | |
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Etymologies are at present very uncertain; but such as they are, the old books would still preserve them, and etymologists would there find them. Words in the course of time change their meanings, as well as their spelling and pronunciation, and we do... 
