Download or read book An Essay on the Archæology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by John Bellenden Ker and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Vol. 1 of 2 Verzelvight zich de geest en het lichaamlijke der spraak, gelijk die van de menschelijkheid in onse. Bilderdijk. The morat and physical principle of language is incorporated like that of humanity in ourselves [like our own nature in us]. Het is uit het hart dat men spreekt, en nicht uit het hoofd, of men spreekt slechts na. Bilderdijk. It is from the heart we speak, and not from the head, or else we speak after others [what we have learnt from others, and so, like parrots]. Niets taal verwoestender, niets verderflijker voor den mensch kan zijn, dan de taal-zelve, die in de nitspraak hestaat en in geeoe letterteekenen, naar einige ingevoerde of aangenomen spelling te willen richten. De regel der spelllng is een: "Spel gelijk gij spreekt," en het was voor eene beneden het beestelijke afgezonken domheid bewaard, dit om te keeren en de spelling tot regel der uit spraak te nemen. Bilderdijk. Nothing more destructive to the true nature of language, nothing more pernicious to that characteristic distinction of mankind, than to think to regulate our speech (which consists in its utterance, and in no contrivance of letter) according to any artificially intruded and presumptive form of spelling. There is but one rule for spelling: "Spell as you speak;" and it remained for a degree of stupidity, below even that of the beast of the field, to reverse this rule and to take spelling for the standard of our utterance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."