Lecture on the Study of Anglo-Saxon

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Excerpt from Lecture on the Study of Anglo-Saxon: Read Before the Vice-Chancellor, and Printed at His RequestIt is plain, therefore, that our great Gothic scholars have considered this collective mode of studying the a'nglolsaxon as the best, by furnish ing the student with the elementary means of learning them, joined in one work: from the maeso-gotbic Bickes, Lye, and Junius appear resolved that the student shall not escape, for the Grammar is printed together, and the Gospels occupy the pages of their publication conjoint] y. As 'i have in a former Lecture pointed out the great similarity between the Ulphilan Gothic and English, I shall not here repeat what I have said. 'i then expressed a hope, that the whole of the Bible, translated in the fourth century by Bishop Ulphilas, would in time be discovered, and myt conjecture has partly been confirmed. The Librarian of Milan has discovered the whole of the Epistles of St. Paul, and part of the Old Testament, together with a c0pious Com mentaryu He has also found many other de tached fragments of the language, and I have little doubt that time and research will complete the discovery of the remainder of the translation: and should this happen, the public may congra tulate itself on possessing a written monument of the English language, as old as the fourth cen tury. As this translation, although' it, might have refined and fixed, could 'not altogether have formed, the dialect, we may be enabled, through the possession of this valuable book, to speak with tolerable certainty of our present speech as early as the Christian aera.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.