John Bellenden Ker
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 324
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Excerpt from An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Vol. 2 of 2 Tax him with a designed mis-statement of the fact. Of the etymology of the term Pnov can, I have found no ttace in any work known to me; but take it to be as the Dutch phrase procca werpe (1. E. Experience sends forth proof produces; tried fact produces ascertained truth is the mother, or parent, always implying, of the subject or question in view, when the sentence is used. Thus, a Paovnan is as a sentence grounded in or produced by experience; an expression founded in and approved by proof or trial of the matter in point. Fracco, proof, proof, experience, trial. Werpe, the third person potential mood of women, to produce, to' give birth to, to send forth, to put out or forwards. P and b are well-established intermutating sounds. V and so are a same aspirate, and, when pronounced continuously, ashore, a same sound. F, v, and p, also interchange in use; fife and pipe are a same word, and so are the Dutch viggbo, bigghe, pigghe, and our pig. Er prosce werpe [here experience teams] sounds a proverb [in French proverbe], of which proverbium h the Latinized form. So that if I am right in this view of the word, to develope or account for our proverbs, would be to develope or account for tried truths, truths produced by the general experience of society, consequently well own to all, and thus a task of no great urgency at least, if not a supererogatory concern altogether. It may be observed, that some of the phrases, accounted for in these pages as trav esties are to be bond in equivalent terms in other own? 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.