New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-27
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WaNnty WoRSINe. DEoEMBER y, 1858.
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1nllsetsa Languages vs.. oars' ,,.,.,...
Wehass netesoE9iS 4eosee 'A9A sssele " sis eAi9'
intefmina6e series q lectures on the Englsn ian
guage whion hon hr. hsfsn mas been ior tne pas
month engaged ~ delivering 10 new 4ork. ~ ~
fourteenth lecture he TOOK up me y .n
advantages and disadvantages Of our language Wisl
regard 70 infection. Eo the advantages resulting ito
cur method of construction by the position Oh WORDS
sud not BY thern6eetions, be gave the same prepoa
derating weight which our learned ana eioqueh'
townsman Dr. Palmer, did in his recent lecture before
che Lyceum, on the Claims Of the English Ian
gUage. In Latin only the educated man could speak
WITH grammatical correctness, while in English nc
man could well make mistake 70 position q Wofas
Reference ismade, Of course, 70 those WIN whom ths
one language was ana the other s, native Winnie the
English is not behind any Of the languages 10 den,
neness Of expression, il lacks one advantage which
win readily be understood by the casscaly learned OF
our readers and hsis the choice Of position Of words
which Is afforded BY The infection system The in.
acsions Of nomnative, verb and objective indicated
the connection and sense whatever the position of the
words III tie expression But this is a small advan
tage indeed compared with those resulting from The
straightforward simple and natural construction O
English. These are for everybodys beneft-that fol
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MAI FgIustrfous Bemgar.
Nj de Iamartine, the poet millionaire and mendi
can't at one and the same time, the other day stood
fol two hours before the Committee of Relief Especial
meeting Of which had been convened to hear his plea,
and explained the state of his finances He said that
he had been villiBed in the Of his debts which
we're hut 100000 francs when he first began to beg
yearago Within the year he had sacrificed bis own
funds 10 the amount Of 100000 francs in paying his
Indebtedness and that but 00O francs remained
to be paid. We join the Paris correspondent who
tells The story in asking what is 70 be thought Of
man Who can pay on Sl80,O 600 IN one year and yet
goes alleging for money Weare afraid that Lam
aHtine ought e be abused.
Those savants OF the Day,
Whose literary mission Y y % demonstrate the un'
reality q characters Who nave been accepted as his
sorcal and allow them only mythical ailegorcal
existence are dong some good IN WlnnoWlng out
ut from among the dIcta Of mere tradition, or from
Che mnsty records Of the dark and ante-dark ages
Bat ~ Il Y thelr object to subvert what was pre-.
viousy received as act, and not to substantate any
shng 90 II is their delight to annihiate If possible
some old author q hero BY accommodating testimony
that he was but creature Of Imagination, incarnated
y the errors Of time, tradition and Ignorance Their
warfare i against the ancient dead, Or as they say,
against the ancients who never lived, and in prose.
cutting II they 80 70 the opposite extreme, eagerly
sewing Is proof any evidence which their research
u speculation may YIELD while they subject all oppo-
sing testimony to the ereest ordeal Of scrutiny, and
refuse 70 accept il though upheld by hundred times
the evidence and probability which they would coR-
sldaF sufficient to suhstantate their own view Of the
case 20, i is seem the dead men have very slim
chance with their judges.
These learned Thebans," not satisfied with ez-
fngnishing old Homer and knocking the siege of Troy
unto nothingness by declaring both author and Incl
dent mythical, make yet holder assault on general
belief, and attack the history OF peoples by cooly
killing oif Hengist and Horsa, those yeneratsd fbust
es Of the fifth century, who saw that Britain was too
good fors savage posaessors, and 50 went and took
NJ lof themselves ana saxon followers ana thus pian
cd there the sterling sub-stratum Of this imperial
Auglo-saxon race, which is now overranning the
world. The mythologist who wipes cut Hengist and
Horsai and who ID . DID. Of Cambridge, does it in
this wise { Hengist is high German for horse,
and Z Horsa is low German Tor the same word the
white horse was the ensign Of the invading Saxons,
and 50 The name Of tho standard, as spoken IN both
dialects, came to designate Two ancient gentlemen
Wao never mad existence.
a As9huOh correspondent LOT Al american paper,
III eontrovertng this cogitation of the learned man.
submits little evidence IN favor Of the popular sup
position that Messrs Hengist and Horsa did exist
such as the facts Of Hengst having been treated Of
by many historians as the founder Of the ancient
Kingdom Of Kent one Of these chroniclers being old
William Of MalmesbuFy the fact of the years Of the
deaths ct both Of them being known by indubable
cords the fact that the posterty of Hengst can be
and Horsa may each mean horse,1 but there
was no law in the fth century any more than in the
uinateenth aoninst man hearing the name of an ami
81 ~ os,,..,it r. MI, il, T4 ;fi+iat 49, i,1..t
49, ~ y = ny = = : is 20 NV Juss H i'Asy
ahastle Rgafe OF q morse was assumed by the broth
ers Of the name as their seal and ensign as that the
aYsign aiould become eshfed and yitazed into two
49,
HAae American BonRparte.
Itwoud eeem that Napoleon is not particularly
fond Of hjsa American cousin y Captain Bopanarte of
8sit;r,og. M ,;tb III. ,,egaraI5io f.tl,a.
Bouaparte, Esq, Of Baltimore, recently made visit
10 Paris which extended over period of six months
and during ali that time they were unable to Obtain
~, ,3aws{a. ;.I, ttoi s;,,,,o.f,1 ,I,t;, 5,,t;.
s9s Y" "st. .ss0As as SA4eA ts4'''i3S 9alA"'n
D9haEatte ehIe.ea the fFeheh army as lieutenant
and has hppn all thie tiKna