Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1860-09-14

/ his bewildermcnt and surprise, found with
in his account fully drawn out, and re-
ceipted with the signature of Harvey
Green. Below the receipt was written
Ia stand rcbuked. I must forgive, if
hope to be forgiven"
1t was with great difficulty that vii
kins could restrain a gush of tears, Sc
great was his instant rcvulsion of feeling
| All, if Harvey Green could have seen his
heart at that moment, his debt would
have been paid fourtold. No amount Of
money poured into his Golfers could hav,
produced such a feeling of heavenly dc.
light.
| DIcTloSARI --ErRotENS CarIcIsSs.-Tht
New York World Of the l4th inst, in an ar
tielc on the The Two Dictionaries" contains
the following on Worccstcr's Etmologies -
. 1t happens that we have at hand the de.
liberatc Judgment of u Eurpcan scholar, who
has gwen several years to genealogical re-
searches, and had lately fallen in with Wor
ccstcr's dictionary. 1t was rent, unsolicited
to u literary friend. He writes thus =
=" have had this work the dictionary OF
! Mr. Worcester upon my table for some days
ptst In etymosoSy. there is not tho
least progress TO be perceived It occupies
altogether the standpoint OF Skinner, Juni-
IA, johnson, Richardson, Horne, Tooke, and
others. Nay, it is often inferior to any oil
these, since from its absolute dependence up
on them, and its own lack oforginalty and
sclf-dependance, it frequently makes inapt
citations from them In fact it has not the
the smallest appreciation OF the necessities
and demands ui the pr sent day Hence the
book swarms with the most garng and Of
lensiye errors. Nearly every article discovers
more OF less d Incorreetncss, ,misapprebension
or inaptitUde. Every thing is based not upon
principle AMI order, but upon mere sound,
aud outward, yet often quite remote, resem-
bhur1. and 80 hetcrOgeneously mixed up,
the cusuatr with the unrelated, the near
with tie distant. that even with the derlva-
tpu it is in IA measure correct, neither Sc
1urncc nor sound render the fact apparent to
one uulrarncd in such matters. How can
such an one, for instance, comprehend that
tile English. grorsc is derived from the An
slo-:StXun d9rISaa, Il word of, at best, but re-
mote affinity with it, and when, too, no men
ton is made OF the nearer q rman word
grqusfa? W Nhen Il number OF cognate words
are cited by Worcester, their order is usu-
ally inverted. That which comes alter
should have been placed before, ana rice rer-
sa 50, too, he omits or inserts mere whm.
Does IL word. for instance, occur in Spanish
and Italian both, he will cite the Spanish on
ly. or the Italian only, giving no reason for
MS choice lie has Spanish gratuiac'on. but
not Italian .grqtn'd:ione Spanish grakuldio-
20. but not the Italian form. Nor are there
wautln. serious errors with regard to the
orthocpy of primiliyes fox instance, Spanish
gr4gidad instead Of 1raeedad, an error, by
tile way, into which an unskilod person
would naturally fall Has he accidently hit
upon the right derivation, ,he obScures it by So
much that is Incorrect, that the onlearned
cannot ret mt the truth For instance, un-
der grasp. he seems to have correctly judged
it t1lly, with johnson and Webster, to de
rive the word from ROrherc cfisting ltal-
ian form. groSparc hy some happy guess he
has pronounced 1t possible inversion Of the
Low Dutch word familiar To German schol-
ars. viz: QrqpScn. But what does he now
do? Instead Of putting this word foremost.
he riv,s :he first place with utter inappro-
priatencss, to the Italian 9rGppefe, Il word
itself derived, as is !gfePsee, from the same
Old German word graPpca, which Is as 1t II
son Of the same father could have bhgot-
ton his brother. Every one must now at
nnro perceive that grasp Is not II mcrc ltdl-
ian word but that 1t can he Of German or
Igin only aud every one, in view OF Nor
ccstcr's derivation, will be disposed 10 ask
with amazement, " Whence comes the s in
grGSp May IL person, without authority,
md at his own pleasure, either insert or re-
-.
.rror in the word before grapsca what !ocs
he rive after il? The German grcisea.-
Here is a twofold error, one of orth9py, and
the other OF sisnllication. (D greisen
is mistake, or, possibly, misprint
for grdfh; and (2) grGtea, English,
gripe is entirely unconnectcd with gfaPS"H,
graJgare, and grasp; gratea, English grippe,
tipthic gretyea, SelayJnie, gfa4ft, isa root
verb wbilc grapp7, is from gr5aPpea, from
tn, Low Datch reppea, High ,ierman rrFeq.
t. smtch away. Is not this utter ignorance
Of ctymo'oGicll principles?
PopsapdS nDo1t ihouNep9s cf Siuii'ar in
sicplc;es n lgit be painted ont, Everything is
in confusion, rs at the tower Babel. " hat,
for instance. has the Italian griVo, French
griS, from oil SAXON and old High German
ms. carlS,. new High German greis, t. de
with Ensli,h geaH Anglo S1xian gsg9, Ger
man. ar4n Both begin with the same let
ters, n, and that is all. while their funde.
mental vowels and terminal sounds are who'll
" diverse. Thus is proved true the saying
the saying Of Wicland, that etymolosy, in
the hand of Il sage, is reyealer OF wcighty
matters, but in the hand OF IL fool, Is chang
ed to corruption and f1lly.
" The word grcase both johnson and
Webster have correctly derived from the
French qlaissc, as evidently would appear on
the first glance " orcester does the same,
but he puts qraisSe in the second place, Civ
in the first place to Greek word, gl7sis,
ointment, (Which is a two-iold error,) and
following with the Gael, creiS, which itself
came originally from the English word in
question. But what, ask, has grito's $50
written by him by way of assimilation. or
with direct intent to deceive, for cirisis,
from ctrio, annoint,) to do with the En-
glsh grease, French grdiSSe, from groS. TAT,
through Latin craSsus? And som innumer-
able nstancies But, again, there are ma
my words from which he makes no attempt
to give the ctymology, and that for the very
good reason that none but the most thorough
going etvmt logIsts are competent to detect
and trace back their descent. Such words
are, TO gore. gre5e, &c. y
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