'dejeuner'; from 'acceptare', 'acheter' and 'accepter'; from
'homo', 'on' and 'homme'; from 'paganus', 'payen' and 'paysan' [the
latter from 'pagensis']; from 'obedientia', 'obeissance' and
'obedience'; from 'strictus', 'etroit' and 'strict'; from
'sacramentum', 'serment' and 'sacrement'; from 'ministerium',
'metier' and 'ministere'; from 'parabola', 'parole' and 'parabole';
from 'peregrinus', 'pelerin' and 'peregrin'; from 'factio', 'facon'
and 'faction', and it has now adopted 'factio' in a third shape,
that is, in our English 'fashion'; from 'pietas', 'pitie' and
'piete'; from 'capitulum', 'chapitre' and 'capitule', a botanical
term. So, too, in Italian, 'manco', maimed, and 'monco', maimed _of
a hand_; 'rifutare', to refute, and 'rifiutare', to refuse; 'dama'
and 'donna', both forms of 'domina'.

{27} See Marsh, _Manual of the English Language_, Engl. Ed. p. 88 _seq._

{28} W. Schlegel (_Indische Bibliothek_, vol. i. p. 284): Coeunt quidem
paullatim in novum corpus peregrina vocabula, sed grammatica
linguarum, unde petitae sunt, ratio perit.

{29} J. Grimm, quoted in _The Philological Museum_ vol. i. p. 667.

{30} _Works_, vol. iv. p. 202.

{31} [These words are taken from the 'Whistlecraft' of John Hookham
Frere:--

"Don't confound the language of the nation
With long-tail'd words in _osity_ and _ation_".

(_Works_, 1872, vol. 1, p. 206).]

{32} _History of Normandy and England_, vol. i, p. 78.

{33} [F. W. Faber,] _Dublin Review_, June, 1853.

{34} There is more on this matter in my book _On the Authorized Version
of the New Testament_, pp. 33-35.

{35} See a paper _On the Probable Future Position of the English
Language_, by T. Watts, Esq., in the _Proceedings of the
Philological Society_, vol. iv, p. 207.

{36} A little more than two centuries ago a poet, himself abundantly
deserving the title of 'well-languaged'; which a cotemporary or
near successor gave him, ventured in some remarkable lines timidly
to anticipate this. Speaking of his native tongue, which he himself
wrote with such vigour and purity, though wanting in the fiery
impulses which go to the making of a first-rate poet, Daniel
exclaims:--

"And who, in time, knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores
Th