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On The Study Of Words: Six Lectures Addressed (Originally) To The Pupils At The Diocesan Training School, Winchester - Softcover

Richard Chenevix Trench

 
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On The Study Of Words: Six Lectures Addressed (Originally) To The Pupils At The Diocesan Training School, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench. This work comprises six lectures exploring how words shape thought, culture, and education. Trench argues that language is not only a vehicle for knowledge but a reservoir of moral and historical truth, with words acting as fossil poetry and fossil history. He discusses the origin of language, the role of words in religious and moral life, the way language records social and national change, and how new words arise and old ones shift meaning. The lectures cover topics such as the morality in words, the history in words, the rise of new words, the distinction of words, and the practical application for teachers, particularly schoolmasters, in cultivating linguistic discernment and a national English conscience.

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