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UIST, NORTH AND SOUTH, islands of the outer Hebrides, Inverness-shire, Scotland. North Uist lies S.W. of Harris (Long Island), from which it is separated about 8 m. by the Sound of Harris. The island measures 14 m. in length by 16 m. in greatest width, but the ...

... e not entirely controlled it. The alleged racial divergence is, too, only a linguistic hypothesis on the physical evidence of which anthropologists are not agreed (Topinard, Anlhropologie, p. 444; Taylor, Origins of Aryans, cap. i.), and, even if it were prove ...

... of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar." From the popularity of Max Miiller's works on comparative philology this is the use of the word which ...

... oyola (1613) and the Virgin Mary (1618); but he is best known as a writer on casuistry. His principal works belong to the fields of exegesis and moral theology. Of the latter the best known are Summtda casuum conscientiae (1627); Liber theologiae moralis (1644 ...

... while it is clear that such evidence as has been obtained by epigraphic and linguistic research is not in any sense hostile but distinctly favourable to the tradition of their origin which they themselves must have maintained. AUTHORITIES. — Beside those menti ...

... r. eru/xos, true, andXo7<w, account), that part or branch of the science of linguistics which deals with the origin or derivation of words. The Greek word eru/tos, in so far as it was applied to words, referred to the real underlying meaning rather than to the ...

... relative importance of the peoples of "*"«*•• Europe than a survey of their linguistic differences and affinities.5 The following table contains the names of the various languages which are still spoken on the continent, as. well as of those which, though now ...

... ring to Christian Ethics, alongside of Dogmatics or of all-inclusive Summae. Casuistry (with parallels in early Protestantism like Jeremy Taylor's Duclor Dubilantium), growing out of the Confessional, is characteristic of this Roman Catholic Ethic; yet the stu ...

... e way at Miyana on the 28th of November 1667. Thfivenot was an accomplished linguist, skilled in Turkish, Arabic and Persian, and a curious and diligent observer. He was also well skilled in the natural sciences, especially in botany, for which he made large c ...

... Constantinople, where he published a Turkish-German Dictionary and various linguistic works, and where he acquired some twenty Oriental languages and dialects, he visited Teheran; and then, disguised as a dervish, joined a band of pilgrims from Mecca, and spe ...

... tract their attention from the speaker. " Thus," says Huxley, " if the ventriloquist desire VENTIMIGLIA— VENUE to create the belief that a voice issues from the bowels of the earth, he imitates, with great accuracy, the tones of such a half -stifled voice, and ...