 | Isaac Taylor - 1864 - 624 pages
...the title of this volume, and throughout the preceding chapters. This axiom asserts that local names are in no case arbitrary sounds. They are always ancient...constituting the earliest chapter in the local history of the PLACES to which they severally refer. Assuming, therefore, as an axiom, the significancy of local... | |
 | 1896 - 276 pages
...BISHOP'S STORTFORD. BY UB CHISENHALE-MARSH. " T OCAL names," Taylor tells us in his Words and Places, " are *.•' always ancient words, or fragments of ancient words, each of them constituting the earliest chapter in the local history of the places to which they severally refer."... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1893 - 450 pages
...axiom which alone makes the study of local names possible, and this axiom asserts that local names are in no case arbitrary sounds. They are always ancient...constituting the earliest chapter in the local history of the PLACES to which they severally refer. " Assuming therefore as axiomatic the significancy of local... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1893 - 400 pages
...the title of this volume, and throughout the preceding chapters. This axiom asserts that local names are in no case arbitrary sounds. They are always ancient WORDS, or fragments of ancient words—each of them, in short, constituting the earliest chapter in the local history of the PLACES... | |
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... the investigation of the meaning of ancient names. The fundamental principle to be borne in mind is an axiom which alone makes the study of local names possible, and which has been tacitly assumed in the title of this volume, and throughout the preceding... 