Aus Dem Staat Friedrichs Des Grossen (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Aus Dem Staat Friedrichs Des GrossenAs regards Dr. Freytag's style, it seems peculiarly suited to its subject, being vigorous and terse to a marked degree, yet rising at times to real eloquence, in spite of the studied compression, which may seem at first a little perplexing to the reader. There is only one feature in it to which exception might perhaps be taken, viz., to the frequent use of foreign words. There is no objection of course to words of foreign origin which passed at an early stage into the language of the people, and thus shared in the changes by which Teutonic words have been affected, so that almost all signs of their foreign origin have disappeared, words which may con veniently be called loan-words (see Appendix A). Some of these have become so much part and parcel of the language that they have actually replaced words of Teutonic origin, eg. Whilst English has 'curt' (=lat. Eurtus) by the side of 'short with a difference in meaning, in German furs alone is used as adjective, and the old adjective 'scurz'has disap peared, and is now represented only by its derivatives, Emma, m., Gdfiirae, f., 'apron, ' cf. 'shirt, ' and verb mutant, make short, tuck up, ' ref]. 'gird oneself' again, 'd¿anae, plant, ' has taken the place of films.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.