On the Study of Words by Trench

In 1851 Rev Richard Trench established his fame as a philologist by The Study of Words, originally delivered as lectures to the pupils of the Diocesan Training School, Winchester. His stated purpose was to demonstrate that in words, even taken singly, “there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up”—an argument which he supported by a number of apposite illustrations.

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