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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...WITH HIS OWN BREAD AND BUTTER; to outrage his patron (benefactor); seems, toe qua& Telle; wijs hie's houw"n bereed; end bot t'eer; q-. e. have done with all bad languages, show that respect h... More

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...WITH HIS OWN BREAD AND BUTTER; to outrage his patron (benefactor); seems, toe qua& Telle; wijs hie's houw"n bereed; end bot t'eer; q-. e. have done with all bad languages, show that respect has taken its place in you, have done with the part of the fool, have done for good and all; and thus as a wholesome advice to some display of thoughtless intemperance of speech towards one on whom the other depended for his bread. Toe, done with, ended; quae, kwae, kwaed, quaed, bad; relle, the part. pres. of reWen, to'fail at, to abuse, to rattle away; toys, show, demonstrate; hie, here; 's, is; houw, respect; '�, in; bereed, bereyd, ready, prepared; end, finish; bot, fool, blockhead; t'ecr, from henceforward. The expression is homely, but well-known to all classes with us; in literal import nonsense. The dutch term for bread and butter is boter-am (ham); also boterbrood. Hereed, sounds bread; end, and. Butt, as in the expression he was the butt of the company, the fool or jest of the rest is, I suspect the above bot (fool) object of fun, ridicule. Dormer; the ellipsis of dormer-window, as the window above the other, the toy window or range of upper windows; seems, d'hooer me'r; q. e. the higher of the others there; the upper of those that are there in the same building (front); and thus the upper windows of all in a house; hooer, higher, upper, the comparative of hoa, hoogh; m.' mee,mede, with; V, er, there. Bailey has the word, but no etymology; Johnson confounds it with dormant; and has also made a like mistake in regard to Dormouse; which he says is as dornAo, I sleep, and mouse; and what mouse does not? The word seems to be as, die hoore mos; q. e. for this moss is required; in reference to its nest or dwelling. The dormouse, is of the squirrel, not ...

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