On the Origin and Ramifications of the English Language: Preceded by an Inquiry Into the Primitive Seats, Early Migrations, and Final Settlements of the Principal European Nations (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from On the Origin and Ramifications of the English Language: Preceded by an Inquiry Into the Primitive Seats, Early Migrations, and Final Settlements of the Principal European Nations

The second error, if it did not originate with, has at any rate had currency given to it in England by, Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, the translator of Mallet's Northern Antiquities, who has exerted all his efforts to prove that the Celtic and the Teu tonic are radically different languages. No one doubts the difference between Irish, and Welsh, and German, or English; but that proves nothing with respect to the Celtae and Scythians in the age of Herodotus, or even of J ornandes a thousand years later.

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