Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863. Various

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have the force of going or passing, equivalent to 'fare' in 'farewell,' or 'welfare,' i. e., may you have a good passage or journey.

      4

      'Past and Present,' pp. 128, 129.

      5

      Compare with this the Latin mundus, which is exactly analogous in signification.

      6

      En-voir.

      7

      Perhaps nothing could better prove how profoundly religious were the Latins than a w

1

This alliance may be fanciful (though we observe some of the best German lexicographers have it so); a better origin might, perhaps, be found in the Sanscrit mri, etc.

2

'Les Orientals,' par Victor Hugo. Le Feu du ciel.

3

The 'by' may, however, have the force of going or passing, equivalent to 'fare' in 'farewell,' or 'welfare,' i. e., may you have a good passage or journey.

4

'Past and Present,' pp. 128, 129.

5

Compare with this the Latin mundus, which is exactly analogous in signification.

6

En-voir.

7

Perhaps nothing could better prove how profoundly religious were the Latins than a word compounded of the above; namely 'profane.' A 'fanatic' was one who devoted himself to the fanum or temple – 'profane' is an object devoted to anything else 'pro'instead of– the 'fanum,' or fane.

8

The word is more properly oriental than Greek, e. g., Hebrew, pardes, and Sanscrit, paradêsa.

9

See the Italian setvaggio and the Spanish salvage, in which a more approximate orthography has been retained.

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