ON THE 
ANALOGIES AND AFFINITIES 
BETWEEN THE 
ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGES 
OF THE 
SOUTH OF EUROPE 
AND 
feos COE ae. “NOR car. 
BY F. E. VEMBERGUE. 
(Read the 4th of February, 1845.) 
The mathematician who has just solved some 
difficult problem, the chemist who has just dis- 
covered some new property of matter, can alone 
have an idea of the delight felt by the ethnogra- 
pher or the etymologist, when he finds out some 
new analogy between one language and another. 
Discoveries may be more or less useful, more 
or less susceptible of extending the boundaries of 
human knowledge; but there is no doubt that 
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