A BRIEE FS TORY 
OF CERTAIN 
ANGLO-SAXON ROOTS 
NEARLY OBSOLETE, 
IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 
BY JOHN JUST, Esa. 
(Read April 4th, 1843.) 
Times and seasons, their events and vicissi- 
tudes, have their histories. ‘They are both influ- 
enced by the slow progress of natural processes— 
by the motion of a constant current of events ; 
which had a beginning, which we cannot know, 
and that tends to an end which we cannot foresee ; 
nor foretell the results. From this progression 
nought in creation seems to be free. When we 
talk of stationary, we can only use the term rela- 
tively ; absolute rest is not—cannot be. In this 
onward movement of things—this rising upward 
towards perfection—or sinking downward towards 
destruction and oblivion, words, which are the 
