404 HISTORY OF CERTAIN 
deo” is of similar import; as also “ proficiscor,” 
both containing in composition, a preposition de- 
ducible from the same origin as the root. And 
here we might apply Rask’s rule, and show that 
the Greek « +44.” “oe%u,” and the Latin ‘ perdo,” 
“‘preeda” contain the convertible mutes of the An- 
glo-Saxon “‘fyrd” befure mentioned, and, therefore 
literally express in their primitive meanings si- 
milar ideas. Hence the Grecian Argonautic ex- 
pedition —the Roman border wars with their 
neighbours connected with these words, seem to 
imply, that both these nations in their earliest 
struggles were marauders like Saxons, Danes, 
and Norwegians; and that out of the same ele- 
ments of savage valour, then ill-directed and a 
curse to the nations of the earth—arose by 
proper cultivation, those civilizations which in 
their turns have much more than compensated 
for former injuries, and which show, that the 
moral government of the world, has a beneficial 
tendency through the kind superintendence of 
God’s providence, which always effects ultimate 
good to God’s creatures, out of the elements of 
apparently discordant evils. To pursue the sub- 
ject further at present, however, would not be 
as intended, brief. 
