Excerpt from Origines Patriciae: Or a Deduction of European Titles of Nobility and Dignified Offices From Their Primitive Sources I am not perfectly correct in saying that I was unguided. I had before my eyes the success which attended the investigations of the great continental philologists, one of whom, Professor pott, by tracing European words through various forms up to the Sanskrit cognate or its root, has thrown new and valuable light upon the signification of many vocables that were hitherto doubtful or Obscure. I have combined their processes, and in most cases detected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.