The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 8
... earliest literary traces go back to the fourth century , and appear in the villages of Dacia , in lands which slope to the Danube ; where the country is by foreigners called Wallachia . It is from this region that we have the Mosogothic ...
... earliest literary traces go back to the fourth century , and appear in the villages of Dacia , in lands which slope to the Danube ; where the country is by foreigners called Wallachia . It is from this region that we have the Mosogothic ...
Pagina 14
... island for the space of twelve hundred years . Christianity was the cause of its early cultivation ; and this has made it possible for us to follow back the traces of our language 14 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
... island for the space of twelve hundred years . Christianity was the cause of its early cultivation ; and this has made it possible for us to follow back the traces of our language 14 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
Pagina 17
... early period of our history and language and literature , and to reserve the term ' English ' for the later period . There is some degree of literary impropriety in this , because the Saxons called their own language Englisc . On this ...
... early period of our history and language and literature , and to reserve the term ' English ' for the later period . There is some degree of literary impropriety in this , because the Saxons called their own language Englisc . On this ...
Pagina 26
... early leadership which was enjoyed by the kingdom of Northumbria in the seventh and eighth centuries . The office of BRETWALDA , a kind of elective chieftainship of all Britain , was held by several Northumbrian kings in succession ...
... early leadership which was enjoyed by the kingdom of Northumbria in the seventh and eighth centuries . The office of BRETWALDA , a kind of elective chieftainship of all Britain , was held by several Northumbrian kings in succession ...
Pagina 37
... only to handicrafts- men in metals . But in early literature it had its metaphorical applications . Not only do we read of the armourer by the name of wæpna smið , the weapon - smith ; CHARACTERISTICS OF ANGLO - SAXON . 37.
... only to handicrafts- men in metals . But in early literature it had its metaphorical applications . Not only do we read of the armourer by the name of wæpna smið , the weapon - smith ; CHARACTERISTICS OF ANGLO - SAXON . 37.
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