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Pagina iv
The other method is by the examination of a single language ; and here the
course of treatment follows the order of natural growth , introducing the principles
in an occasional and incidental manner , just as they happen to be called for in
the ...
The other method is by the examination of a single language ; and here the
course of treatment follows the order of natural growth , introducing the principles
in an occasional and incidental manner , just as they happen to be called for in
the ...
Pagina 19
... to the personal and social comforts of life , were in this manner learnt at
secondhand from Roman culture : as disc , a dish ; from his handing of which a
royal officer all through the Saxon period bore the title of DISC - HEGN , dish -
thane .
... to the personal and social comforts of life , were in this manner learnt at
secondhand from Roman culture : as disc , a dish ; from his handing of which a
royal officer all through the Saxon period bore the title of DISC - HEGN , dish -
thane .
Pagina 20
In like manner of the oldest town - names , and some names of districts . The first
syllable in Winchester appears , through the Latin form of Venta , to have been
the same as the Welsh gwent , a plain or open country . The first syllable in ...
In like manner of the oldest town - names , and some names of districts . The first
syllable in Winchester appears , through the Latin form of Venta , to have been
the same as the Welsh gwent , a plain or open country . The first syllable in ...
Pagina 38
This verb was used in Saxon in a manner very like its present employment . But
when we examine into it , we find the sense attached to it was not , as now , that
of possibility , but of knowledge and skill . When a boy in his French exercises ...
This verb was used in Saxon in a manner very like its present employment . But
when we examine into it , we find the sense attached to it was not , as now , that
of possibility , but of knowledge and skill . When a boy in his French exercises ...
Pagina 54
If we ask what manner of French it was , we must point to that now spoken by the
peasants of Normandy , and perhaps still more to the French dialect which has
been preserved in the Channel Islands . A bold relic of our use of French as the ...
If we ask what manner of French it was , we must point to that now spoken by the
peasants of Normandy , and perhaps still more to the French dialect which has
been preserved in the Channel Islands . A bold relic of our use of French as the ...
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | The Philology of the English Tongue Clarendon Press series |
| Autore | John Earle |
| Edizione | 3 |
| Editore | Clarendon Press, 1880 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | Harvard University |
| Digitalizzato | 6 feb 2009 |
| Lunghezza | 700 pagine |
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