The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 7
... reason why these analogies do not hold more completely than they do . In process of time new principles of word - forming are admitted , new words and new forms overgrow and supersede the old ; even the old words con- form more or less ...
... reason why these analogies do not hold more completely than they do . In process of time new principles of word - forming are admitted , new words and new forms overgrow and supersede the old ; even the old words con- form more or less ...
Pagina 20
... are still living on among us in the popular names of wild plants . The cockle of our corn - fields has been with great reason attributed to the Britons . The Saxon form is coccel , 20 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
... are still living on among us in the popular names of wild plants . The cockle of our corn - fields has been with great reason attributed to the Britons . The Saxon form is coccel , 20 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
Pagina 25
... reasons why he had often given copies of translations to folk that were no scholars , and many of them priests too . One of his most interesting chapters is that in which he gives the traditional story of the vernacular poet Cædmon ...
... reasons why he had often given copies of translations to folk that were no scholars , and many of them priests too . One of his most interesting chapters is that in which he gives the traditional story of the vernacular poet Cædmon ...
Pagina 35
... reason it is the more necessary to call attention to the change that has really passed over them . There are others , on the contrary , which have long been obsolete and forgotten , for which new words have been long ago substituted ...
... reason it is the more necessary to call attention to the change that has really passed over them . There are others , on the contrary , which have long been obsolete and forgotten , for which new words have been long ago substituted ...
Pagina 54
... as if without control of reason or of religion ; men hotly pursued after the objects of their ambition , covet- ousness , or other passions , till they grew insensible 54 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . Triumph of French.
... as if without control of reason or of religion ; men hotly pursued after the objects of their ambition , covet- ousness , or other passions , till they grew insensible 54 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . Triumph of French.
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