The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 17
... Anglian ; and they also comprise the united nation under the compound term Anglo - Saxon . As expressive of the dominant power , it is not very irregular to call the whole nation briefly SAXON . We have no contemporary account of the ...
... Anglian ; and they also comprise the united nation under the compound term Anglo - Saxon . As expressive of the dominant power , it is not very irregular to call the whole nation briefly SAXON . We have no contemporary account of the ...
Pagina 24
... Anglian kingdom of Northumbria exhibited the first mature example of a Christian nation in Saxondom . Intimately connected with this , if not absolutely rising out of it , is the supremacy of position and influence which the northern ...
... Anglian kingdom of Northumbria exhibited the first mature example of a Christian nation in Saxondom . Intimately connected with this , if not absolutely rising out of it , is the supremacy of position and influence which the northern ...
Pagina 25
... Anglian vernacular literature should have perished in the ravages of the Danes upon the Northumbrian mona- steries . Of the existence of such a native literature there is no room for doubt . Bæda tells us of such ; and he himself was ...
... Anglian vernacular literature should have perished in the ravages of the Danes upon the Northumbrian mona- steries . Of the existence of such a native literature there is no room for doubt . Bæda tells us of such ; and he himself was ...
Pagina 26
... elevate the genius of their language . Such was the Anglian kingdom of - Northumbria , and here it was that our language first received high cultivation . It is remarkable that , while the peoples of the 26 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
... elevate the genius of their language . Such was the Anglian kingdom of - Northumbria , and here it was that our language first received high cultivation . It is remarkable that , while the peoples of the 26 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
Pagina 27
... Anglian dialect of Northum- bria . All this vernacular literature perished under the ravages of the Danes in the ninth century : but not until the torch of learning had been kindled in some of the southern parts , enough to secure its ...
... Anglian dialect of Northum- bria . All this vernacular literature perished under the ravages of the Danes in the ninth century : but not until the torch of learning had been kindled in some of the southern parts , enough to secure its ...
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