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Pagina 3
The same word ( probably ) passing with an early migration westward is found in
the Dartmoor Tors . It is to this sort of play upon the gamut or scale of consonants
, a play which is kept up between kindred dialects , that Grimm , when he had ...
The same word ( probably ) passing with an early migration westward is found in
the Dartmoor Tors . It is to this sort of play upon the gamut or scale of consonants
, a play which is kept up between kindred dialects , that Grimm , when he had ...
Pagina 4
Thus the Greek B and Latin B should answer to our English P. In proof of this we
may perhaps cite Búbos and pit , properly pyt : but here we must pass into
another group of consonants to find suitable illustrations , as our early language
was ...
Thus the Greek B and Latin B should answer to our English P. In proof of this we
may perhaps cite Búbos and pit , properly pyt : but here we must pass into
another group of consonants to find suitable illustrations , as our early language
was ...
Pagina 6
Their 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 now
called Wallachia . It is from this region that we have the Moso - Gothic Gospels
and ...
Their 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 now
called Wallachia . It is from this region that we have the Moso - Gothic Gospels
and ...
Pagina 11
Hence the striking fact that we can trace the written history of our English
language within this island for the space of twelve hundred years . Christianity
was the cause of its early cultivation ; and this has made it possible for OF THE
ENGLISH ...
Hence the striking fact that we can trace the written history of our English
language within this island for the space of twelve hundred years . Christianity
was the cause of its early cultivation ; and this has made it possible for OF THE
ENGLISH ...
Pagina 12
early cultivation ; and this has made it possible for us to follow back the traces of
our language into a far higher relative antiquity than that in which the languages
of Greece and Rome first begin to emerge into historic view . This has been very
...
early cultivation ; and this has made it possible for us to follow back the traces of
our language into a far higher relative antiquity than that in which the languages
of Greece and Rome first begin to emerge into historic view . This has been very
...
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