The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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... familiar ground up to philological principles . It was assumed at starting that the English language would furnish examples of all that is most typical in human speech , and it has been the reward of the labourer in this instance that ...
... familiar ground up to philological principles . It was assumed at starting that the English language would furnish examples of all that is most typical in human speech , and it has been the reward of the labourer in this instance that ...
Pagina 3
... familiar with the twofold divi- sion of the mute consonants into lip , tooth , and throat consonants in the one direction ; and into thin , middle , and aspirate consonants in the other direction . If not , he should learn this little ...
... familiar with the twofold divi- sion of the mute consonants into lip , tooth , and throat consonants in the one direction ; and into thin , middle , and aspirate consonants in the other direction . If not , he should learn this little ...
Pagina 44
... familiar to either party . Just as on the frontier of the English and Welsh now , there is a large number of people who have a practical acquaintance with both languages , while they can talk in one only . This it is which has brought ...
... familiar to either party . Just as on the frontier of the English and Welsh now , there is a large number of people who have a practical acquaintance with both languages , while they can talk in one only . This it is which has brought ...
Pagina 77
... familiar sound to hear Chaucer called the well of English undefiled . But this expression never had any other meaning than that Chaucer's language was free from those foreign materials which got into the English of some cen- turies ...
... familiar sound to hear Chaucer called the well of English undefiled . But this expression never had any other meaning than that Chaucer's language was free from those foreign materials which got into the English of some cen- turies ...
Pagina 83
... familiar and thoroughly English expression to boot ? We know of a ' boot ' or ' bote ' which is thoroughly English from the Saxon verb betan , to mend or better a thing . The fishermen of Yarmouth have sometimes astonished the learned ...
... familiar and thoroughly English expression to boot ? We know of a ' boot ' or ' bote ' which is thoroughly English from the Saxon verb betan , to mend or better a thing . The fishermen of Yarmouth have sometimes astonished the learned ...
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