The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 8
John Earle. The possession of a form for the passive is hardly less remarkable , when we consider that of all the Gothic family of languages it is the Scandinavian group alone that has made any approach to it . The Gothic languages in ...
John Earle. The possession of a form for the passive is hardly less remarkable , when we consider that of all the Gothic family of languages it is the Scandinavian group alone that has made any approach to it . The Gothic languages in ...
Pagina 11
... less perfect than it is , but for the material which has been supplied by means of Christianity . To this cause we trace the preservation of the oldest literary records of our family of languages . In the fourth century Scripture was ...
... less perfect than it is , but for the material which has been supplied by means of Christianity . To this cause we trace the preservation of the oldest literary records of our family of languages . In the fourth century Scripture was ...
Pagina 21
... less common to the cognate languages . This is not the case with the coccel . Other plant - names may be added which are probably British , as willow . This may well be traced to the Welsh helig as its nearer relative , without ...
... less common to the cognate languages . This is not the case with the coccel . Other plant - names may be added which are probably British , as willow . This may well be traced to the Welsh helig as its nearer relative , without ...
Pagina 32
... less degree , was the Anglo- Saxon before the Conquest . The following piece may serve to illustrate the Saxon inflections : - Upahafenum eagum on pa heah- nysse and apenedum earmum ongan gebiddan mid þæra welera styrung- um on ...
... less degree , was the Anglo- Saxon before the Conquest . The following piece may serve to illustrate the Saxon inflections : - Upahafenum eagum on pa heah- nysse and apenedum earmum ongan gebiddan mid þæra welera styrung- um on ...
Pagina 33
... less moveable in proportion as they lay farther from , or nearer to that pole or pivot of revolution . Accordingly , we see words like man , word , thing , can , smith , heap , on , an , which seem like permanent fixtures through the ...
... less moveable in proportion as they lay farther from , or nearer to that pole or pivot of revolution . Accordingly , we see words like man , word , thing , can , smith , heap , on , an , which seem like permanent fixtures through the ...
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