The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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... natural place assigned to it , according to the order , relation , and proportion dictated by the nature of language . What the nature of language is , can be ascer- tained only by a wide comparison of languages taken at various stages ...
... natural place assigned to it , according to the order , relation , and proportion dictated by the nature of language . What the nature of language is , can be ascer- tained only by a wide comparison of languages taken at various stages ...
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... nature of the thing . When a Welshman speaks English in Shakspeare he often substitutes P for B , as Fluellen in Henry V. act v . sc . 1 : ' pragging knave , Pistoll , which you and your self and all the world know to be no petter than ...
... nature of the thing . When a Welshman speaks English in Shakspeare he often substitutes P for B , as Fluellen in Henry V. act v . sc . 1 : ' pragging knave , Pistoll , which you and your self and all the world know to be no petter than ...
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... nature of the thing ; and a little reflection will make it clear how strong an evidence of primæval relationship ... natural literary efforts they could barely have recorded a name on a tomb - stone . In the seventh century Anglo - Saxon ...
... nature of the thing ; and a little reflection will make it clear how strong an evidence of primæval relationship ... natural literary efforts they could barely have recorded a name on a tomb - stone . In the seventh century Anglo - Saxon ...
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... nature it is to promote all things that enrich the life of man , and to animate with worthy objects every one of his faculties . Professory Max Müller has declared how greatly philology is indebted to Christianity ; and he has testified ...
... nature it is to promote all things that enrich the life of man , and to animate with worthy objects every one of his faculties . Professory Max Müller has declared how greatly philology is indebted to Christianity ; and he has testified ...
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John Earle. The Low Dutch family of languages falls into two natural divisions , the Southern or Teutonic Platt - Deutsch , and the Northern or Scandinavian . It was at the point of junction between these halves - at the neck of the ...
John Earle. The Low Dutch family of languages falls into two natural divisions , the Southern or Teutonic Platt - Deutsch , and the Northern or Scandinavian . It was at the point of junction between these halves - at the neck of the ...
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