The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 22
... Never say no to a good offer . ' What establishes the British origin of this word is the large connection it has in Welsh , and its appearance also in Brittany . Thus in Welsh there is the diminutive form cydyn , a little pouch , and ...
... Never say no to a good offer . ' What establishes the British origin of this word is the large connection it has in Welsh , and its appearance also in Brittany . Thus in Welsh there is the diminutive form cydyn , a little pouch , and ...
Pagina 23
... never expect to know with anything like precision what were the relations of the British and Saxon languages to each other and to the Latin language , until each has been studied comparatively to a degree of exactness beyond anything ...
... never expect to know with anything like precision what were the relations of the British and Saxon languages to each other and to the Latin language , until each has been studied comparatively to a degree of exactness beyond anything ...
Pagina 27
... never appear in any of their extant literature to call their language Seaxisc , but always ENGLISC1 . The explanation of this must be sought , as I have already indicated , in that early and prolonged leadership which was enjoyed by the ...
... never appear in any of their extant literature to call their language Seaxisc , but always ENGLISC1 . The explanation of this must be sought , as I have already indicated , in that early and prolonged leadership which was enjoyed by the ...
Pagina 29
... never appreciated to how great a power the Latin tongue had attained long before the Augustan era . Great languages are not built in a day . The fact is that Wessex inherited a cultivated language from the north , and that when they ...
... never appreciated to how great a power the Latin tongue had attained long before the Augustan era . Great languages are not built in a day . The fact is that Wessex inherited a cultivated language from the north , and that when they ...
Pagina 45
... never covered so wide an area in this island as it did at the moment when the native speech upreared her head again . to assert a permanent supremacy . As the waters of a river are often shallowest there where they cover the widest area ...
... never covered so wide an area in this island as it did at the moment when the native speech upreared her head again . to assert a permanent supremacy . As the waters of a river are often shallowest there where they cover the widest area ...
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