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Pagina v
It is upon this , which may be called the Elementary method , that the present
manual has been constructed ; the aim of which has been to find a path through
most familiar ground up to philological principles . It was assumed at starting that
the ...
It is upon this , which may be called the Elementary method , that the present
manual has been constructed ; the aim of which has been to find a path through
most familiar ground up to philological principles . It was assumed at starting that
the ...
Pagina 15
Now the company present spoke Frankish , that is to say , Old High Dutch ; and
unless we suppose Rolf to have learnt Englisc , which seems a romantic
hypothesis , we have the interesting testimony that the Franks saw little or no
distinction ...
Now the company present spoke Frankish , that is to say , Old High Dutch ; and
unless we suppose Rolf to have learnt Englisc , which seems a romantic
hypothesis , we have the interesting testimony that the Franks saw little or no
distinction ...
Pagina 33
This then is the chief grammatical feature of the Saxon speech , as seen from our
present point of view , and as contrasted with the present habits of the English
language . But it is not in the scheme of its grammar alone that human speech is
...
This then is the chief grammatical feature of the Saxon speech , as seen from our
present point of view , and as contrasted with the present habits of the English
language . But it is not in the scheme of its grammar alone that human speech is
...
Pagina 36
We find this verb used in Saxon in a manner very like its present employment .
But when we examine into it , we find the sense attached to it was not as now ,
that of possibility , but of knowledge and skill . When a boy in his French
Exercises ...
We find this verb used in Saxon in a manner very like its present employment .
But when we examine into it , we find the sense attached to it was not as now ,
that of possibility , but of knowledge and skill . When a boy in his French
Exercises ...
Pagina 42
In a well - known volume of lectures on the Study of Words , published seventeen
years ago by the present Archbishop of Dublin , the relations between this
intrusive Norman ' and the native speech are given with much felicity of
illustration .
In a well - known volume of lectures on the Study of Words , published seventeen
years ago by the present Archbishop of Dublin , the relations between this
intrusive Norman ' and the native speech are given with much felicity of
illustration .
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