The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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... 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 English language would furnish examples of all that is most ...
... 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 English language would furnish examples of all that is most ...
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... 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 between ...
... 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 between ...
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... 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 subject to change . Each several part of which language is composed has ...
... 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 subject to change . Each several part of which language is composed has ...
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... 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 comes to the sentence ' Can you swim ?? he is ...
... 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 comes to the sentence ' Can you swim ?? he is ...
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... present Archbishop of Dublin , the relations between this intrusive Norman ' and the native speech are given with much felicity of illustration . I have the pleasure of inserting the following passage here with the permission of the ...
... present Archbishop of Dublin , the relations between this intrusive Norman ' and the native speech are given with much felicity of illustration . I have the pleasure of inserting the following passage here with the permission of the ...
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