The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 25
... thought throughout that Empire . The extant works of Będa are all in Latin , but they afford occasional glimpses of information about the spoken Englisc of his day . As for example , in the Epistola ad Ecgberhtum , he advises that ...
... thought throughout that Empire . The extant works of Będa are all in Latin , but they afford occasional glimpses of information about the spoken Englisc of his day . As for example , in the Epistola ad Ecgberhtum , he advises that ...
Pagina 57
... thought to some of those exalted aims for which men have hazarded their lives . Another word may be cited , which belonged originally to the same ill- conditioned strain , but which time has purified and con- verted into a picturesque ...
... thought to some of those exalted aims for which men have hazarded their lives . Another word may be cited , which belonged originally to the same ill- conditioned strain , but which time has purified and con- verted into a picturesque ...
Pagina 59
... thought I wrung , and bare it to drink to Pharoah ( I dreamed ) as I was wont to do . At the end of his version of Genesis he alludes to himself and his work : God schilde hise sowle fro helle bale de made it dus on Engel tale ! God ...
... thought I wrung , and bare it to drink to Pharoah ( I dreamed ) as I was wont to do . At the end of his version of Genesis he alludes to himself and his work : God schilde hise sowle fro helle bale de made it dus on Engel tale ! God ...
Pagina 65
... thought to have said a good and memorable thing when he gave as his reason for preferring one man to a farm rather than another , that his man could not speak French . The French which was spoken in this country had acquired an insular ...
... thought to have said a good and memorable thing when he gave as his reason for preferring one man to a farm rather than another , that his man could not speak French . The French which was spoken in this country had acquired an insular ...
Pagina 91
... thought of the language . There is in Yorkshire , and perhaps over the north of England generally , a use of the conjunction while which is very different from that of Queen's English . In the latter speech while is equivalent to during ...
... thought of the language . There is in Yorkshire , and perhaps over the north of England generally , a use of the conjunction while which is very different from that of Queen's English . In the latter speech while is equivalent to during ...
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