The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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... whole will be deferred until such time as the learner shall have reached them severally by means of facts which lie within his own experience . It is upon this , which may be called the Elementary method , that the present manual has ...
... whole will be deferred until such time as the learner shall have reached them severally by means of facts which lie within his own experience . It is upon this , which may be called the Elementary method , that the present manual has ...
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... whole scheme as de- vised by Grimm , but they contain the more obvious and con- spicuous parts of it . What has been said will shew the nature of the thing ; and a little reflection will make it clear how strong an evidence of primæval ...
... whole scheme as de- vised by Grimm , but they contain the more obvious and con- spicuous parts of it . What has been said will shew the nature of the thing ; and a little reflection will make it clear how strong an evidence of primæval ...
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... whole extent of our insular history , which they would divide into Old English , Middle English , and New English . But on the whole , the terms already in use seem bolder , and more distinct . They enable us to distinguish between ...
... whole extent of our insular history , which they would divide into Old English , Middle English , and New English . But on the whole , the terms already in use seem bolder , and more distinct . They enable us to distinguish between ...
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... whole Anglian vernacular literature should have perished in the ravages of the Danes upon the Northumbrian mona- steries . Of the existence of such a native literature there is no room for doubt . Bæda tells us of such ; and he himself ...
... whole Anglian vernacular literature should have perished in the ravages of the Danes upon the Northumbrian mona- steries . Of the existence of such a native literature there is no room for doubt . Bæda tells us of such ; and he himself ...
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... whole weight of the function falls on the preposition . The inflection then lives on merely as an heir- loom in the language , an ancient fashion , ornamental rather than necessary . At the first great shake which such a language gets ...
... whole weight of the function falls on the preposition . The inflection then lives on merely as an heir- loom in the language , an ancient fashion , ornamental rather than necessary . At the first great shake which such a language gets ...
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