The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 9
... writing the German word samt over the English word tame : thus { other , may be symbolised by sa m t t a me In this mnemonic , the final e of tame is merely there to make an English word of it , in order to indicate that the symbols T ...
... writing the German word samt over the English word tame : thus { other , may be symbolised by sa m t t a me In this mnemonic , the final e of tame is merely there to make an English word of it , in order to indicate that the symbols T ...
Pagina 11
... writing . Literary culture has been transplanted from the old into the midst of the young and rising peoples of the world , and hence it has come to pass that among the nations which have sprung into existence since Christianity , a ...
... writing . Literary culture has been transplanted from the old into the midst of the young and rising peoples of the world , and hence it has come to pass that among the nations which have sprung into existence since Christianity , a ...
Pagina 29
... writing . It has not been sufficiently con- sidered that such translations are dependent on the pre- vious exercise of the native tongue , and that foreign help can only bring up a wild language to eloquence by very slow degrees . There ...
... writing . It has not been sufficiently con- sidered that such translations are dependent on the pre- vious exercise of the native tongue , and that foreign help can only bring up a wild language to eloquence by very slow degrees . There ...
Pagina 35
... writers who have not felt the awkwardness resulting from our loss of this most regrettable old pronoun . There is not one of the great languages which labours under a like inability . So far about the word man , which is an example of ...
... writers who have not felt the awkwardness resulting from our loss of this most regrettable old pronoun . There is not one of the great languages which labours under a like inability . So far about the word man , which is an example of ...
Pagina 38
... writer is aided by the studies of the reader . It would be vain to assume an English public to be acquainted with the elder form of their mother tongue ; and therefore we are limited to such illustrations as may be understood with only ...
... writer is aided by the studies of the reader . It would be vain to assume an English public to be acquainted with the elder form of their mother tongue ; and therefore we are limited to such illustrations as may be understood with only ...
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