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 ... written history of our English language within this island for the space of twelve hundred years . Christianity was ...
... writing . Literary culture has been transplanted from the old into the midst of the young and rising peoples of the ... written history of our English language within this island for the space of twelve hundred years . Christianity was ...
Pagina 12
... written record . Thus it was that in the fourth century the Goths on the Danube were converted to Christianity ; and we have much of the New Testament still remaining to us , which was then rendered into the Gothic dialect . This is the ...
... written record . Thus it was that in the fourth century the Goths on the Danube were converted to Christianity ; and we have much of the New Testament still remaining to us , which was then rendered into the Gothic dialect . This is the ...
Pagina 15
... written , to prove that we are Scandinavians , and to draw us over the middle border . But it generally resolves itself into a number of points of similarity rather than into an essential and ancient similitude . Words and names are ...
... written , to prove that we are Scandinavians , and to draw us over the middle border . But it generally resolves itself into a number of points of similarity rather than into an essential and ancient similitude . Words and names are ...
Pagina 27
... written in the Anglian dialect of Northum- bria . All this vernacular literature perished under the ravages of the Danes in the ninth century : but not until the torch of learning had been kindled in some of the southern parts , enough ...
... written in the Anglian dialect of Northum- bria . All this vernacular literature perished under the ravages of the Danes in the ninth century : but not until the torch of learning had been kindled in some of the southern parts , enough ...
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