The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... passing with an early migration westward is found in the Dartmoor Tors . It is to this sort of play upon the gamut or scale of consonants , a play which is kept up between kindred dialects , that Grimm , when he had reduced it to a sort ...
... passing with an early migration westward is found in the Dartmoor Tors . It is to this sort of play upon the gamut or scale of consonants , a play which is kept up between kindred dialects , that Grimm , when he had reduced it to a sort ...
Pagina 25
... passed next to the land , and afterwards to the inhabitants of the land . And now , as in the early time , though it does not designate the British Empire , yet it does designate the lan- guage which is the common vehicle of thought ...
... passed next to the land , and afterwards to the inhabitants of the land . And now , as in the early time , though it does not designate the British Empire , yet it does designate the lan- guage which is the common vehicle of thought ...
Pagina 34
... passed away , and instead of it we find the expression to be buxom , and this yielded to the modern verb to obey . The Saxon lictun was the medieval litten , and the modern churchyard . In this class of instances the change is ...
... passed away , and instead of it we find the expression to be buxom , and this yielded to the modern verb to obey . The Saxon lictun was the medieval litten , and the modern churchyard . In this class of instances the change is ...
Pagina 54
... passed . We approach a kind of dawn . A new literature begins to rise , first in dissonant dialects , and then in a central and standard form . The language had admitted a variety of new material which had distinctly affected its ...
... passed . We approach a kind of dawn . A new literature begins to rise , first in dissonant dialects , and then in a central and standard form . The language had admitted a variety of new material which had distinctly affected its ...
Pagina 55
... passed into an epithet , went to swell the already overgrown list of vituperations . Rascal , villain , are of the same temper and the same date . Such are a few of the words with which our OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 55.
... passed into an epithet , went to swell the already overgrown list of vituperations . Rascal , villain , are of the same temper and the same date . Such are a few of the words with which our OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 55.
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