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Pagina 6
Their earliest literary traces go back to the fourth century , and appear in the
villages of Dacia , in lands which slope to the Danube ; where the country is now
called Wallachia . It is from this region that we have the Moso - Gothic Gospels
and ...
Their earliest literary traces go back to the fourth century , and appear in the
villages of Dacia , in lands which slope to the Danube ; where the country is now
called Wallachia . It is from this region that we have the Moso - Gothic Gospels
and ...
Pagina 16
We have called our country England , and our language English : yet our
neighbours west and north , the Welsh and the Gael , have still called us Saxons ,
and our language Saxonish . It has become the literary habit of recent times to
use the ...
We have called our country England , and our language English : yet our
neighbours west and north , the Welsh and the Gael , have still called us Saxons ,
and our language Saxonish . It has become the literary habit of recent times to
use the ...
Pagina 17
There is some degree of literary impropriety in this , because the Saxons called
their own language Englisc . On this ground some critics insist that we should let
the word English stand for the whole extent of our insular history , which they ...
There is some degree of literary impropriety in this , because the Saxons called
their own language Englisc . On this ground some critics insist that we should let
the word English stand for the whole extent of our insular history , which they ...
Pagina 18
And hence we find that of the words which the Saxons learnt from the Britons ,
some are undoubted Latin , others are doubtful whether they should be called
Latin or Keltic . Of the first class are those elements of local nomenclature -
CHESTER ...
And hence we find that of the words which the Saxons learnt from the Britons ,
some are undoubted Latin , others are doubtful whether they should be called
Latin or Keltic . Of the first class are those elements of local nomenclature -
CHESTER ...
Pagina 20
York is so called from the Keltic river - name Eure ; from an elder form of which
came the old Latin form of the city - name Ebur - acum . But often where the
sense cannot be so plainly traced , we acquiesce in the opinion that names are
British ...
York is so called from the Keltic river - name Eure ; from an elder form of which
came the old Latin form of the city - name Ebur - acum . But often where the
sense cannot be so plainly traced , we acquiesce in the opinion that names are
British ...
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | The Philology of the English Tongue Clarendon Press series |
| Autore | John Earle |
| Editore | Clarendon Press, 1871 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | Università di Princeton |
| Digitalizzato | 3 mar 2009 |
| Lunghezza | 599 pagine |
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