The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 39
... preposition needs not to be otherwise rendered in modern English , e . g . ' Eode him þa ham hal on his fotum , se þe ær was geboren on bære to cyrcan ' : He went off then home whole on his feet , he who before was borne on bier to ...
... preposition needs not to be otherwise rendered in modern English , e . g . ' Eode him þa ham hal on his fotum , se þe ær was geboren on bære to cyrcan ' : He went off then home whole on his feet , he who before was borne on bier to ...
Pagina 161
... preposition on , a sound naturally derived from its original form in the Saxon numeral AN . But it has now long been pronounced as wUN or won ( in Devonshire woNN ) , and this change may with probability be placed at the close of the ...
... preposition on , a sound naturally derived from its original form in the Saxon numeral AN . But it has now long been pronounced as wUN or won ( in Devonshire woNN ) , and this change may with probability be placed at the close of the ...
Pagina 187
... connected with it by a preposition , as- Oh for a humbler heart and prouder song ! This is the nearest approach which it makes to structural relations with the sentence , and this sort of relation ' NATURE OF INTERJECTIONS . 187.
... connected with it by a preposition , as- Oh for a humbler heart and prouder song ! This is the nearest approach which it makes to structural relations with the sentence , and this sort of relation ' NATURE OF INTERJECTIONS . 187.
Pagina 199
... preposition ' in ' and the substantive ' deed , ' which is equi- valent to act , fact , or reality . All this vanishes and is lost in the mere iambic disyllable which is employed as a vehicle for the feigned tones of surprise . Iago . I ...
... preposition ' in ' and the substantive ' deed , ' which is equi- valent to act , fact , or reality . All this vanishes and is lost in the mere iambic disyllable which is employed as a vehicle for the feigned tones of surprise . Iago . I ...
Pagina 206
... preposition , ' forty stripes save one . ' The force of these observations is not lessened by the fact that there are many words in English that discharge but one function , and are of one part of speech only . In such cases the Habit ...
... preposition , ' forty stripes save one . ' The force of these observations is not lessened by the fact that there are many words in English that discharge but one function , and are of one part of speech only . In such cases the Habit ...
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