The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 23
John Earle. conterminous Romance - speaking people . This is the most probable account of the names Wallachia , the Walloons in Belgium , and the Canton Wallis in Switzerland . On this principle we called the Romanised Britons , and the ...
John Earle. conterminous Romance - speaking people . This is the most probable account of the names Wallachia , the Walloons in Belgium , and the Canton Wallis in Switzerland . On this principle we called the Romanised Britons , and the ...
Pagina 38
... speaking of acquaintance with persons . So in Saxon : ' Canst þu pone preost pe is gehaten Eadsige ? ' Knowest thou the priest that is called Eadsige ? 37. On is a common preposition in Saxon , but its area of incidence is different ...
... speaking of acquaintance with persons . So in Saxon : ' Canst þu pone preost pe is gehaten Eadsige ? ' Knowest thou the priest that is called Eadsige ? 37. On is a common preposition in Saxon , but its area of incidence is different ...
Pagina 39
... language . 39. Such were some of the features of the Saxon speech , as well as we can illustrate them by a reference to modern English . Speaking relatively to the times , it was CHARACTERISTICS OF ANGLO - SAXON . 39.
... language . 39. Such were some of the features of the Saxon speech , as well as we can illustrate them by a reference to modern English . Speaking relatively to the times , it was CHARACTERISTICS OF ANGLO - SAXON . 39.
Pagina 40
John Earle. English . Speaking relatively to the times , it was not a rude language , but probably the most disciplined of all the ver- naculars of western Europe , and certainly the most cultivated of all the dialects of the Gothic ...
John Earle. English . Speaking relatively to the times , it was not a rude language , but probably the most disciplined of all the ver- naculars of western Europe , and certainly the most cultivated of all the dialects of the Gothic ...
Pagina 41
... speak no other ; and here and there a secluded student continued to write in it . But its honours and emoluments were gone , and a gloomy period of depression lay before the Saxon language as before the Saxon people . It is not too much ...
... speak no other ; and here and there a secluded student continued to write in it . But its honours and emoluments were gone , and a gloomy period of depression lay before the Saxon language as before the Saxon people . It is not too much ...
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