The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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... tongue , and it has been supposed that his work may in some measure be represented by an exuberant Saxon version of the Psalter which is pre- served in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris , and which was printed in the year 1835 at the ...
... tongue , and it has been supposed that his work may in some measure be represented by an exuberant Saxon version of the Psalter which is pre- served in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris , and which was printed in the year 1835 at the ...
Pagina 29
... tongue , and that foreign help can only bring up a wild language to eloquence by very slow degrees . There is a vague idea among us that our language was then in its infancy , and that its compass was as narrow as the few necessary ...
... tongue , and that foreign help can only bring up a wild language to eloquence by very slow degrees . There is a vague idea among us that our language was then in its infancy , and that its compass was as narrow as the few necessary ...
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