Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volumen1Nicol, 1803 - 424 páginas |
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... less than nine - tenths of our present English words are of Saxon origin ; as a familiar proof of which he observes , that there are in the Lord's Prayer only three words of French or Latin extrac tion . On the other hand , Mr. Tyrwhitt ...
... less than nine - tenths of our present English words are of Saxon origin ; as a familiar proof of which he observes , that there are in the Lord's Prayer only three words of French or Latin extrac tion . On the other hand , Mr. Tyrwhitt ...
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... less difficulty ; indeed the Normans , having only two words of this class , were accustomed to apply them to a greater variety of purposes than was usual with the Saxons . Hence perhaps arose the transitive use of the verb do , which ...
... less difficulty ; indeed the Normans , having only two words of this class , were accustomed to apply them to a greater variety of purposes than was usual with the Saxons . Hence perhaps arose the transitive use of the verb do , which ...
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... less than thirteen distinct vowel sounds , and twenty - one modifications of those sounds , making in all thirty - four , which we express , as well as we can , by six and twenty letters : but at an earlier period of our language , when ...
... less than thirteen distinct vowel sounds , and twenty - one modifications of those sounds , making in all thirty - four , which we express , as well as we can , by six and twenty letters : but at an earlier period of our language , when ...
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... less strictly metrical ; -and that , as the date of its original introduction into Latin can only be conjectured , it is not more absurd to ascribe it to some northern proselyte , desirous of bestowing on the learned language an ...
... less strictly metrical ; -and that , as the date of its original introduction into Latin can only be conjectured , it is not more absurd to ascribe it to some northern proselyte , desirous of bestowing on the learned language an ...
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... lan- guage in their dominions ; that the measure was not at all necessary to the establishment of their power ; and that such an attempt is , in all cases , no less impracticable than absurd , because the patient indocility [ 38 ]
... lan- guage in their dominions ; that the measure was not at all necessary to the establishment of their power ; and that such an attempt is , in all cases , no less impracticable than absurd , because the patient indocility [ 38 ]
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