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... derived , by more or less direct processes , from one and the same ancient tongue , or , rather , group of nearly related dialects , and they so far conform , in their grammatical structure , to the Latin , the common repre- sentative ...
... derived , by more or less direct processes , from one and the same ancient tongue , or , rather , group of nearly related dialects , and they so far conform , in their grammatical structure , to the Latin , the common repre- sentative ...
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... derived , were inflected languages , and had the syntactical peculiarities common to most grammars with inflections ; but in the friction between the two , the variable and more loosely attached growths of both were rubbed off , and the ...
... derived , were inflected languages , and had the syntactical peculiarities common to most grammars with inflections ; but in the friction between the two , the variable and more loosely attached growths of both were rubbed off , and the ...
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... derived . English is a patchwork of two , or rather , three tissues , dissimilar in material as well as in form , and to a distant observer has a prevailing hue very different from that of either of them , though , upon a nearer ...
... derived . English is a patchwork of two , or rather , three tissues , dissimilar in material as well as in form , and to a distant observer has a prevailing hue very different from that of either of them , though , upon a nearer ...
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... derived not wholly from the Anglo- Saxon of books , which alone is known to us , but in a great measure , no doubt , from a spoken tongue that has now utterly perished , except so far as it has lived on , first in the mouths and then in ...
... derived not wholly from the Anglo- Saxon of books , which alone is known to us , but in a great measure , no doubt , from a spoken tongue that has now utterly perished , except so far as it has lived on , first in the mouths and then in ...
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... derive any modern word directly from any root , in any of these tongues , which in the least resembles it in form and signification , without at all troubling themselves about the historical probabilities of the Modern philologists have ...
... derive any modern word directly from any root , in any of these tongues , which in the least resembles it in form and signification , without at all troubling themselves about the historical probabilities of the Modern philologists have ...
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adjective ancient Ancren Riwle Anglo-Saxon Canterbury Tales character Chaucer Chronicle composition comun Confessio Amantis Crist dialect diction early English edition employed England English language English literature evidence expression extant foreign fourteenth century French German gode Gothic Gothic languages Gower grammatical grete hath haue hence holy Icel Icelandic inflections influence Jhesus king kyng later Latin Layamon Lecture linguistic literary lond Lord manuscript means native noble noght noun obsolete Ohther original Ormulum orthography participle period philological Piers Ploughman plural poem poet poetical poetry pope probably pronoun pronunciation prose rhyme Robert of Gloucester Romance Saxon sayd Scandinavian schal seide shal sone speech syllables syntactical syntax Thanne ther thirteenth century thou tion tongue translation tyme Ulfilas verb verse vocabulary vowels whan wolde words writers written Wycliffe Wycliffite þat καὶ
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Page 1 - Origin and History of the English Language, and of the early literature it embodies. By the Hon. George P. Marsh. US Minister at Turin, Author of " Lectures on the English Language.
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