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... employed , in the delivery of the lectures , barely because they are published under circumstances different from those in which they were read . It is proper to add that the frequent references in the foot - notes and elsewhere to the ...
... employed , in the delivery of the lectures , barely because they are published under circumstances different from those in which they were read . It is proper to add that the frequent references in the foot - notes and elsewhere to the ...
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... employ technical terms , or introduce citations , which will not easily be understood by any person possessed of sufficient literary culture to feel an intelligent interest in the subject . In all inquiries into the history of past ages ...
... employ technical terms , or introduce citations , which will not easily be understood by any person possessed of sufficient literary culture to feel an intelligent interest in the subject . In all inquiries into the history of past ages ...
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... employed in Switzerland alone . In all this , no doubt , there is an enormous exaggeration , which has been produced by giving a phonographic spelling of the colloquial pronunciation of words really the same almost everywhere , and ...
... employed in Switzerland alone . In all this , no doubt , there is an enormous exaggeration , which has been produced by giving a phonographic spelling of the colloquial pronunciation of words really the same almost everywhere , and ...
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... employed , we should have , not simply a dialect which to the eye would vary widely from that of books , but the two reporters would give us two dialects vary- ing almost as much from each other as either from the standard orthography ...
... employed , we should have , not simply a dialect which to the eye would vary widely from that of books , but the two reporters would give us two dialects vary- ing almost as much from each other as either from the standard orthography ...
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... employed as the medium of varied literary effort , there is , as subjects of intellectual discourse , practical applications of scien- tific principle , and new conditions of social and material life multiply , an increasing pliancy and ...
... employed as the medium of varied literary effort , there is , as subjects of intellectual discourse , practical applications of scien- tific principle , and new conditions of social and material life multiply , an increasing pliancy and ...
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Page 71 - Karlus meos sendra de suo part non los tanit, si io returnar non Tint pois: ne io ne neuls, cui eo returnar int pois, in nulla aiudha contra Lodhuuig nun li iv er.
Page 71 - Pro Deo amur et pro Christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo et in...
Page 552 - Muse easily surmounteth all the rest that haue written before her time or since, for sence, sweetnesse, and subtillitie, be it in Ode, Elegie, Epigram, or any other kinde of poeme Heroick or Lyricke wherein it shall please her Maiestie to employ her penne, euen by as much oddes as her owne excellent estate and degree exceedeth all the rest of her most humble vassalls.
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.
Page 561 - The works which outwardly are of God, they are in such sort of Him being one, that each Person hath in them somewhat peculiar and proper. For being Three, and they all subsisting in the essence of one Deity ; from the Father, by the Son, through the Spirit, all things are. That...
Page 458 - Were so ouercome with plesance and delyte, Only through latting of myn eyen fall, That sudaynly my hert become hir thrall, For ever of free wyll, for of manace * There was no takyn* in her suete face.
Page 273 - Ermonye c the litylle and the grete; thorghe Lybye, Caldee and a gret partie of Ethiope; thorghe Amazoyne, Inde the lasse and the more, a gret partie; and thorghe out many othere lies, that ben abouten Inde; where dwellen many dyverse Folkes, and of dyverse Maneres and Lawes, and of dyverse Schappes of Men.
Page 421 - Warning of thinges that men after seen. And forther-more, I pray yow loketh wel In the olde testament, of Daniel, If he held dremes any vanitee.
Page 425 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace" to wife That owned the virtuous ring and glass • And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar King did ride...
Page 561 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a Law.