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... sense , and rare demonstrative powers , may dispense with such studies as I am advocating and illus- trating , I believe they will be found in general the most efficient helps to a complete mastery of the English tongue . NOTES AND ...
... sense , and rare demonstrative powers , may dispense with such studies as I am advocating and illus- trating , I believe they will be found in general the most efficient helps to a complete mastery of the English tongue . NOTES AND ...
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... sense the representative of an older and more primitive tongue . Their natural resemblances are results of a tendency to coalesce , imposed upon them by the social and political influence of Rome , not evidence of greater likeness and ...
... sense the representative of an older and more primitive tongue . Their natural resemblances are results of a tendency to coalesce , imposed upon them by the social and political influence of Rome , not evidence of greater likeness and ...
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... sense in which the word is now used in German criticism . Happily for the interests of learning , most distinguished Continental linguists are phi- lologists also . On the other hand , American , and , I must add , English professed ...
... sense in which the word is now used in German criticism . Happily for the interests of learning , most distinguished Continental linguists are phi- lologists also . On the other hand , American , and , I must add , English professed ...
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... sense , the German language makes its appearance in history in the classic ages of Greek and Roman literature , that is , the language is often spoken of , and a few proper and common nouns belonging to it are recorded 80 LECT . II ...
... sense , the German language makes its appearance in history in the classic ages of Greek and Roman literature , that is , the language is often spoken of , and a few proper and common nouns belonging to it are recorded 80 LECT . II ...
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... sense , to solder ? These are purely questions of historical etymology , and we can no more determine them by comparison of forms , than we can prove by the linguistic character of the name Alfred , that that prince had , or had not a ...
... sense , to solder ? These are purely questions of historical etymology , and we can no more determine them by comparison of forms , than we can prove by the linguistic character of the name Alfred , that that prince had , or had not a ...
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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.