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... whole field of English intellectual action ; the second , that the harmonious execution of my purpose - which is to discuss the two branches of the subject , language and literature , with constant reference to their reciprocal ...
... whole field of English intellectual action ; the second , that the harmonious execution of my purpose - which is to discuss the two branches of the subject , language and literature , with constant reference to their reciprocal ...
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... whole body of Greek and Roman literature , down to the present day , would have been an advantage to modern genius , is quite another question . I have heard one of the most accomplished of American scholars , the most eloquent of ...
... whole body of Greek and Roman literature , down to the present day , would have been an advantage to modern genius , is quite another question . I have heard one of the most accomplished of American scholars , the most eloquent of ...
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... whole moral and intellectual action of different peoples , is much neglected by American scholars , and a professedly profound , but really most superficial research into linguistic analogies and ethnological relations is substituted ...
... whole moral and intellectual action of different peoples , is much neglected by American scholars , and a professedly profound , but really most superficial research into linguistic analogies and ethnological relations is substituted ...
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... whole field of social and literary history . It is maintained , for instance , by a class of linguists who insist on explaining changes in language , not by facts within the reach of actual observation , but by as- sumed inherent laws ...
... whole field of social and literary history . It is maintained , for instance , by a class of linguists who insist on explaining changes in language , not by facts within the reach of actual observation , but by as- sumed inherent laws ...
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... whole fabric of a national history , extending through ten centuries , on the Roman ortho- graphy of a single proper name belonging to a tongue wholly unknown to the Romans themselves . case . In fact , undeniable as are many of the ...
... whole fabric of a national history , extending through ten centuries , on the Roman ortho- graphy of a single proper name belonging to a tongue wholly unknown to the Romans themselves . case . In fact , undeniable as are many of the ...
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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 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.