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... true significance of English letters . The political and literary independence of England grew with the diminution of its continental territory . So long as the British throne held any important portion of its dominions by a feudal ...
... true significance of English letters . The political and literary independence of England grew with the diminution of its continental territory . So long as the British throne held any important portion of its dominions by a feudal ...
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... true character of particular branches of literary effort , or even to decide questions of pure gram- matical form . The publication of such of the remaining me- morials of early English and Anglo - Saxon literature as still survive only ...
... true character of particular branches of literary effort , or even to decide questions of pure gram- matical form . The publication of such of the remaining me- morials of early English and Anglo - Saxon literature as still survive only ...
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... true of ortho- graphy and grammar as of literary form , that there is no unity . until great authors arise and become generally recognised as authoritative standards . The founders of a national literature , therefore , conform not to ...
... true of ortho- graphy and grammar as of literary form , that there is no unity . until great authors arise and become generally recognised as authoritative standards . The founders of a national literature , therefore , conform not to ...
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... true route by which , and the source from which , they have migrated into our mother - tongue . * The former is the least laborious and the most ambitious method . It is easier , by the teenth and fourteenth centuries than in any other ...
... true route by which , and the source from which , they have migrated into our mother - tongue . * The former is the least laborious and the most ambitious method . It is easier , by the teenth and fourteenth centuries than in any other ...
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... true of the infant age of every modern literature , with the exception of that of Italy , that it has not produced at the same time great poets and great historians . In point of literary merit , the Icelandic historical school ranks ...
... true of the infant age of every modern literature , with the exception of that of Italy , that it has not produced at the same time great poets and great historians . In point of literary merit , the Icelandic historical school ranks ...
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Page 557 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name; yet our soundest knowledge is to know that, we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him: and our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence, when we confess without confession that his glory is inexplicable, his greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we upon earth; therefore it behoveth our words to be wary...
Page 557 - 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.
Page 69 - 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 488 - ... al noble lordes and ladyes wyth al other estates, of what estate or degree they been of, that shal see and rede in this sayd book and werke, that they take the good and honest actes in their remembraunce, and to folowe the same; wherin they shalle fynde many joyous and playsaunt hystoryes and noble and renomed actes of humanyte, gentylnesse, and chyvalryes.
Page xv - 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 488 - I haue after the symple connynge that god hath sente to me / vnder the fauour and correctyon of al noble lordes and gentylmen enprysed to enprynte a book of the noble hystoryes of the sayd kynge Arthur / and of certeyn of his knyghtes after a copye vnto me delyuerd / whyche copye Syr Thomas Malorye dyd take oute of certeyn bookes of frensshe and reduced it in to Englysshe...
Page 486 - For it is notoyrly knowen thorugh the unyversal world that there been nine worthy and the best that ever were, that is to wete, thre Paynyms, thre Jewes, and thre Crysten men. As for the Paynyms, they were tofore the Incarnacyon of Cryst, whiche were named, the fyrst Hector of Troye, of...
Page 166 - And I will fare to Avalun, to the fairest of all maidens, to Argante the queen, an elf most fair, and she shall make my wounds all sound; make me all whole with healing draughts.
Page 560 - ... unchangeable; the counsel of God, and that law of God whereof now we speak, being one. Nor is the freedom of the will of God any whit abated, let, or hindered, by means of this; because the imposition of this law upon himself is his own free and voluntary act. This law therefore we may name eternal, being that order which God before all ages hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
Page v - ANECDOTA LITERARIA; a Collection of Short Poems in English, Latin, and French, illustrative of the Literature and History of England in the Xlllth Century ,- and more especially of the Condition and Manners of the different Classes of Society.