On the English Language, Past and PresentW.J. Widdleton, 1860 - 238 Seiten |
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... Saxons and Anglo - Normans , with not a few accessions from other quarters besides , I would suggest to you the profit ... Saxon ; thirty would be Latin ( including , of course , the Latin which has come to us through the French ) ; five ...
... Saxons and Anglo - Normans , with not a few accessions from other quarters besides , I would suggest to you the profit ... Saxon ; thirty would be Latin ( including , of course , the Latin which has come to us through the French ) ; five ...
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... Saxon word , L over every Latin , and so on with the others , if any other should occur in the portion which you have submitted to this ex- amination . When this is done , you will count up the number of those which each language ...
... Saxon word , L over every Latin , and so on with the others , if any other should occur in the portion which you have submitted to this ex- amination . When this is done , you will count up the number of those which each language ...
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... Saxon ' disc , ' the German ' tisch ; ' ' beech ' and ' book , ' both the Anglo - Saxon ' boc , ' our first books being beechen tablets ( see Grimm , Wörterbuch , s . vv . ' Buch , ' ' Buche ' ) ; ' girdle ' and ' kirtle , ' both of ...
... Saxon ' disc , ' the German ' tisch ; ' ' beech ' and ' book , ' both the Anglo - Saxon ' boc , ' our first books being beechen tablets ( see Grimm , Wörterbuch , s . vv . ' Buch , ' ' Buche ' ) ; ' girdle ' and ' kirtle , ' both of ...
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... Saxon origin ; little more , that is , than the proportion of seven in the hundred ; while , still stronger than this , in five verses out of Genesis , containing one hundred and thirty words , there are only five not Saxon - less ...
... Saxon origin ; little more , that is , than the proportion of seven in the hundred ; while , still stronger than this , in five verses out of Genesis , containing one hundred and thirty words , there are only five not Saxon - less ...
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... Saxon over the Latin element of the language . But it is not so ; the Anglo - Saxon words by no means outnumber the Latin in the degree which the analysis of those passages would seem to imply . It is not that there are so many more ...
... Saxon over the Latin element of the language . But it is not so ; the Anglo - Saxon words by no means outnumber the Latin in the degree which the analysis of those passages would seem to imply . It is not that there are so many more ...
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