The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... centuries of discipline and experiment , an idiom has been developed that has its own moods and sanctions , more aloof from direct personal experience than any form of colloquial expression . A detailed examination of these marks of ...
... centuries of discipline and experiment , an idiom has been developed that has its own moods and sanctions , more aloof from direct personal experience than any form of colloquial expression . A detailed examination of these marks of ...
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... century . Chaucer wrote English without any formulated rules of English grammar to direct him , probably with only vague realization of the possibility of writing an English grammar , and there is no record of any grammar for the Anglo ...
... century . Chaucer wrote English without any formulated rules of English grammar to direct him , probably with only vague realization of the possibility of writing an English grammar , and there is no record of any grammar for the Anglo ...
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... fellowmen . For this idea no satisfactory traditional English word was available in the sixteenth century . Even today no single satisfactory word is available , the idea being perhaps too vague 84 THE DRIFT TOWARD REGULARITY.
... fellowmen . For this idea no satisfactory traditional English word was available in the sixteenth century . Even today no single satisfactory word is available , the idea being perhaps too vague 84 THE DRIFT TOWARD REGULARITY.
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... century , theologians were earnestly seeking for such a term . Sir Thomas More defended charity as the better translation for Greek agape , and William Tindale argued in favor of love . Yet if two such learned men could be thus divided ...
... century , theologians were earnestly seeking for such a term . Sir Thomas More defended charity as the better translation for Greek agape , and William Tindale argued in favor of love . Yet if two such learned men could be thus divided ...
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... century listening to the voice of the genius of the English language when they enriched the English vocabulary with borrowed finery from Greek , Latin , French , Italian , and any other possible source , and do now our modern defenders ...
... century listening to the voice of the genius of the English language when they enriched the English vocabulary with borrowed finery from Greek , Latin , French , Italian , and any other possible source , and do now our modern defenders ...
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