The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... feeling for a national or race unity as compared with the feeling for a family unity ! The two dialects are machines of very different powers and possibilities . The machinery may be of slight grasp , but capable of exquisite ...
... feeling for a national or race unity as compared with the feeling for a family unity ! The two dialects are machines of very different powers and possibilities . The machinery may be of slight grasp , but capable of exquisite ...
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... would penetrate not only the mysteries of language but also not a few of the dark places in the general growth of the thought and feeling of mankind . IV THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WHEN one 28 ENGLISH DIALECTS.
... would penetrate not only the mysteries of language but also not a few of the dark places in the general growth of the thought and feeling of mankind . IV THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WHEN one 28 ENGLISH DIALECTS.
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... - sion that a living feeling for a language with all its sins upon it is a safer foundation to build upon than a neat and perfect theory . V A TOUCHSTONE FOR ENGLISH THOUGH no apple contains in OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 39.
... - sion that a living feeling for a language with all its sins upon it is a safer foundation to build upon than a neat and perfect theory . V A TOUCHSTONE FOR ENGLISH THOUGH no apple contains in OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 39.
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... feeling for a fixed sentence word order became so firmly established , with three almost invariable positions , subject , verb , and then object , that this sentence was made over , and made over mechanically , to conform to the general ...
... feeling for a fixed sentence word order became so firmly established , with three almost invariable positions , subject , verb , and then object , that this sentence was made over , and made over mechanically , to conform to the general ...
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... feeling for the mother tongue . What we feel to be English , we know to be English . If we do not feel a form of ... feeling . The idiomatic life of the language is not some- thing external , to be constructed by the accumulation of a ...
... feeling for the mother tongue . What we feel to be English , we know to be English . If we do not feel a form of ... feeling . The idiomatic life of the language is not some- thing external , to be constructed by the accumulation of a ...
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