The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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Seite iv
... literary culture . Ours might well be called a pen and paper civilization . In all this there is much that is admirable . It has provided the world with a new form of expression . Everybody reads nowadays , and almost everybody writes ...
... literary culture . Ours might well be called a pen and paper civilization . In all this there is much that is admirable . It has provided the world with a new form of expression . Everybody reads nowadays , and almost everybody writes ...
Seite vi
... literary aspirations . It is that , and as we shall continually insist , the English language of today is most importantly that . But the English language is something more than a handmaiden to make profitable , or instructive , or ...
... literary aspirations . It is that , and as we shall continually insist , the English language of today is most importantly that . But the English language is something more than a handmaiden to make profitable , or instructive , or ...
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... literary speech that the literary speech is often quite useless when one attempts to account for the details of modern French . But the differentiation of popular and literary Latin is only the beginning of the distinctions that must be ...
... literary speech that the literary speech is often quite useless when one attempts to account for the details of modern French . But the differentiation of popular and literary Latin is only the beginning of the distinctions that must be ...
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... literary language . Gothic is still more regular , is in fact almost a perfect system . But the doubt will not down that the Gothic language as we know it , and our knowledge is derived from a very small body of text , was made to order ...
... literary language . Gothic is still more regular , is in fact almost a perfect system . But the doubt will not down that the Gothic language as we know it , and our knowledge is derived from a very small body of text , was made to order ...
Seite 55
... literary English , ordinarily regarded as being on a high level , is really any better than the spoken word , is really as good as the spoken word , warm with the breath of the living moment . In accepting these distinctions of level as ...
... literary English , ordinarily regarded as being on a high level , is really any better than the spoken word , is really as good as the spoken word , warm with the breath of the living moment . In accepting these distinctions of level as ...
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