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... idea so exclusively Celtic that it forms a perfect and untranslatable sign of that idea ; while " cairn , " though by no means peculiar to the Celts , and defining a mode of honourable burial universal in former ages ( as testified by ...
... idea so exclusively Celtic that it forms a perfect and untranslatable sign of that idea ; while " cairn , " though by no means peculiar to the Celts , and defining a mode of honourable burial universal in former ages ( as testified by ...
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... idea be a Saxon or a Latin word , by observing whether that object be a primitive and simple or a complex and arti ficial one . It must not , however , be inferred from this that the Saxon lan- guage was a rude and uncultivated mode of ...
... idea be a Saxon or a Latin word , by observing whether that object be a primitive and simple or a complex and arti ficial one . It must not , however , be inferred from this that the Saxon lan- guage was a rude and uncultivated mode of ...
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... idea of the difficulty encoun- tered by philologists in fixing the exact period at which the Saxon merged into the English , than the great variety of decisions founded upon the style of this work ; some of our most learned antiquarians ...
... idea of the difficulty encoun- tered by philologists in fixing the exact period at which the Saxon merged into the English , than the great variety of decisions founded upon the style of this work ; some of our most learned antiquarians ...
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... idea of the scope and cha- racter of English literature than we could expect to afford them by a more elaborate and detailed work , the materials for which are so abundant , that it would require not a volume but a library to develop ...
... idea of the scope and cha- racter of English literature than we could expect to afford them by a more elaborate and detailed work , the materials for which are so abundant , that it would require not a volume but a library to develop ...
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... idea , uot improbable , that Shakspeare drew his fine conceptions of female character from Sidney . Shakspeare solely , of all our elder dramatists , has given true beauty to woman ; and Shakspeare was an attentive reader of the Arcadia ...
... idea , uot improbable , that Shakspeare drew his fine conceptions of female character from Sidney . Shakspeare solely , of all our elder dramatists , has given true beauty to woman ; and Shakspeare was an attentive reader of the Arcadia ...
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