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... importance to our present subject , the language spoken at the present day by the descendants of such a creole race would have resembled the French or the Spanish ; that is to say , it would have been a dialect bearing the physiognomic ...
... importance to our present subject , the language spoken at the present day by the descendants of such a creole race would have resembled the French or the Spanish ; that is to say , it would have been a dialect bearing the physiognomic ...
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... important rule , we shall find that all the primary ideas , and all the simpler objects , natural and artificial , are expressed in English by words so evidently of Teutonic origin - nay , so slightly varied from Teutonic forms — that a ...
... important rule , we shall find that all the primary ideas , and all the simpler objects , natural and artificial , are expressed in English by words so evidently of Teutonic origin - nay , so slightly varied from Teutonic forms — that a ...
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... importance , even its correct sound . * If the German pronunciation of w be the correct and original one , either ... important , for it is only sufficient to reflect on the immense number of words in German , English , and , in short ...
... importance , even its correct sound . * If the German pronunciation of w be the correct and original one , either ... important , for it is only sufficient to reflect on the immense number of words in German , English , and , in short ...
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... importance of the work , as a historical document , becomes im- measurably greater as it approaches the period when it was discon- tinued ; the description of the more recent events , and the portraits of contemporary personages ...
... importance of the work , as a historical document , becomes im- measurably greater as it approaches the period when it was discon- tinued ; the description of the more recent events , and the portraits of contemporary personages ...
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... important in the history of the literature , and consequently in that of the language also . It was in this century that Wickliffe , in popularising religion , tended also so powerfully to popularise language : it was in this century ...
... important in the history of the literature , and consequently in that of the language also . It was in this century that Wickliffe , in popularising religion , tended also so powerfully to popularise language : it was in this century ...
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Страница 157 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Страница 123 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
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