A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman ConquestGriffin, Bohn, 1861 |
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... are to say that an old language has died and a new one come into existence ; but , at any rate , even when the language is admitted to be the same , it not unfrequently differs almost as much in two of its stages as if it.
... are to say that an old language has died and a new one come into existence ; but , at any rate , even when the language is admitted to be the same , it not unfrequently differs almost as much in two of its stages as if it.
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... existence ; a literature is only a luxury . Hence it sometimes happens that the origin of a nation's literature , and the influences which have inspired and moulded it , have been more or less distinct from the sources whence the ...
... existence ; a literature is only a luxury . Hence it sometimes happens that the origin of a nation's literature , and the influences which have inspired and moulded it , have been more or less distinct from the sources whence the ...
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... existence to this day of a large Cymric population in South Britain , and of a still larger Gaelic- speaking population in North Britain and in Ireland . No other account of these Celtic populations , or at least of the Welsh , has been ...
... existence to this day of a large Cymric population in South Britain , and of a still larger Gaelic- speaking population in North Britain and in Ireland . No other account of these Celtic populations , or at least of the Welsh , has been ...
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... existence ; they have all thus grown out of older forms of speech ; none of them have been manufac- tured or invented . It would seem that human skill could as soon invent a tree as invent a language . The one as well as the other is ...
... existence ; they have all thus grown out of older forms of speech ; none of them have been manufac- tured or invented . It would seem that human skill could as soon invent a tree as invent a language . The one as well as the other is ...
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... existence , has been immense . No language ever ceases to move until it becomes what is called dead , which term , although com- monly understood to mean merely that the language has ceased to be spoken , really signifies , here as ...
... existence , has been immense . No language ever ceases to move until it becomes what is called dead , which term , although com- monly understood to mean merely that the language has ceased to be spoken , really signifies , here as ...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., 1 tomas George Lillie Craik Visos knygos peržiūra - 1863 |
A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language ... George Lillie Craik Visos knygos peržiūra - 1861 |
A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., 1 tomas George Lillie Craik Visos knygos peržiūra - 1864 |
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