A Manual of English Literature: And of the History of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest. With Numerous SpecimensGriffin, 1867 - 536 pagina's |
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Pagina 189
... regard to liquids , that a salutary and palatable beverage can never be made by the interfusion of two or more different kinds . Our tongue is now , and was many centuries ago , not , indeed , in its grammatical structure , but in its ...
... regard to liquids , that a salutary and palatable beverage can never be made by the interfusion of two or more different kinds . Our tongue is now , and was many centuries ago , not , indeed , in its grammatical structure , but in its ...
Pagina 276
... regard to particular points thus only heighten the impression of his general eminence , —of that some- thing about him not fully understood or discerned , which , spite of all curtailment of his claims in regard to one special kind of ...
... regard to particular points thus only heighten the impression of his general eminence , —of that some- thing about him not fully understood or discerned , which , spite of all curtailment of his claims in regard to one special kind of ...
Pagina 402
... regard with which the latter had been received for so long a time . What , in the first instance at least , more than his rhetoric , made the unknown Junius the object of universal interest , and of very general terror , was undoubtedly ...
... regard with which the latter had been received for so long a time . What , in the first instance at least , more than his rhetoric , made the unknown Junius the object of universal interest , and of very general terror , was undoubtedly ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Languages of Modern Europe | 1 |
The Celtic Languages and Literatures | 7 |
Original English commonly called Saxon or AngloSaxon | 15 |
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