The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 Seiten |
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... called a well - educated man , an exact mastery of the Science of Eng- lish Grammar . The description here given of the principal steps by which our native tongue was formed , illustrates , almost in every page , some characteristic ...
... called a well - educated man , an exact mastery of the Science of Eng- lish Grammar . The description here given of the principal steps by which our native tongue was formed , illustrates , almost in every page , some characteristic ...
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... called the Middle Ages , differs strikingly from the Ages described as Dark . The latter were seemingly fruitful in nothing but undecided conflicts : now we reach a state of things which , with receding waves like the flowing tide ...
... called the Middle Ages , differs strikingly from the Ages described as Dark . The latter were seemingly fruitful in nothing but undecided conflicts : now we reach a state of things which , with receding waves like the flowing tide ...
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... called Normandy . They were thus sprung from the same great Gothic race , another branch of which had sent forth the Anglo - Saxons . But they had long ago lost all vestiges of their pedigree . They had abandoned , almost universally ...
... called Normandy . They were thus sprung from the same great Gothic race , another branch of which had sent forth the Anglo - Saxons . But they had long ago lost all vestiges of their pedigree . They had abandoned , almost universally ...
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... present ; although they will be left out of view when we pass to those later periods , in which the Germanic population became decisively predominant in Great Britain . The first of the Celtic tongues has oftenest been called.
... present ; although they will be left out of view when we pass to those later periods , in which the Germanic population became decisively predominant in Great Britain . The first of the Celtic tongues has oftenest been called.
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... called Erse or Gaelic . It was common , with dialectic varieties only , to the Celts of Ireland and those of Scotland . Ireland was wholly oc- cupied by tribes of this stock , except some small Norse settle- ments on the seacoast ...
... called Erse or Gaelic . It was common , with dialectic varieties only , to the Celts of Ireland and those of Scotland . Ireland was wholly oc- cupied by tribes of this stock , except some small Norse settle- ments on the seacoast ...
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