The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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Page v
... Language . Boys and girls from thirteen to seventeen years of age are the readers whose wants it has been written to supply . For a treatise intended to meet the requirements of older students , a different choice of materials would ...
... Language . Boys and girls from thirteen to seventeen years of age are the readers whose wants it has been written to supply . For a treatise intended to meet the requirements of older students , a different choice of materials would ...
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... residuum who ' have taken the whole of science ' for their aversion , -while he sketches for them the gradual growth of our language , or talks over with them the difference between Common and Proper nouns , vi PREFACE .
... residuum who ' have taken the whole of science ' for their aversion , -while he sketches for them the gradual growth of our language , or talks over with them the difference between Common and Proper nouns , vi PREFACE .
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... Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to Parse , of Mr Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue , of Dr Morris's Historical Outlines of English Accidence , and of Prof. Skeat's Etymological Dic- tionary ...
... Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to Parse , of Mr Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue , of Dr Morris's Historical Outlines of English Accidence , and of Prof. Skeat's Etymological Dic- tionary ...
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... Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to Parse , of Mr Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue , of Dr Morris's Historical Outlines of English Accidence , and of Prof. Skeat's Etymological Dictionary ...
... Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to Parse , of Mr Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue , of Dr Morris's Historical Outlines of English Accidence , and of Prof. Skeat's Etymological Dictionary ...
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... language . When , in our flights of rhetoric or poetry , we declare that we glory in the name of Britons , or sing that Britons never shall be slaves , our intentions are patriotic , but our language is apt to be misleading . Britons we ...
... language . When , in our flights of rhetoric or poetry , we declare that we glory in the name of Britons , or sing that Britons never shall be slaves , our intentions are patriotic , but our language is apt to be misleading . Britons we ...
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