The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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... origin ; that our English forefathers conquered the Britons , deprived them of their lands , and made many of them slaves ; that the English settled in the country belonging to the Britons , and that their descendants have remained here ...
... origin ; that our English forefathers conquered the Britons , deprived them of their lands , and made many of them slaves ; that the English settled in the country belonging to the Britons , and that their descendants have remained here ...
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... origin . No stigma of inferiority is attached to us when we are described as a ' Low German ' race . 5. What became of the Keltic race , the Britons ? They were driven into the west and the north of the island , -into Devon and Cornwall ...
... origin . No stigma of inferiority is attached to us when we are described as a ' Low German ' race . 5. What became of the Keltic race , the Britons ? They were driven into the west and the north of the island , -into Devon and Cornwall ...
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... origin came in at this time from the way in which they came in under the influence of the Norman Conquest . At the Revival of Learning the words were borrowed by scholars from books . Under the Norman kings they were introduced by the ...
... origin came in at this time from the way in which they came in under the influence of the Norman Conquest . At the Revival of Learning the words were borrowed by scholars from books . Under the Norman kings they were introduced by the ...
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... origin , and the growth of trade brought in others . 3. A.D. 800 to 1050. The Danes made frequent in- cursions , and from 1017 to 1042 Danish kings ruled in England . By ' Danes ' are meant not only people of Den- mark , but people of ...
... origin , and the growth of trade brought in others . 3. A.D. 800 to 1050. The Danes made frequent in- cursions , and from 1017 to 1042 Danish kings ruled in England . By ' Danes ' are meant not only people of Den- mark , but people of ...
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... origin , and there are others besides , but geographical names have no claim to be reckoned as a part of our ordinary vocabulary . Several words which were formerly supposed to have passed from Keltic into English are now known to have ...
... origin , and there are others besides , but geographical names have no claim to be reckoned as a part of our ordinary vocabulary . Several words which were formerly supposed to have passed from Keltic into English are now known to have ...
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