The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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... speech . But to these two questions an answer ought to be given here : ( 1 ) Who were these settlers ? ( 2 ) Where did they come from ? ( 1 ) They were Teutonic tribes . The people , whom we call Germans , call themselves Deutsch . The ...
... speech . But to these two questions an answer ought to be given here : ( 1 ) Who were these settlers ? ( 2 ) Where did they come from ? ( 1 ) They were Teutonic tribes . The people , whom we call Germans , call themselves Deutsch . The ...
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... speech of their Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in ... speech of foreigners who had taken our England and made it their own . 11. Other incidents in our history deserve ...
... speech of their Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in ... speech of foreigners who had taken our England and made it their own . 11. Other incidents in our history deserve ...
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... speech as it exists to - day , and in the next chapter we shall say something about the character of the words which we owe to these events . I. The original inhabitants of this country were Britons , a Keltic race , speaking a language ...
... speech as it exists to - day , and in the next chapter we shall say something about the character of the words which we owe to these events . I. The original inhabitants of this country were Britons , a Keltic race , speaking a language ...
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... speech are few . When we bear in mind that in some parts of our island the British inhabitants were nearly exterminated by their English conquerors and that British civilization was practically de- stroyed , we are not surprised to find ...
... speech are few . When we bear in mind that in some parts of our island the British inhabitants were nearly exterminated by their English conquerors and that British civilization was practically de- stroyed , we are not surprised to find ...
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... speech , and of those which they did contribute none happened to be of Latin origin . We can trace the effect of Roman occu- pation however in several names of places . When we meet with a word like Don - caster , or Circen - cester ...
... speech , and of those which they did contribute none happened to be of Latin origin . We can trace the effect of Roman occu- pation however in several names of places . When we meet with a word like Don - caster , or Circen - cester ...
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