Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... Latin form . 4. The English Conquest . In the year A.D. 449 , a generation after the departure of the Romans , Hengist 1 Lowland Scotch is an English dialect . the Jute settled in Kent , and in the course 2 ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... Latin form . 4. The English Conquest . In the year A.D. 449 , a generation after the departure of the Romans , Hengist 1 Lowland Scotch is an English dialect . the Jute settled in Kent , and in the course 2 ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... Latin declension . From this we derive the convenient term Teutonic . If we pronounce the stems of Teut - oni and of Deut - scher with their proper vowel sounds , the resem- blance is close . We disguise this resemblance by giving to ...
... Latin declension . From this we derive the convenient term Teutonic . If we pronounce the stems of Teut - oni and of Deut - scher with their proper vowel sounds , the resem- blance is close . We disguise this resemblance by giving to ...
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... Latin became again one of the tongues of Britain , the language of its worship and of its literature . Trade brought in other words from a Latin source . 8. The Northmen . During two and a half cen- turies , from about A.D. 800 to 1050 ...
... Latin became again one of the tongues of Britain , the language of its worship and of its literature . Trade brought in other words from a Latin source . 8. The Northmen . During two and a half cen- turies , from about A.D. 800 to 1050 ...
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... Latin writers were zealously read . The con- sequence was that an enormous number of new words , borrowed directly from the Latin , passed into our English vocabulary . Hundreds of words were introduced and dropped , as there was no ...
... Latin writers were zealously read . The con- sequence was that an enormous number of new words , borrowed directly from the Latin , passed into our English vocabulary . Hundreds of words were introduced and dropped , as there was no ...
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... Latin , though the Gauls were a Keltic race . 5. The Revival of Letters , or of Classical Learning , or the Renaissance , affected our language from the time of Henry VII . to the end of Charles I.'s reign , i.e. during the 16th and the ...
... Latin , though the Gauls were a Keltic race . 5. The Revival of Letters , or of Classical Learning , or the Renaissance , affected our language from the time of Henry VII . to the end of Charles I.'s reign , i.e. during the 16th and the ...
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