Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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Page vi
... matter himself , will secure the interest of a class of quite small boys , -not merely of the good boys at the top , but of the rank and file , of all , indeed , save the hopeless residuum who ' have taken the whole of science ' for ...
... matter himself , will secure the interest of a class of quite small boys , -not merely of the good boys at the top , but of the rank and file , of all , indeed , save the hopeless residuum who ' have taken the whole of science ' for ...
Page viii
... matter contained in these pages has but slight claims to originality . The writer of an elementary text- book , traversing ground well - trodden by many predecessors , would probably go astray , if he endeavoured at any cost to be ...
... matter contained in these pages has but slight claims to originality . The writer of an elementary text- book , traversing ground well - trodden by many predecessors , would probably go astray , if he endeavoured at any cost to be ...
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... matter to identify a Fourth - Period word on the page of a modern book . From the same Latin original we may have another word , which has come to us through the Norman - French , disguised beyond easy recognition in the course of ...
... matter to identify a Fourth - Period word on the page of a modern book . From the same Latin original we may have another word , which has come to us through the Norman - French , disguised beyond easy recognition in the course of ...
Page 15
... matter to say . Some persons would give 100,000 as the number , others 200,000 , others 400,000 . These startling discrepancies do not imply any incapacity to count correctly on the part of the people who furnish the estimates ; they ...
... matter to say . Some persons would give 100,000 as the number , others 200,000 , others 400,000 . These startling discrepancies do not imply any incapacity to count correctly on the part of the people who furnish the estimates ; they ...
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... matter to determine what words we owe to the Norsemen , as the Norsemen belonged to the Teutonic race , and their vocabulary resembled that of our own Low - German dialect . Still , there are some words which we can identify as ...
... matter to determine what words we owe to the Norsemen , as the Norsemen belonged to the Teutonic race , and their vocabulary resembled that of our own Low - German dialect . Still , there are some words which we can identify as ...
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