Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... sometimes called . of Constantinople by the Turks in A.D. 1453 had caused the flight of the cultured Greeks who lived there , and they sought refuge in the cities of Italy . To Florence flocked eager students out of many lands to ...
... sometimes called . of Constantinople by the Turks in A.D. 1453 had caused the flight of the cultured Greeks who lived there , and they sought refuge in the cities of Italy . To Florence flocked eager students out of many lands to ...
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... sometimes called the Latin of the First Period . 16. In A.D. 597 , St Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory to teach Christianity to the English , and in the course of the next four centuries several Latin words , connected with the ...
... sometimes called the Latin of the First Period . 16. In A.D. 597 , St Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory to teach Christianity to the English , and in the course of the next four centuries several Latin words , connected with the ...
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... sometimes said that we ought always to use an English word instead of a Latin word if we can . But a hard and fast rule of this sort is not to be laid down for universal application as a maxim of style . The Latin word may sometimes be ...
... sometimes said that we ought always to use an English word instead of a Latin word if we can . But a hard and fast rule of this sort is not to be laid down for universal application as a maxim of style . The Latin word may sometimes be ...
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... Sometimes they move from the country districts and settle in the large towns . Sometimes they leave the old country and seek their fortunes in a new one . The men who cut themselves adrift from their old moorings are , as a rule , the ...
... Sometimes they move from the country districts and settle in the large towns . Sometimes they leave the old country and seek their fortunes in a new one . The men who cut themselves adrift from their old moorings are , as a rule , the ...
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... sometimes called Moso - Gothic . This was the language spoken by the Western Goths , or Visigoths , who settled in Mœsia , a district corresponding to the present Servia and Bulgaria . About the year A.D. 350 Bishop Wulfila ( or ...
... sometimes called Moso - Gothic . This was the language spoken by the Western Goths , or Visigoths , who settled in Mœsia , a district corresponding to the present Servia and Bulgaria . About the year A.D. 350 Bishop Wulfila ( or ...
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