Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... speak the English language . When , in our flights of rhetoric or poetry , we declare that we glory in the name of Britons , or sing that Britons never shall be slaves , our intentions are patriotic , but our language is apt to be ...
... speak the English language . When , in our flights of rhetoric or poetry , we declare that we glory in the name of Britons , or sing that Britons never shall be slaves , our intentions are patriotic , but our language is apt to be ...
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... speak French : the English continued to speak English , and books were written in English . Nearly two centuries elapsed before there was a real amalgamation . About the year 1250 French words began to pass freely into the native ...
... speak French : the English continued to speak English , and books were written in English . Nearly two centuries elapsed before there was a real amalgamation . About the year 1250 French words began to pass freely into the native ...
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... speak to - day . Norman lords occupied the lands from which English owners had been ejected . Normans held the higher offices in church and state . Deli- berate efforts were made to extend the use of the French language Boys at grammar ...
... speak to - day . Norman lords occupied the lands from which English owners had been ejected . Normans held the higher offices in church and state . Deli- berate efforts were made to extend the use of the French language Boys at grammar ...
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... speak , by which the sentence is bound together . Take these words away , and the sentence tumbles to pieces . Take away the classical words , and we can in most cases substitute for them words of English origin . Again , ( 2 ) by far ...
... speak , by which the sentence is bound together . Take these words away , and the sentence tumbles to pieces . Take away the classical words , and we can in most cases substitute for them words of English origin . Again , ( 2 ) by far ...
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... speak of these migrations with the same certainty which we feel when we speak of the English coming from Schleswig - Holstein , or of the Normans coming from France . In proof of these invasions of Saxons and Normans we can produce ...
... speak of these migrations with the same certainty which we feel when we speak of the English coming from Schleswig - Holstein , or of the Normans coming from France . In proof of these invasions of Saxons and Normans we can produce ...
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