The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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... Romans returned . In the year A.D. 43 , the Roman legions were sent to Britain again , and in the course of the next forty years the country was reduced to subjection as far as the Tyne . Half a century later , the limit of Roman ...
... Romans returned . In the year A.D. 43 , the Roman legions were sent to Britain again , and in the course of the next forty years the country was reduced to subjection as far as the Tyne . Half a century later , the limit of Roman ...
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... Romans , getting as near as they could to the name by which these German tribes called themselves , made the word Teutoni and gave it a Latin declension . From this we derive the convenient term Teutonic . If we pronounce the stems of ...
... Romans , getting as near as they could to the name by which these German tribes called themselves , made the word Teutoni and gave it a Latin declension . From this we derive the convenient term Teutonic . If we pronounce the stems of ...
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... Roman missionaries . Our English forefathers were heathen . We preserve relics of their worship in the names of the days of the week . Roman missionaries were sent to this country in the year A.D. 597 to teach them Christianity . Latin ...
... Roman missionaries . Our English forefathers were heathen . We preserve relics of their worship in the names of the days of the week . Roman missionaries were sent to this country in the year A.D. 597 to teach them Christianity . Latin ...
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... Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in disguise . 10. The Revival of Learning . The sixteenth century is the time of the Revival of Classical Learning , or of the Renaissance as ...
... Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in disguise . 10. The Revival of Learning . The sixteenth century is the time of the Revival of Classical Learning , or of the Renaissance as ...
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... Romans , who remained here from A.D. 43 to 410. They were then subjugated by the Jutes , Saxons , and Angles , tribes belonging to the Low German branch of the Teutonic stock . These English people came from the district north of the ...
... Romans , who remained here from A.D. 43 to 410. They were then subjugated by the Jutes , Saxons , and Angles , tribes belonging to the Low German branch of the Teutonic stock . These English people came from the district north of the ...
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