The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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Page 24
... relations , and had various names for God . And the line of argument by which they establish these conclusions is of this kind : -If , say they , we find existing in various disguises , in a number of different lan- guages , the same ...
... relations , and had various names for God . And the line of argument by which they establish these conclusions is of this kind : -If , say they , we find existing in various disguises , in a number of different lan- guages , the same ...
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... relation- ship of some of the principal members of the Indo - Euro- pean or Aryan Family of Languages . The names of dead languages and dead dialects are printed in italics . L Persian branch branch German German Scandinavian Cornish ...
... relation- ship of some of the principal members of the Indo - Euro- pean or Aryan Family of Languages . The names of dead languages and dead dialects are printed in italics . L Persian branch branch German German Scandinavian Cornish ...
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... relationship of English to other members of the same family of languages . We have ascertained what the English language is , where it came from , when it arrived . We now pass on to treat of the grammar of the English language ; and ...
... relationship of English to other members of the same family of languages . We have ascertained what the English language is , where it came from , when it arrived . We now pass on to treat of the grammar of the English language ; and ...
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... relation of English words to words in other languages , and determine the channel through which they passed into As an example of these different operations , take the word mother . Of this word as it stands by itself , we can say that ...
... relation of English words to words in other languages , and determine the channel through which they passed into As an example of these different operations , take the word mother . Of this word as it stands by itself , we can say that ...
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... relation in which each word in the sentence stands to the rest . The part of grammar which treats of words when they are regarded in their relation to other words , — of words when they form parts of groups of other words , —is called ...
... relation in which each word in the sentence stands to the rest . The part of grammar which treats of words when they are regarded in their relation to other words , — of words when they form parts of groups of other words , —is called ...
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