The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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Page 18
... town , ' as in Derby , Whitby : the same word is preserved in bye - law . This ending occurs for the most part in the district once occupied by the Danes , called the Danelagh , in the north and east of England . Fell , as in ' Scawfell ...
... town , ' as in Derby , Whitby : the same word is preserved in bye - law . This ending occurs for the most part in the district once occupied by the Danes , called the Danelagh , in the north and east of England . Fell , as in ' Scawfell ...
Page 22
... 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 younger , more vigorous , and more enterprising members of the community ...
... 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 younger , more vigorous , and more enterprising members of the community ...
Page 24
... towns , kept cattle , ploughed the ground , used metals , made boats , could count up to a hundred , recognised family relations , and had various names for God . And the line of argument by which they establish these conclusions is of ...
... towns , kept cattle , ploughed the ground , used metals , made boats , could count up to a hundred , recognised family relations , and had various names for God . And the line of argument by which they establish these conclusions is of ...
Page 56
... town in his omnibus he is thinking of the City in quite other connexions than its ennobling associations with the Latin civitas . It is urged again that a phonetic system would obscure words pro- nounced alike but written differently ...
... town in his omnibus he is thinking of the City in quite other connexions than its ennobling associations with the Latin civitas . It is urged again that a phonetic system would obscure words pro- nounced alike but written differently ...
Page 91
... town , which stands in different relations to other things called enemies , walls , or circumstances . The town admitted the enemy . The enemy took the town . ' ' The walls of the O. town were destroyed . ' ' This circumstance was ...
... town , which stands in different relations to other things called enemies , walls , or circumstances . The town admitted the enemy . The enemy took the town . ' ' The walls of the O. town were destroyed . ' ' This circumstance was ...
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