Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, & June 1861, Volume 1 |
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Page 68
... author of the Book of St. Albans , informs us that we must not use names of multitudes pro- miscuously , but we are to say , ' a congregacyon of people , a hoost of men , a felyshyppynge of yomen , and a bevy of ladyes ; we must speak ...
... author of the Book of St. Albans , informs us that we must not use names of multitudes pro- miscuously , but we are to say , ' a congregacyon of people , a hoost of men , a felyshyppynge of yomen , and a bevy of ladyes ; we must speak ...
Page 100
... author of the first practical grammar , was by no means the first ' professeur de langue ' who settled at Rome . At his time Greek was more generally spoken at Rome than French is now spoken in London . The children of gentlemen learnt ...
... author of the first practical grammar , was by no means the first ' professeur de langue ' who settled at Rome . At his time Greek was more generally spoken at Rome than French is now spoken in London . The children of gentlemen learnt ...
Page 109
... authors of Greece , yet their main object was language as such . When one of the first grammarians of the day , Crates of Pergamus , was sent to Rome as ambassador of king Attalus , he was received with the greatest distinction by all ...
... authors of Greece , yet their main object was language as such . When one of the first grammarians of the day , Crates of Pergamus , was sent to Rome as ambassador of king Attalus , he was received with the greatest distinction by all ...
Page 126
... author . Thus órd moncynnes , origo humani generis , Cd . 55. Hence , the meaning of lord , the Anglo - Saxon hláf - órd , loaf or bread origin , the origin , cause , or author of bread or support . ' Lady is from Anglo - Saxon hlæf ...
... author . Thus órd moncynnes , origo humani generis , Cd . 55. Hence , the meaning of lord , the Anglo - Saxon hláf - órd , loaf or bread origin , the origin , cause , or author of bread or support . ' Lady is from Anglo - Saxon hlæf ...
Page 138
... author ( Oratio Dominica L diversis linguis , cura H. Megiseri , Francofurti , 1593 , 8vo . ) . 18 At the beginning of the seventeenth century was published Trésor de l'Histoire des Langues de cet Univers , par Claude Duret , seconde ...
... author ( Oratio Dominica L diversis linguis , cura H. Megiseri , Francofurti , 1593 , 8vo . ) . 18 At the beginning of the seventeenth century was published Trésor de l'Histoire des Langues de cet Univers , par Claude Duret , seconde ...
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Page 28 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.