The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin and Development : Designed for Use in Colleges and Schools |
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... , it is probable that England would never have had an independent existence . The noble language of Milton and Burke would have remained a rustic dialect , without a literature , LANGUAGE BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST . 51.
... , it is probable that England would never have had an independent existence . The noble language of Milton and Burke would have remained a rustic dialect , without a literature , LANGUAGE BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST . 51.
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... existence . The most famous of the remaining fragments of this translation is the Codex Argenteus , or Sil- ver Book , so called from being transmitted to us in letters of a silver hue . The words appear to be formed on vellum by ...
... existence . The most famous of the remaining fragments of this translation is the Codex Argenteus , or Sil- ver Book , so called from being transmitted to us in letters of a silver hue . The words appear to be formed on vellum by ...
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... existence of a Genitive Plural in -r or -ra : Heora , Theirs ; Aller , of All , in contradistinction to the Middle English . This with substantives and adjectives is less com- mon . 4. The substitution of Heo for They , of Heora for ...
... existence of a Genitive Plural in -r or -ra : Heora , Theirs ; Aller , of All , in contradistinction to the Middle English . This with substantives and adjectives is less com- mon . 4. The substitution of Heo for They , of Heora for ...
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... existence of an English Inflection proves that the word to which it belongs is English , although its absence does not prove the contrary . That the word anemone is En- " glish ( and consequently pronounced anem'one ) , we know 144 ...
... existence of an English Inflection proves that the word to which it belongs is English , although its absence does not prove the contrary . That the word anemone is En- " glish ( and consequently pronounced anem'one ) , we know 144 ...
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... existence of ƒ and q shows that the Italian al- phabets were imported from the original Phoenician , or the old Greek ; these letters , in the second stage of the Greek alphabet , having been ejected . The first alphabet imported into ...
... existence of ƒ and q shows that the Italian al- phabets were imported from the original Phoenician , or the old Greek ; these letters , in the second stage of the Greek alphabet , having been ejected . The first alphabet imported into ...
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accent Accusative adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo Anglo-Sax Anglo-Saxon called combination common compound Conjugation conjunction consonant copula Danish Dative declension denotes derived dialects Diphthong elementary sound English language equivalent etymological express Feminine French Future Perfect Tense Gender Genitive German glish Gothic Gothic languages Grammar Greek guage Hence idea Infinitive Mode inflection king Latin Latin language letter logical loved Masculine Maso-Gothic meaning natural Nominative Note noun object Old English origin Orthoepy Orthography Participle Past Tense Perfect Tense Plural plural number preceding predicate prefix Present Perfect Present Tense Preterite pronunciation proposition relation represents root RULE Sanscrit Saxon sense sentence simple Singular sometimes speak speech spelling spoken Subjunctive Substantive suffix superlative syllable Syntax taken term termination Teutonic thee thine thing thou tion tive tongue transitive verb verb vowel whence words writing
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Page 617 - I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his droop'd head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 585 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 184 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 609 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great first Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Page 132 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, "With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 132 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 656 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
Page 581 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 61 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 624 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.