Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Supplementary volLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 |
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... Saxon to modern English , and the extent to which the former modifies , or rather consti- tutes , the latter . It was shown that whether we look at a numerical comparison alone , or at the classes of words which Anglo - Saxon has given ...
... Saxon to modern English , and the extent to which the former modifies , or rather consti- tutes , the latter . It was shown that whether we look at a numerical comparison alone , or at the classes of words which Anglo - Saxon has given ...
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... Saxon was one of the numerous off- shoots from the prolific stock of Gothic languages . Like the modern German , it had far more various and complicated inflections of its articles , pronouns , and adjectives , than the modern English ...
... Saxon was one of the numerous off- shoots from the prolific stock of Gothic languages . Like the modern German , it had far more various and complicated inflections of its articles , pronouns , and adjectives , than the modern English ...
Side 230
... Saxon appellations . The word Kent ( Cantium ) is an exception ; nor is it difficult to see why . The Anglo - Saxons did not make their first appearance as invaders , but ostensibly to assist the British against the Northern marauders ...
... Saxon appellations . The word Kent ( Cantium ) is an exception ; nor is it difficult to see why . The Anglo - Saxons did not make their first appearance as invaders , but ostensibly to assist the British against the Northern marauders ...
Side 231
... Saxon would have manifested the same facility of combination as the modern German , the same self - derived copious- ness , the same power of evolving out of its own . elements compound words for expressing new ideas . Elfric , in his Saxon ...
... Saxon would have manifested the same facility of combination as the modern German , the same self - derived copious- ness , the same power of evolving out of its own . elements compound words for expressing new ideas . Elfric , in his Saxon ...
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... Saxon was written , we are doubtless to attribute those infinite varieties of orthography , with which the Anglo - Saxon student is at first so much perplexed . These , however , are not the sole cause of such varieties . There were ...
... Saxon was written , we are doubtless to attribute those infinite varieties of orthography , with which the Anglo - Saxon student is at first so much perplexed . These , however , are not the sole cause of such varieties . There were ...
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Side 58 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
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Side 277 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Side 7 - The Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament : Being an Attempt at a Verbal Connexion between the Greek and the English Texts ; including a Concordance to the Proper Names, with Indexes, GreekEnglish and English-Greek. New Edition, with a new Index. Royal 8vo. price 42s. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance...
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Side 20 - Readings for a Month preparatory to Confirmation : Compiled from the Works of Writers of the Early and of the English Church. Fcp.
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Side 295 - Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, from which its light had long vanished, and begins now anew its course of regularly adjusted action round the centre of unity, the source of jurisdiction, of light and of vigour.
Side 93 - I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind, or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists, or by what motions of our spirits, or alterations of our bodies, we come to have any sensation by our organs, or any ideas in our understandings; and whether those ideas do, in their formation, any or all of them, depend on matter or no.
Side 19 - SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life, from 1733 to 1749. as written in his own Diary. Edited by Miss JANE PORTER.