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I had lived long enough in England to know that the peculiar difficulties arising
from my imperfect knowledge of the language would be more than balanced by
the forbearance of an English audience , and I had such perfect faith in my
subject ...
I had lived long enough in England to know that the peculiar difficulties arising
from my imperfect knowledge of the language would be more than balanced by
the forbearance of an English audience , and I had such perfect faith in my
subject ...
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... that in English moon has been changed into a feminine , and sun into a
masculine . It was a most unlucky assertion which Mr. Harris made in his Hermes
, that all nations ascribe to the sun a masculine , and to the moon a feminine
gender .
... that in English moon has been changed into a feminine , and sun into a
masculine . It was a most unlucky assertion which Mr. Harris made in his Hermes
, that all nations ascribe to the sun a masculine , and to the moon a feminine
gender .
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The language of Alfred is so different from the English of the present day that we
have to study it in the same manner as we study Greek and Latin . We can read
Milton and Bacon , Shakespeare and Hooker ; we can make out Wycliffe and ...
The language of Alfred is so different from the English of the present day that we
have to study it in the same manner as we study Greek and Latin . We can read
Milton and Bacon , Shakespeare and Hooker ; we can make out Wycliffe and ...
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Thus Roome and chaney , layloc and goold , have but lately been driven from the
stage by Rome , china , 1 Lectures on the English Language , by G. P. Marsh :
New York , 1860 , p . 263 and 630. These lectures embody the result of much ...
Thus Roome and chaney , layloc and goold , have but lately been driven from the
stage by Rome , china , 1 Lectures on the English Language , by G. P. Marsh :
New York , 1860 , p . 263 and 630. These lectures embody the result of much ...
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Force , in the sense of a waterfall , and gill , in the sense of a rocky ravine , were
not used in classical English before Wordsworth . Handbook , 2 though an old
Anglo - Saxon word , has but lately taken the place of manual , and a number of ...
Force , in the sense of a waterfall , and gill , in the sense of a rocky ravine , were
not used in classical English before Wordsworth . Handbook , 2 though an old
Anglo - Saxon word , has but lately taken the place of manual , and a number of ...
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| Title | Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Volume 1 Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Friedrich Max Müller |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | C. Scribner, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2009 |
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