The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Sven-Erik Täckmark |
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... language , but profound in- sight into the semantic roots of language generally - and especially into the mythological , historical , and psycho- logical background of the vernaculars as they developed in the European perspective ...
... language , but profound in- sight into the semantic roots of language generally - and especially into the mythological , historical , and psycho- logical background of the vernaculars as they developed in the European perspective ...
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... languages than we are and I fancy our neigh- bours the French are about as bad at it as we are ! Here in these mountains ... language I fear wd strike you as pathetic ; so clumsy they are ! I get on better with read- ing it as I've got a ...
... languages than we are and I fancy our neigh- bours the French are about as bad at it as we are ! Here in these mountains ... language I fear wd strike you as pathetic ; so clumsy they are ! I get on better with read- ing it as I've got a ...
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... languages - I was hopeless at French at school & never learnt German & as for Latin its gone quite out of my head ... language ... & the pronunciation is totally beyond me . . But I can read the Welsh New Testament pretty easily but ...
... languages - I was hopeless at French at school & never learnt German & as for Latin its gone quite out of my head ... language ... & the pronunciation is totally beyond me . . But I can read the Welsh New Testament pretty easily but ...
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