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... speech with a succession of preceding forms out of which it has sprung we are to say that an old language has died and a new one come into existence ; but , at any rate , even when the language is admitted to be the same , it not ...
... speech with a succession of preceding forms out of which it has sprung we are to say that an old language has died and a new one come into existence ; but , at any rate , even when the language is admitted to be the same , it not ...
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... speech , 5,000 in literary composition ) compose all the funda- mental framework of the language , all that may be called its skeleton or bony structure , and also perhaps the better part of its muscular tissue . " The portion of our ...
... speech , 5,000 in literary composition ) compose all the funda- mental framework of the language , all that may be called its skeleton or bony structure , and also perhaps the better part of its muscular tissue . " The portion of our ...
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... to Anne Boleyn Sackville : -Induction ; Sorrow 436 • 440 Old Age 29 Udall ' : - Ralph Roister Doister 441 . 447 Gammer Gurton's Needle : -Speech of Diccon the Bedlam 451 PAGE Spenser : -Shepherd's Calendar ; Tale of the Oak xvi SPECIMENS .
... to Anne Boleyn Sackville : -Induction ; Sorrow 436 • 440 Old Age 29 Udall ' : - Ralph Roister Doister 441 . 447 Gammer Gurton's Needle : -Speech of Diccon the Bedlam 451 PAGE Spenser : -Shepherd's Calendar ; Tale of the Oak xvi SPECIMENS .
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... speech when used absolutely , or without qualification , as meaning always only language proper or spoken language , which is what these words , and the only correspond- ing ones probably in all languages , do mean etymologically- and ...
... speech when used absolutely , or without qualification , as meaning always only language proper or spoken language , which is what these words , and the only correspond- ing ones probably in all languages , do mean etymologically- and ...
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... speech . In some countries , in addition to the common tongue , there has been another known only to the priesthood : in some the men have had a language of their own , which the women were not permitted to speak or to learn . It is ...
... speech . In some countries , in addition to the common tongue , there has been another known only to the priesthood : in some the men have had a language of their own , which the women were not permitted to speak or to learn . It is ...
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