A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... words , of thought reduced to the form of words ; but the words need not be written ; it is enough that they be spoken or sung , or even only conceived . All that writing does is to record and preserve them . It no more endows them with ...
... words , of thought reduced to the form of words ; but the words need not be written ; it is enough that they be spoken or sung , or even only conceived . All that writing does is to record and preserve them . It no more endows them with ...
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... words in common use both in speaking and in writing , which may be taken as about 10,000 in number , pro- bably full a half are pure English ; and that of those in common colloquial use , which may be about 5,000 in all , probably four ...
... words in common use both in speaking and in writing , which may be taken as about 10,000 in number , pro- bably full a half are pure English ; and that of those in common colloquial use , which may be about 5,000 in all , probably four ...
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... words for the expression of thought , or what we may call the conversion of thought into words , is probably as much a neces- sity of the organization , physical and mental , of the human being as it is an impossibility for that of any ...
... words for the expression of thought , or what we may call the conversion of thought into words , is probably as much a neces- sity of the organization , physical and mental , of the human being as it is an impossibility for that of any ...
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... words . Those of the Celtic type are found , as just mentioned , in the West , the Latin generally in the South , the Slavonic in the East , the Tschudic in the North , and the Gothic over the whole of the central region . The chief ...
... words . Those of the Celtic type are found , as just mentioned , in the West , the Latin generally in the South , the Slavonic in the East , the Tschudic in the North , and the Gothic over the whole of the central region . The chief ...
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... words , or words of Celtic extraction , that are found in it , be they some hundreds in number , or be they one or two thousands , are still only something foreign . They are products of another seed that have shot up here and there ...
... words , or words of Celtic extraction , that are found in it , be they some hundreds in number , or be they one or two thousands , are still only something foreign . They are products of another seed that have shot up here and there ...
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