Origins of the English People and the English LanguageD. Appleton, 1888 - 658 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... learned work . Supposing the read- er to be familiar with at least the outlines of early English history , we will not follow it throughout its continuity , but rather dwell on those great epochs of national strug- gle in which we find ...
... learned work . Supposing the read- er to be familiar with at least the outlines of early English history , we will not follow it throughout its continuity , but rather dwell on those great epochs of national strug- gle in which we find ...
Pagina xiv
... learned men from abroad to come as teachers to England - The studies that were cultivated in those ages - Alcuin and his methods - Dialectic differences in early Eng- lish - Like differences still existing in cognate idioms - Friesian ...
... learned men from abroad to come as teachers to England - The studies that were cultivated in those ages - Alcuin and his methods - Dialectic differences in early Eng- lish - Like differences still existing in cognate idioms - Friesian ...
Pagina 6
... learned to build regu- lar towns , though their kinsmen in Gaul had already founded cities with walls , and streets , and market - places . What they called a town , or dunum , was still no more than a refuge for times of war , a ...
... learned to build regu- lar towns , though their kinsmen in Gaul had already founded cities with walls , and streets , and market - places . What they called a town , or dunum , was still no more than a refuge for times of war , a ...
Pagina 7
... learned the art of using alternate colors for the warp and woof , so as to bring out a pattern of stripes and squares . The cloth , says Diodorus , was covered with an infinite number of little squares and lines , as if it had been ...
... learned the art of using alternate colors for the warp and woof , so as to bring out a pattern of stripes and squares . The cloth , says Diodorus , was covered with an infinite number of little squares and lines , as if it had been ...
Pagina 10
... learned to make a separation of the pasture and arable land , and to apply the manures which were appropriate to each kind of field . Their stock was much the same as that which their successors used for many years afterward ; their ...
... learned to make a separation of the pasture and arable land , and to apply the manures which were appropriate to each kind of field . Their stock was much the same as that which their successors used for many years afterward ; their ...
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Pagina 616 - Eia Mater, fons amoris, me sentire vim doloris fac, ut tecum lugeam. Fac ut ardeat cor meum in amando Christum Deum ut sibi complaceam.
Pagina 420 - But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet...
Pagina 90 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
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Pagina 387 - My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon ; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is : for there is no more bread in the city.
Pagina 366 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
Pagina 419 - And when he came to himself, he said, how many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger...
Pagina 658 - ... ways, have multiplied the conveniences of life and ministered to the happiness of our race ; to describe the rise and progress of that long series of mechanical inventions and discoveries which is now the admiration of the world, and our just pride and boast ; to tell how, under the benign influence of liberty and peace, there sprang up, in the course of a single century, a prosperity unparalleled in the annals of human affairs. "The pledge given by Mr. McMaster, that 'the history of the people...
Pagina 369 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Pagina 633 - Parquoy c'est pareille folie de pleurer de ce que d'icy à cent ans nous ne vivrons pas , que de pleurer de ce que nous ne vivions pas il ya cent ans.