Principles of English Etymology: The native element

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Clarendon Press, 1887
 

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Sivu 543 - Twiss. The Law of Nations considered as Independent Political Communities. By Sir Travers Twiss, DCL Part I. On the Rights and Duties of Nations in time of Peace. New Edition. 8vo. 155. Part II. On the Rights and Duties of Nations in time of War.
Sivu 497 - Our maker therfore at these dayes shall not follow Piers plowman nor Gower nor Lydgate nor yet Chaucer, for their language is now out of vse with vs...
Sivu 20 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Sivu 480 - A third of the merchants and manufacturers of the ruined city are said to have found a refuge on the banks of the Thames. The export trade to Flanders died away as London developed into the general mart of Europe, where the gold and sugar of the New World were found side by side with the cotton of India, the silks of the East, and the woollen stuffs of England itself.
Sivu 497 - Ye shall therefore take the vsuall speach of the Court, and that of London and the shires lying about London within Ix. myles, and not much aboue.
Sivu 100 - Bulgarian, into which Cyrillus and Methodius translated the Bible, in the middle of the ninth century. This is still the authorised version * of the Bible for the whole Slavonic race : and to the student of the Slavonic languages it is what Gothic is to the student of German. The modern Bulgarian, on the contrary, as far as grammatical forms are concerned, is the most reduced among the Slavonic...
Sivu 388 - very apt to desert and drop off in a long march.
Sivu 329 - ... to say, that, speaking generally, it represents a Victorian pronunciation of popular words by means of symbols imperfectly adapted to an Elizabethan pronunciation ; the symbols themselves being mainly due to the Anglo-French scribes, of the Plantagenet period, whose system was meant to be fonetic.
Sivu 18 - tis a groom indeed, A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.
Sivu 320 - ... to the present day, and there is, doubtless, a large majority among us who believe such spellings to be correct. So easy is it for writers to be misled by paying too great a regard to Latin spelling, and so few there are who are likely to take the trouble of ascertaining all the historical facts. " Most curious of all is the fate of the word fault. In Old French and Middle...

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