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... become so worn down as to be unrecognisable . Even German , which has retained more than any spoken language of our own day its noun inflections , shows symptoms ( in the ' new ' declension ) of a tendency towards uniformity of all case ...
... become so worn down as to be unrecognisable . Even German , which has retained more than any spoken language of our own day its noun inflections , shows symptoms ( in the ' new ' declension ) of a tendency towards uniformity of all case ...
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... become in the language of Cicero and Vergil so far worn away as to appear in many cases mere unmeaning terminations in the written language , and in all probability still less recognisable in popular pronunciation of every day life ...
... become in the language of Cicero and Vergil so far worn away as to appear in many cases mere unmeaning terminations in the written language , and in all probability still less recognisable in popular pronunciation of every day life ...
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... become more complicated , they become more and more necessary to distinctness and accuracy in language . Hence they are often used in prose where they would be omitted in poetry1 ; and it is always the case which determines the meaning ...
... become more complicated , they become more and more necessary to distinctness and accuracy in language . Hence they are often used in prose where they would be omitted in poetry1 ; and it is always the case which determines the meaning ...
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... become more or less established . The same development of definite article from demonstrative seems to have taken place in the Teutonic languages ; for in German der ( like ôs , ó ) is dubitavit , quae detractae afferunt aliquid ...
... become more or less established . The same development of definite article from demonstrative seems to have taken place in the Teutonic languages ; for in German der ( like ôs , ó ) is dubitavit , quae detractae afferunt aliquid ...
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... become organs of voice1 . 1 For a fuller description of the instruments of the human voice , see Max Müller's Lectures , Series II . Lect . iii . ( pp . 109-114 , 2nd ed . ) , and Farrar's ' Chapters on Language , ' ch . vii . pp . 84 ...
... become organs of voice1 . 1 For a fuller description of the instruments of the human voice , see Max Müller's Lectures , Series II . Lect . iii . ( pp . 109-114 , 2nd ed . ) , and Farrar's ' Chapters on Language , ' ch . vii . pp . 84 ...
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Page 21 - Persius. The Satires. With a Translation and Commentary. By John Conington, MA, late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edited by H. Nettleship, MA Second Edition.
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