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... perhaps may have to give it up altogether . For instance , such names as Neoptolemos Peisistratos , Laodikê , in Greek , or Æthelberht , Eadgar , Ælfgifu , in Old - English , at once tell their own meaning to any one who has learned the ...
... perhaps may have to give it up altogether . For instance , such names as Neoptolemos Peisistratos , Laodikê , in Greek , or Æthelberht , Eadgar , Ælfgifu , in Old - English , at once tell their own meaning to any one who has learned the ...
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... Perhaps you may ask how you ought to pronounce all these old names and other Old - English words . I cannot always tell you . I know how people wrote a thousand years back , but I never heard them talk . And we may be quite sure that ...
... Perhaps you may ask how you ought to pronounce all these old names and other Old - English words . I cannot always tell you . I know how people wrote a thousand years back , but I never heard them talk . And we may be quite sure that ...
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... perhaps some of you may not fully understand all that I may have to say about different nations and languages , so I will try to explain that a little more fully before I go on any further . You all know that all people in all parts of ...
... perhaps some of you may not fully understand all that I may have to say about different nations and languages , so I will try to explain that a little more fully before I go on any further . You all know that all people in all parts of ...
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... perhaps driven them quite out of the land ; or perhaps it has only made them subject to the conquering nation or to its king ; or perhaps only part of a nation has done this , while another part has stayed in its old land . Thus it ...
... perhaps driven them quite out of the land ; or perhaps it has only made them subject to the conquering nation or to its king ; or perhaps only part of a nation has done this , while another part has stayed in its old land . Thus it ...
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... perhaps best to say that there are only three languages spoken in Great Britain and Ireland , namely , English , Welsh , and Irish . in Now I just now said that the other languages which are spoken in Britain are much more unlike ...
... perhaps best to say that there are only three languages spoken in Great Britain and Ireland , namely , English , Welsh , and Irish . in Now I just now said that the other languages which are spoken in Britain are much more unlike ...
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