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... things in the smaller . Further than this the two works have no connexion . The smaller is not an abridgement of the greater , neither is the greater an expansion of the smaller . They are two inde- pendent narratives written at ...
... things in the smaller . Further than this the two works have no connexion . The smaller is not an abridgement of the greater , neither is the greater an expansion of the smaller . They are two inde- pendent narratives written at ...
Page xiv
... things have helped to make the Old - English names seem more strange and un- couth than they need be . One is that most of them have gone out of use , so that the foreign names are now more familiar . The other is that , oddly enough ...
... things have helped to make the Old - English names seem more strange and un- couth than they need be . One is that most of them have gone out of use , so that the foreign names are now more familiar . The other is that , oddly enough ...
Page xvi
... things which seem pretty plain . E before a vowel at the beginning of words , as Eadweard , Eoforwic , was clearly sounded like y or the High - Dutch j . Thus we still write York , and Yedward is found in Shakespeare , and Earl is in ...
... things which seem pretty plain . E before a vowel at the beginning of words , as Eadweard , Eoforwic , was clearly sounded like y or the High - Dutch j . Thus we still write York , and Yedward is found in Shakespeare , and Earl is in ...
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... things . Thus a Frenchman , a German , and an Englishman will often call the same things by quite different names . Thus what we call a horse a Frenchman will call cheval , and a German will call it Pferd or Ross . But some languages ...
... things . Thus a Frenchman , a German , and an Englishman will often call the same things by quite different names . Thus what we call a horse a Frenchman will call cheval , and a German will call it Pferd or Ross . But some languages ...
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... things with such tools . After them came a time when men had the use of bronze , and , last of all , the use of iron , as we have now . You may have heard of buildings , if we may call them buildings , made of great rough stones , which ...
... things with such tools . After them came a time when men had the use of bronze , and , last of all , the use of iron , as we have now . You may have heard of buildings , if we may call them buildings , made of great rough stones , which ...
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