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... freezing over a river - basin covered with heaped - up fragments of floating ice . Nearly all the Latin words had lost something of their form . The pestilent z was inserted in honor , favor , error xiv HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION .
... freezing over a river - basin covered with heaped - up fragments of floating ice . Nearly all the Latin words had lost something of their form . The pestilent z was inserted in honor , favor , error xiv HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION .
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Francis Henry Underwood. pestilent z was inserted in honor , favor , error , and in countless analogous cases . The simple directness of Saxon spelling was lost . The word tongue will serve as an instance . Doubtless the pronun- ciation ...
Francis Henry Underwood. pestilent z was inserted in honor , favor , error , and in countless analogous cases . The simple directness of Saxon spelling was lost . The word tongue will serve as an instance . Doubtless the pronun- ciation ...
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... honor and truth were only phrases , and the robbery of widows and orphans by the tricks which law , un- fortunately , cannot punish , were a jesting matter , it is not too much to say that the wrong that is done to our noble language is ...
... honor and truth were only phrases , and the robbery of widows and orphans by the tricks which law , un- fortunately , cannot punish , were a jesting matter , it is not too much to say that the wrong that is done to our noble language is ...
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... honor thee , I will not seek For names ; but call forth thundering Eschylus , Euripides , and Sophocles to us , Pacuvius , Accius , him of Cordova dead , To live again , to hear thy buskin tread , And shake a stage or when thy socks ...
... honor thee , I will not seek For names ; but call forth thundering Eschylus , Euripides , and Sophocles to us , Pacuvius , Accius , him of Cordova dead , To live again , to hear thy buskin tread , And shake a stage or when thy socks ...
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... honor of knighthood from Charles II . He was happily married ; but of his numerous children , only four survived him . He died October 19 , 1682. The male line in descent from him was soon extinct ; but in the female line he had ...
... honor of knighthood from Charles II . He was happily married ; but of his numerous children , only four survived him . He died October 19 , 1682. The male line in descent from him was soon extinct ; but in the female line he had ...
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