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... Bible , than of the last traces of the Old in the Ayen- bite of Inwyt and works still more modern . We must look to York rather than to Canterbury . I may mention that , until I began to study English with thoroughness , I had no idea ...
... Bible , than of the last traces of the Old in the Ayen- bite of Inwyt and works still more modern . We must look to York rather than to Canterbury . I may mention that , until I began to study English with thoroughness , I had no idea ...
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... favours it New Forms of old words · Poem on the Carpenter's Tools 1356. Mandeville's writings Nassington at Cambridge 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 A.D. 1380. Wickliffe's version of the Bible Young one , XX Contents .
... favours it New Forms of old words · Poem on the Carpenter's Tools 1356. Mandeville's writings Nassington at Cambridge 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 A.D. 1380. Wickliffe's version of the Bible Young one , XX Contents .
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Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant. A.D. 1380. Wickliffe's version of the Bible Young one , wast , shipwreck , haply His Latin idioms bad PAGE 265 266 Purvey and ... Bible 299 300 301 A.D. 1583 . 1611 . Fulke's scorn of the Douay Contents .
Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant. A.D. 1380. Wickliffe's version of the Bible Young one , wast , shipwreck , haply His Latin idioms bad PAGE 265 266 Purvey and ... Bible 299 300 301 A.D. 1583 . 1611 . Fulke's scorn of the Douay Contents .
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... Bible PAGE 302 · Influence of our Version Romanism adverse to our Literature The Reformation unites England and Scotland The Bible a bond for the Angel cyn 1550. Wilson's criticism - Shakespere . 1590. Spenser - Our Golden Age . The ...
... Bible PAGE 302 · Influence of our Version Romanism adverse to our Literature The Reformation unites England and Scotland The Bible a bond for the Angel cyn 1550. Wilson's criticism - Shakespere . 1590. Spenser - Our Golden Age . The ...
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... Bible . It is one of the first words that ought to be revived by our best writers , who should remember their Ar - yan blood . explanation is , that the Lithuanian lika answers to the 12 The Sources of Standard English .
... Bible . It is one of the first words that ought to be revived by our best writers , who should remember their Ar - yan blood . explanation is , that the Lithuanian lika answers to the 12 The Sources of Standard English .
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adjective adverbs akin Ancren Riwle Anglian become Bible called Camden Society charyte Chaucer clipped comes compiled compound corruption Crist Danelagh Danish diction Dutch Early English Text EAST MIDLAND EAST MIDLAND DIALECT employed ending England English Text Society French words German gode Greek Handlyng Synne Harrowing of Hell Havelok hevene himm Homilies hundred Icelandic idiom King later Latin Layamon letter Lincolnshire London Lord North Northern nouns obsolete Old English old words Ormulum Orrmin Participle patt Peterborough Chronicle phrase Plural poem prefix preposition prose Psalter replaces the old rimes Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Sanscrit seen sense shires sone sound South Southern specimen speech Standard English substantive Teutonic words Thirteenth Century thou tongue translated turned tyme Tyndale verb wass Wickliffe wipp write written Yorkshire þat
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