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... Hence I have been obliged to refer to some of the earlier forms of speech , and in particular to that Old English which was spoken by our Anglo - Saxon ancestors . The prominence accorded to O.E. might be justified on the ground that it ...
... Hence I have been obliged to refer to some of the earlier forms of speech , and in particular to that Old English which was spoken by our Anglo - Saxon ancestors . The prominence accorded to O.E. might be justified on the ground that it ...
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... Language does not grow in accordance with the rules of grammarians , but the rules of grammarians are framed in accordance with what happens to be the most established form of linguistic growth . Hence their rules PREFACE . vii.
... Language does not grow in accordance with the rules of grammarians , but the rules of grammarians are framed in accordance with what happens to be the most established form of linguistic growth . Hence their rules PREFACE . vii.
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... Hence their rules have no necessary connection with the principles on which a living speech is developed , but are simply a register of the constructions in use for the time being amongst the most cultivated sections of a community ...
... Hence their rules have no necessary connection with the principles on which a living speech is developed , but are simply a register of the constructions in use for the time being amongst the most cultivated sections of a community ...
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... Hence if we speak of things called ' quadrupeds ' we create an enormously larger class of ' not quadrupeds ' ; if of ' swift things ' we create a class of ' not swift things ' ; if of ' things in the sky , ' we create a class of ...
... Hence if we speak of things called ' quadrupeds ' we create an enormously larger class of ' not quadrupeds ' ; if of ' swift things ' we create a class of ' not swift things ' ; if of ' things in the sky , ' we create a class of ...
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... Hence , when we say that the Subject is included in a Predicate marked by some quality or circum- stance , it is the same thing as saying that we predicate the said quality or circumstance of the subject . Thus if I include ' horses ...
... Hence , when we say that the Subject is included in a Predicate marked by some quality or circum- stance , it is the same thing as saying that we predicate the said quality or circumstance of the subject . Thus if I include ' horses ...
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