English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms. With a History of Its Origin and Development. Designed for Use in Colleges and SchoolsHarper, 1855 - 754 pages |
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... commensurate with the increasing numbers who speak and write that language as their mother - tongue . W. C. F. Amherst , September , 1855 . PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . In preparing this work X PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION .
... commensurate with the increasing numbers who speak and write that language as their mother - tongue . W. C. F. Amherst , September , 1855 . PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . In preparing this work X PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION .
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... tongue . 99 Ought the English language , as a study , to be con- fined to the lower schools , and excluded from col- leges ? Is there not in its matter and in its forms ; in its historical elements and relations ; in its grammat- ical ...
... tongue . 99 Ought the English language , as a study , to be con- fined to the lower schools , and excluded from col- leges ? Is there not in its matter and in its forms ; in its historical elements and relations ; in its grammat- ical ...
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... tongue of the country has become greatly vitiated , depraved , and corrupted by the style of our Congressional debates . " And the other , alluding to the debates in the British House of Com- mons , in courteous response , remarked ...
... tongue of the country has become greatly vitiated , depraved , and corrupted by the style of our Congressional debates . " And the other , alluding to the debates in the British House of Com- mons , in courteous response , remarked ...
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... Tongues 214 CHAPTER IV . THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET ACCOUNTS FOR ITS DEFECTS . 215. Historical Defects 216. Invention of Letters .. 217. Hebrew Alphabet .. 218. Greek Alphabet 217 219. Roman Alphabet ... 219 217 220. Anglo ...
... Tongues 214 CHAPTER IV . THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET ACCOUNTS FOR ITS DEFECTS . 215. Historical Defects 216. Invention of Letters .. 217. Hebrew Alphabet .. 218. Greek Alphabet 217 219. Roman Alphabet ... 219 217 220. Anglo ...
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... tongue , through the French word langage , speech , is the utterance of articulate sounds of the human voice for expressing the thoughts and emotions of the human mind . These articulate sounds are , to the hearer , signs of what is in ...
... tongue , through the French word langage , speech , is the utterance of articulate sounds of the human voice for expressing the thoughts and emotions of the human mind . These articulate sounds are , to the hearer , signs of what is in ...
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accent adjective ancient Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon branch breath called Celtic Celts character classification combination common Compose a sentence compound Conquest CONSONANT SOUNDS consonantal elements consonantal sounds Danish dative denotes dialect Diphthong diversities elementary sound England English language etymological euphony express family of languages Finnic French Frisians Gaelic German Give glish Gothic language grammar Greek GRIMM's law guage Icelandic Improper Diphthong Italian kings Latin language Latin words long sound Low Germanic means mind mouth nasal nations natural Norman Norman Conquest Norman-French nouns objects origin orthoepy orthography peculiarities Philippe de Thaun phonetic elements plural pronounced pronunciation QUESTIONS UNDER CHAPTER race relation represented Roman Sanscrit Saxon Scandinavian Shemitic short sound Slavonic sometimes sonant SPECIMEN spoken language stock of languages surd syllable term Teutonic th in thin thee things thou tion tongue verbs vocal voice vowel vowel sounds Welsh word derived καὶ
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Page 57 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...