there is a treaty of peace still extant, a thousand years old, between Charles the Bald and King Louis of Germany (dated AD 841), in which the German king takes an oath in what was the French tongue of that day, while the French king swears in the German... Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes - Side 380redigeret af - 1871Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1863 - 578 sider
...same era, and neither of these oaths would now 460 KUMBER OF EXTINCT AND LIVING LANGUAGES. CHAP. xxnl. convey a distinct meaning to any but the learned in these two countries. So also in Italy, the modern Italian cannot be traced back much beyond the time of Dante, or some six... | |
| Edward William Lewis Davies - 1875 - 358 sider
...for instance, " no English scholar," a philologist might say, " who has not specially given himself up to the study of Anglo-Saxon can interpret the documents...while " the modern Italian cannot be traced back much beyond the time of Dante, or some six centuries before our time." Yet, in spite of all these proofs... | |
| Edward William L. Davies - 1875 - 386 sider
...for instance, " no English scholar," a philologist might say, " who has not specially given himself up to the study of Anglo-Saxon can interpret the documents...while " the modern Italian cannot be traced back much beyond the time of Dante, or some six centuries before our time." Yet,*n spite of all these proofs... | |
| William McAdams - 1887 - 162 sider
...oath in what was the French tongue of that day, while the French king swears in the German of the same era; and neither of these oaths would now convey a distinct meaning to any but the most learned in those two countries. The documents would have to be translated. a A German colony in... | |
| John E. Grant - 1922 - 392 sider
...the Bald and King Louis of Germany, written in the French and German of that period (AD 841), cannot convey a distinct meaning to any but the learned in these two countries. It is an axiom more securely established than ever since the Origin of the Aryans .controversy that... | |
| Stephen D. Houston, Oswaldo Fernando Chinchilla Mazariegos, David Stuart - 2001 - 584 sider
...oath in what was the French tongue of that day, while the French king swears in the German of the same era, and neither of these oaths would now convey a...meaning to any but the learned in these two countries. So also in Italy. The modern Italian cannot be traced back much beyond the time of Dante, or some six... | |
| Charles Lyell - 2005 - 433 sider
...oath in what was the French tongue of that day, while the French king swears in the German of the same era, and neither of these oaths would now convey a...meaning to any but the learned in these two countries. So also in Italy, the modern Italian cannot be traced back much beyond the time of Dante, or some six... | |
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