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... ENGLISH PROPER NAMES.— " It was permitted to Homer to nod , and M. Victor Hugo must be allowed his nap . The great novelist is not quite so happy or successful upon the English ground he has newly broken in L'Homme qui Rit as he might ...
... ENGLISH PROPER NAMES.— " It was permitted to Homer to nod , and M. Victor Hugo must be allowed his nap . The great novelist is not quite so happy or successful upon the English ground he has newly broken in L'Homme qui Rit as he might ...
Side 12
... English writers for calling the Bishop of Man the Bishop of Sodor and Man , as the Sudereys no longer belong to the see of Man . The Hæbudæ islands , he says , were in the middle ages called " Sodorenses , " from a corruption of the ...
... English writers for calling the Bishop of Man the Bishop of Sodor and Man , as the Sudereys no longer belong to the see of Man . The Hæbudæ islands , he says , were in the middle ages called " Sodorenses , " from a corruption of the ...
Side 26
... English tongue that Layamon's Brut , written probably about 1205 , a poem of about 30,000 lines , contains fewer than fifty words derived from the Norman - French language . This assertion is almost always based on the authority of Sir ...
... English tongue that Layamon's Brut , written probably about 1205 , a poem of about 30,000 lines , contains fewer than fifty words derived from the Norman - French language . This assertion is almost always based on the authority of Sir ...
Side 27
... English . Hence we may conclude that candel , castel , ancor or ancer , & c . , were directly derived from the Latin , but that canoun , legiun , machunes , honur , & c . , had received a certain Norman modification . On the whole ...
... English . Hence we may conclude that candel , castel , ancor or ancer , & c . , were directly derived from the Latin , but that canoun , legiun , machunes , honur , & c . , had received a certain Norman modification . On the whole ...
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... English . " There is a somewhat extended notice of Mas- sey's work in D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature , under the heading " The History of Writing- Masters , " chiefly criticising the pretensions of the craft to be considered ...
... English . " There is a somewhat extended notice of Mas- sey's work in D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature , under the heading " The History of Writing- Masters , " chiefly criticising the pretensions of the craft to be considered ...
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