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... Latin verb Regere * . Whence in Italian you have RITTO ; and from Dirigere , DIRITTO , DRITTO : whence the French have their antient DROICT , and their modern . DROIT . The Italian DRITTO and the French DROIT being no other than the ...
... Latin verb Regere * . Whence in Italian you have RITTO ; and from Dirigere , DIRITTO , DRITTO : whence the French have their antient DROICT , and their modern . DROIT . The Italian DRITTO and the French DROIT being no other than the ...
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... Latin Lex ( i . e . Legs ) is no other than our ancestors paft participle Læg . But this intimation ( though in its proper place here ) comes before the reader can be ripe for it . In the mean time he may , if he pleases , trifle with ...
... Latin Lex ( i . e . Legs ) is no other than our ancestors paft participle Læg . But this intimation ( though in its proper place here ) comes before the reader can be ripe for it . In the mean time he may , if he pleases , trifle with ...
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... Latin word , omitting only the fequent Latin Article ; becaufe we use a precedent Article of our own . For a fimilar reafon we properly fay - The Coran , and not the Al - coran . D which which are original in our own language have been ...
... Latin word , omitting only the fequent Latin Article ; becaufe we use a precedent Article of our own . For a fimilar reafon we properly fay - The Coran , and not the Al - coran . D which which are original in our own language have been ...
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... Latin , Italian and French : for you will be inclined the more readily to concur with me , that the fame thing is equally obfervable in those words which are original in our own language . Thus- BRAND , in all its ufes , whether Fire ...
... Latin , Italian and French : for you will be inclined the more readily to concur with me , that the fame thing is equally obfervable in those words which are original in our own language . Thus- BRAND , in all its ufes , whether Fire ...
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... Latin Vanus , and Vanefco ; for the German Pfinnig ; and for the English FAINT , and FEN ; and many other words , with which I forbear at this time to pefter you ? F. And yet they have done very well without it . H. They have done , it ...
... Latin Vanus , and Vanefco ; for the German Pfinnig ; and for the English FAINT , and FEN ; and many other words , with which I forbear at this time to pefter you ? F. And yet they have done very well without it . H. They have done , it ...
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