Epea Pteroenta: Or The Diversions of Purley, Volume 1 |
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... merely for attempting to prevent the effusion of brother's blood and the final dismember- ment of the empire , I stand the single legal victim du- ring the contest , and the single instance of proscription after it ? But I am well ...
... merely for attempting to prevent the effusion of brother's blood and the final dismember- ment of the empire , I stand the single legal victim du- ring the contest , and the single instance of proscription after it ? But I am well ...
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... mere words in current payment . B. I should think that difficulty easily removed . Dr. Lowth in his Preface has done it ready to your hands . " Those , " he says , " who would enter more deeply into this subject , will find it fully and ...
... mere words in current payment . B. I should think that difficulty easily removed . Dr. Lowth in his Preface has done it ready to your hands . " Those , " he says , " who would enter more deeply into this subject , will find it fully and ...
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... , that the greater and more laborious part of Grammarians ( to whose genius it is always more obvious to remark a multitude of effects than to trace out one cause ) confined themselves merely to no- CH . 1. ] 21 DISTRIBUTION OF LANGUAGE .
... , that the greater and more laborious part of Grammarians ( to whose genius it is always more obvious to remark a multitude of effects than to trace out one cause ) confined themselves merely to no- CH . 1. ] 21 DISTRIBUTION OF LANGUAGE .
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... merely to no- tice the differences observable in words , without any regard to the things signified . From this time the number of parts of speech has been variously reckoned : you will find different Gram- marians contending for more ...
... merely to no- tice the differences observable in words , without any regard to the things signified . From this time the number of parts of speech has been variously reckoned : you will find different Gram- marians contending for more ...
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... mere ornamental parts of gilding , varnish , & c . Abbreviations are the wheels of language , the wings of Mercury . And though we might be dragged along without them , it would be with much difficulty , very heavily and tediously ...
... mere ornamental parts of gilding , varnish , & c . Abbreviations are the wheels of language , the wings of Mercury . And though we might be dragged along without them , it would be with much difficulty , very heavily and tediously ...
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Abbreviations adjective adune adverb Aleran amongst Anglo-Saxon antient Article authority autres boke booke Butan c'est called Cause Chaucer common Conjunctions corruption Danish denote derived Douglas dune Dutch employed English enim etiam etymologists etymology euery explained fait French give Gothic Gower Gram Grammar Grammarians Greek grete guage Harris hath haue Ibid ideas imperative Infinitive instances Italian Johnson Junius kynge language langue Latin learned Lelang Leran LEST Lord Lord Monboddo loue manner meaning merely mind modern mots neuer never noun old English opinion orationis origin particular past participle perhaps philosophers preposition Present Participle Prol pronounce Purley qu'il quæ quam quod RATHE reason Scaliger sche Scioppius sentence signification Skinner says sorts of words speech substantive sunt suppose Tale termination thare thing thou thyng tion Troylus truth unto verb Whan writing written wyfe